Quentin Carl Greenough is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player.

Football career

Greenough was born in Porterville, California

Porterville, California

Porterville is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, United States. Porterville's population was 54,165 at the 2010 census. The city's population grew dramatically as the city annexed many properties and unincorporated areas in and around Porterville. Not included in the...

 and later moved to San Gabriel, California

San Gabriel, California

San Gabriel is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is named after the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded by Junipero Serra. The city grew outward from the mission and in 1852 became the original township of Los Angeles County. San Gabriel was incorporated in 1913...

. He attended Alhambra High School, then enrolled at Oregon State College (later Oregon State University

Oregon State University

Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...

) where he became the starting

Starting lineup

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 center

Center (American football)

Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...

. In the 1941 season, he was credited with leading Oregon State's 10–0 defensive effort against Stanford

1941 Stanford Indians football team

The 1941 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University in National Collegiate Athletic Association intercollegiate competition during the 1941 season. Second-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy led the team to a 6–3 record...

, which behind its new T-formation had not lost a game since 1939. Greenough was chosen as an All-American, helping the Beavers to a Pacific Coast Conference

Pacific Coast Conference

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 championship and berth in the 1942 Rose Bowl

1942 Rose Bowl

The 1942 Rose Bowl was the 28th Rose Bowl game. Originally scheduled to be played in the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, it was moved to Durham, North Carolina, due to fears about an attack by the Japanese on the West Coast of the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor...

. With Greenough anchoring the offensive line, the underdog

Underdog (competition)

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 Beavers won their first (and so far, only) Rose Bowl, upsetting Duke

Duke Blue Devils

Duke University's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry...

 20-16.

He later played in the 1944 East-West Shrine Game

East-West Shrine Game

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, and after his college career, served in the United States Coast Guard

United States Coast Guard

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 and played on the Coast Guard's football team.

After football

When his playing career ended, Greenough became an assistant football coach under Beavers head coach Lon Stiner

Lon Stiner

Alonzo "Lon" Stiner was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Oregon State University from 1933 to 1948, compiling a record of 74–49–17.-Coaching career:...

. He married Rae Ardis DeMoss, becoming the brother-in-law of his Rose Bowl teammate Don Durdan

Don Durdan

Donald Edgar Durdan was a professional American football and basketball player.-Early life:Durdan was born in Arcata, California and attended Eureka High School, where he played running back on the high school football team...

, who was married to another DeMoss sister. (Another sister was Oregon golf champion Grace DeMoss

Grace DeMoss

Grace DeMoss Zwahlen is a former competitive women's American amateur golfer from Oregon. One of the most successful female golfers from the Pacific Northwest, she was the first Pacific Northwesterner to be named to the prestigious United States Curtis Cup team in 1952 and 1954...

.) Greenough later set up his own general contractor

General contractor

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 business in Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis is a city located in central western Oregon, United States. It is the county seat of Benton County and the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 54,462....

.

Greenough was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame

Oregon Sports Hall of Fame

The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame honors Oregon athletes, teams, coaches, and others who have made a significant contribution to sports in Oregon. The first class was inducted in 1980, with new inductees added in the fall...

in 1981< and the Oregon State University Hall of Fame in 1991. He died in Corvallis in 2005.