44 OregonStater.org OSU SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES; POW-WOW DANCER: JON BOECKENSTEDT 1961–62 Men’s Basketball 1963–64 Men’s Basketball 1971–72 Wrestling 1973–74 Men’s Basketball The largest crowd in Gill Coliseum history — 11,709 — wedges itself into the building to watch Oregon State beat Oregon 82-66. Oregon State pounds two-time defending NCAA champion Cincinnati 82-61, toppling the nation’s No. 4-ranked team before a crowd of 10,597. Oregon State heavyweight Jim Hagen takes on Iowa State’s Chris Taylor, a 400-pounder who would be that summer’s Olympic bronze medalist. Hagen is beaten in a match that attracts nearly 10,000 fans. Oregon State ends No. 1 UCLA’s 59-game Pacific-8 win streak with a 61-57 win in front of 10,376 fans. Later that season, Oregon Head Coach Dick Harter trips OSU cheerleader Rick Coutin as he carries the Chancellor’s Trophy past Oregon’s bench near the end of the Beavers’ 81-74 win. (The coach later wrote Coutin an apology.) Clockwise from top left: A contestant prepares for the 1974 Turtle Derby; students registering for classes in 1968; the first commencement to take place in Gill in 1950; soon-to-be graduates waiting on the ramps before their ceremony in 1954; dancers at the annual Square Dance Jamboree in 1950; a dancer in the 44th annual Klatowa Ina Competition Pow-Wow in 2023; Linus Pauling talks with Fred Milton and Mike Smith, president of the Black Student Union, during the Centennial Lecture walk-in of 1969.
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