Oregon State University Alumni Association (OSUAA)

09/08/2026

🤗 Reser Stadium feels a lot like home. 🧡🖤

The Beavers’ home opener in Corvallis is coming soon, and before kickoff, the CH2M HILL Alumni Center is 📍 OSUAA TAILGATE TOWN.

Join the pregame fun on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to all Beaver fans.

It’s the Red Raiders’ first time hosted on Beaver turf. Let’s show them what Beaver Nation’s spirit looks like.

Get details at https://bit.ly/2026TailgateTownSept12.

Cheering from home? Catch the game on CBS.

09/03/2026

As Beaver Believers everywhere get ready for football’s return this Saturday, we’re looking back at a time when following the action from afar took a little more ingenuity.

In 1924, Oregon Agricultural College fans packed the Men’s Gymnasium — now Langton Hall — for a game against Whitman College, played in Pendleton. The first college football game to be broadcast on television was still 15 years away. So how did fans keep up? Play-by-play reports were sent via telegraph to a 10-by-15-foot electronic board at the front of the room.

Admission was 50 cents. Beavers won 41-0.

A century later, the technology has changed, but the determination to follow the game has not. This Saturday, Oregon State opens the 2026 season on the road against Houston. Kickoff is at 9 a.m. on ESPN.

Go Beavs!



Photo by: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center

09/03/2026

Houston Beavers, we’re coming your way! 🖤

Join OSU fans for a spirited meetup the night before the Beavs take on the Houston Cougars 🌮🎱

📍 Social B**r Garden, 3101 San Jacinto St., Houston
📅 Friday, Sept. 4
⏰ 6–8 p.m. CT

Let’s rally and show Houston what Beaver Nation is all about. Go Beavs!

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2026TailgateTownSept4

09/02/2026

🧡 The first home game is just around the corner. What was your first OSU football game?

Join us at the first home game on Sept. 12: https://beav.es/Sept12

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

The Fall 2026 Oregon Stater is out now. 🍁🍂

Climb into the canopy of Oregon State’s newly accredited campus arboretum, follow an OSU-led team searching for clues to Earth’s climate history in ancient ice and get to know the new Pac-12.

Also inside: How one alumna helped bring NASA’s newest images of the moon back to Earth, and much more!

Explore the new issue at OregonStater.org.



Photos by: Darryl Lai, Kai Casey, Brian Horne, Intel, Nasa,
Map Illustration by:

09/01/2026

A celebration 10 years in the making!

Join Beaver Believers from across Oregon State on Saturday, Oct. 17 (psst: that’s Homecoming and Family Weekend 🎉) to celebrate a decade of the Multicultural Alumni and Friends Tailgater!

Save your spot today and get ready to celebrate with:

🍴 Delectable bites and sips from alumni- and community-owned businesses, including a free churro from alumni-owned Churros Locos.
🎤 Live entertainment and festive music.
🦫 Interactive activities, giveaways and fun for all ages.

Registration is now open at https://bit.ly/MCTailgater26

08/26/2026

53 days and counting until OSU Homecoming 2026! 🦫 
 
Get ready to reunite with Beaver Nation.  
🗓️ Oct. 15-18, 2026 | Corvallis, Oregon 
 
This year, Homecoming teams up with Fall Family Weekend for one incredible experience. 
 
Follow the full calendar and plan your trip to Corvallis at ForOregonState.org/Homecoming.  
 

08/22/2026

Do you remember your first Benny sighting? 
 
The Beaver wasn’t always Oregon State’s mascot. Long before Benny and Bernice entertained crowds, Oregon State’s mascots looked very different. 
 
Early on, the university’s athletic teams were known as the Aggies and, briefly, the Orangemen. Attempts to settle on a mascot also met with mixed success. There was a coyote named “Jimmie” and even a steadfast fan known as “Doc Bell.”  
 
School sentiment eventually settled on the Beavers as the athletics teams’ identity. And in 1916, the yearbook took that name.  (Soon after, in 1925, Oregon debuted its first official state flag, with the beaver on one side. As the Oregonian said then, “its appropriateness is intensified also by its commonly accepted attributes. It is the universal symbol of thrift and industry and constructive endeavor — qualities as essential now as ever.”) 
 
Once that was settled, a series of live beavers, “Bevo” and “Billy,” acted as early mascots. Later, the rally squad started hauling a beaver statue on wheels into games. Finally, in 1952, student Ken Austin appeared in a handmade beaver costume at a school rally, marking the beginning of the Benny Beaver tradition we know today. 
 


Photo: OSU Special Collections and Archives