 Whether Tommy Prothro helped sway Oregon State on the positives of his former employer is unknown, but Oregon State was the only team to break rank and vote with the slush fund teams to keep UCLA a member of the Pacific Coast Conference.In 1957, for the second consecutive year, Oregon State played its first three games outside of Corvallis.The first game pitted the #13 Beavers and the #19 Trojans in Portland, Oregon.