{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Short description|American football player (1919–2005)}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Quentin Greenough | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|01|13}} | birth_place = Porterville, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|08|01|1919|01|13}} | death_place = Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. | alma_mater = Oregon State | player_years1 = 1940–41 | player_team1 = Oregon State | player_positions = Center | coach_years1 = 1946–1948 | coach_team1 = Oregon State (assistant) | awards = {{ubl|Oregon Sports Hall of Fame (1981) *Oregon State University Hall of Fame (1991) }} | module ={{Infobox military person |embed = yes |allegiance = United States |branch = US Coast Guard |spouse = Rae Ardis DeMoss |other_work = Coach, business owner }} }} '''Quentin Carl Greenough''' (January 13, 1919 – August 1, 2005) was an American football player.
==Football career== Greenough was born in Porterville, California and later moved to San Gabriel, California. He attended Alhambra High School, then enrolled at Oregon State College (later Oregon State University) where he became the starting center.<ref name=gazette>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/08/06/news/obituaries/satobi02.txt|title=Obituary: Quentin Greenough|work=Corvallis Gazette-Times|date=October 20, 2004|access-date=November 7, 2007}}</ref> In the 1941 season, he was credited with leading Oregon State's 10–0 defensive effort against Stanford, which behind its new T-formation had not lost a game since 1939.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=64wRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5041,5215555&dq=stanford+football&hl=en Clark Shaughnessy Says Best Team Won], ''Eugene Register-Guard'', October 12, 1941.</ref> Greenough was chosen as an All-American, helping the Beavers to a Pacific Coast Conference championship and berth in the 1942 Rose Bowl.<ref name="mediaguide">{{cite web| title =Oregon State Football All-Americans |work =Oregon State Football Media Guide| year =2007| url =http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf4/79997.pdf?ATCLID=153842&SPID=1952&DB_OEM_ID=4700&SPSID=27968| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231551/http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf4/79997.pdf?ATCLID=153842&SPID=1952&DB_OEM_ID=4700&SPSID=27968| url-status =dead| archive-date =March 3, 2016| page =191| access-date = November 8, 2007|publisher=OSUBeavers.com }} </ref> With Greenough anchoring the offensive line, the underdog Beavers won their first (and so far, only) Rose Bowl, upsetting Duke 20–16.<ref name=osuhof>{{cite web|url=http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4700&KEY=&ATCLID=188614|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120004509/http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4700&KEY=&ATCLID=188614|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 20, 2015|title=Oregon State University Sports Hall of Fame|publisher=Oregon State Sports Information|access-date=November 8, 2007}} </ref>
He later played in the 1944 East-West Shrine Game, and after his college career, served in the United States Coast Guard and played on the Coast Guard's football team.<ref name=gazette/>
==After football== When his playing career ended, Greenough became an assistant football coach under Beavers head coach Lon Stiner. He married Rae Ardis DeMoss, becoming the brother-in-law of his Rose Bowl teammate Don Durdan, who was married to another DeMoss sister. (Another sister was Oregon golf champion Grace DeMoss.) Greenough later set up his own general contractor business in Corvallis, Oregon.<ref name=gazette/>
Greenough was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981<ref name=oshof>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonsportshall.org/inductee-members.html |publisher=Oregon Sports Hall of Fame |title=Hall of Fame Roll of Honor Members |access-date=February 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727152755/http://www.oregonsportshall.org/inductee-members.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref> and the Oregon State University Hall of Fame in 1991.<ref name=osuhof/> He died in Corvallis in 2005.<ref name=gazette/>
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