Oregon State safety Harvey Whiten lay motionless on the field for 15 minutes in the second quarter Saturday.
After Oregon’s second touchdown of the day, Whiten returned the ensuing kickoff for 16 yards before linebacker Jerry Matson stepped in front of Whiten and leveled him.
“Anytime you see a teammate laying on the field like that, it’s not a good sight,” Oregon State safety Lawrence Turner said. “We already had that happen to us. Just to hear the guy on the PA say he was all right made us feel a lot better.”
Whiten was taken off the field on a stretcher and then to Sacred Heart Medical Center. During the third quarter, public address announcer Don Essig told the crowd that “all arms and legs are in motion.” Whiten returned to the field and joined his teammates with two minutes left in the game after it was determined he suffered a concussion.
“We were glad to see him back on the field at the end,” head coach Mike Riley said.
Earlier this season, cornerback Jamaal Jackson suffered a spinal bruise during a practice.
Beavers’ kicker Kirk Yliniemi suffered a sprained ankle in the third quarter Saturday. He was side-armed by Oregon’s Kenny Washington on Washington’s 48-yard kickoff return. Yliniemi tumbled to the ground as a few teammates hopped over him while in pursuit of Washington.
Sophomore John Dailey handled kicking duties for the rest of the game. Linebacker Jonathan Pollard also sprained an ankle in the game.

Officiating complaints
After Riley left Oregon State’s postgame interview room, the players began the complaints.
After telling reporters what went wrong on the Oregon State side of the football, where the Beavers had averaged 461 offensive yards per game but had 327 on Saturday, linebacker Richard Seigler and tight end Tim Euhus started taking shots at the game’s officiating.
“There’s no way Oregon State could put a run together when calls like that are made,” Euhus said. “If someone calls it the wrong way and some of those calls are made up.”
The Beavers finished the game with nine penalties for 86 yards while Oregon was called for two that totaled 30 yards.
“I’m not going to comment on (the officiating) because that’s something that I can’t change,” Seigler said. “But I think everybody could definitely see that the flags were flying in only one direction and that was toward the Beavers.
“You know, they were out there celebrating and taunting and doing whatever they wanted, and the refs seemed to be not calling anything. For some reason, it’s been like that my whole career at Oregon State.”

Rewriting lists
Quarterback Derek Anderson broke his own single-season total offense and single-season passing yardage records with 271 passing yards and 233 total offensive yards Saturday.
Anderson beat his previous record of 3,082 offensive yards with a new mark of 3,154 yards. He also eclipsed his 2002 record of 3,313 passing yards with 3,250 this season.

Beavers go bowling
A postseason bowl game destination is currently unknown for the bowl-eligible Beavers, but the likely place for Oregon State is the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 24.