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{{Short description|American football player, coach, and administrator (1924–2003)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Dee Andros
| image = [[File:Dee Andros.jpg|180px]]
| alt = 
| caption = Andros, c. 1970
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1924|10|17}}
| birth_place = [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|10|22|1924|10|17}}
| death_place = [[Corvallis, Oregon]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_years1 = 1946–1949
| player_team1 = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]]
| player_positions = [[Guard (gridiron football)|Guard]]
| coach_years1 = 1951–1952
| coach_team1 = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]] (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 1953
| coach_team2 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1954–1955
| coach_team3 = [[Texas Tech Red Raiders football|Texas Tech]] (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1956
| coach_team4 = [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]] (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1957–1959
| coach_team5 = [[California Golden Bears football|California]] (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 1960–1961
| coach_team6 = [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]] (assistant)
| coach_years7 = 1962–1964
| coach_team7 = [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]]
| coach_years8 = 1965–1975
| coach_team8 = [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State]]
| admin_years1 = 1976–1985
| admin_team1 = [[Oregon State Beavers|Oregon State]]
| overall_record = 62–80–2
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards = Second-team All-[[Big Eight Conference|Big Seven]] ([[1949 All-Big Seven Conference football team|1949]])
| coaching_records = 
| module = 
{{Infobox military person
| embed = yes
| allegiance = {{USA}}
| branch = [[File:USMC logo.svg|15px]] [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]]
| rank = [[File:USMC-E5.svg|15px]] [[Sergeant#Marine Corps|Sergeant]]
| unit = 
| serviceyears = 1942–1946
| battles = [[World War II]]<br>[[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II|Pacific theater]]<br>[[Battle of Iwo Jima]]
| awards = [[File:Bronze Star ribbon.svg|25px]] [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]]
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'''Demosthenes Konstandies Andrecopoulos''' (October 17, 1924 – October 22, 2003) was an American [[college football]] player, coach, and athletics administrator.<ref name=ofbicon>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3MYjAAAAIBAJ&pg=1298%2C3236141 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |location=(Idaho-Washington) |agency=Associated Press |last=Frazier |first=Joseph B. |title=OSU football icon Dee Andros is dead |date=October 23, 2003 |page=3B}}</ref><ref name=latobit>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-23-me-andros23-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |agency=(obituary) |last=Teaford |first=Elliott |title=Dee Andros, 79; was football coach at Oregon State |date=October 23, 2003|access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> He was the head coach at the [[Idaho Vandals football|University of Idaho]] from 1962 to 1964 and [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State University]] from 1965 to 1975, compiling a career record of {{nowrap|{{winning percentage|62|80|2|record=y}}.}} A native of [[Oklahoma]] and a [[World War II]] veteran, Andros played [[college football]] as a [[Guard (gridiron football)|guard]] at the [[Oklahoma Sooners football|University of Oklahoma]]. After retiring from coaching, he was the [[athletic director]] at Oregon&nbsp;State from 1976 to 1985.<ref name=fbcad>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vs5eAAAAIBAJ&pg=4538,2430121 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press |title=Famed Beavers coach Andros dies |date=October 23, 2003|page=4B}}</ref>

==Early life, military service, and playing career==
Born Demosthenes Konstandies Andrikopoulos in [[Oklahoma City]], Andros was the second of three sons of a [[Greece|Greek]] immigrant father.<ref name=icon>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QFFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5269%2C5542874|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |last=Rodman |first=Bob |title=Beavers lose a symbol and an icon |date=October 23, 2003|page=D1}}</ref> He&nbsp;graduated from [[Oklahoma City Public Schools|Oklahoma City's]] Central High School in 1942, and then enlisted in the&nbsp;military at age seventeen during [[World War&nbsp;II]].<ref name=obit>Goe, Ken. Dee Andros: 1924–2003 Handling heat a constant for OSU's 'Great Pumpkin'. ''[[The Oregonian]]'', October 23, 2003.</ref> Andros&nbsp;served four years in the [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]]; a&nbsp;[[Cook (profession)|cook]], he&nbsp;picked up a rifle and was awarded the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] and spent more than a month under heavy fire on the island of [[Iwo&nbsp;Jima]] in&nbsp;1945.<ref name=obit/> He&nbsp;was present at the famed moment when six Marines [[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|raised the American flag]] on [[Mount Suribachi]].<ref name=lovehim>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FaFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=4024%2C6956406 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon)|last=Sellard |first=Dan|title=They love him in Corvallis |date=October 31, 1971|page=3-''Emerald Empire''}}</ref><ref name=sptlk>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aTFdAAAAIBAJ&pg=2566,3236763 |newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World|location=(Kansas)|last=Mayer|first=Bill|title=Sport talk |date=February 4, 1953 |page=10}}</ref>

Andros played college football at [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]] from 1946 to [[1949 Oklahoma Sooners football team|1949]], under [[College Football Hall of Fame|hall of fame]] head coach [[Bud Wilkinson]].<ref name=obit/> He was selected in the 14th round (177th overall) by the [[1950 Chicago Cardinals season|Chicago Cardinals]] in the [[1950 NFL Draft#Round fourteen|1950 NFL draft]].<ref>Oklahoma Sooners History Page, [http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/m-footbl-all-time-in-nfl-draft.html "OU in the draft"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718200228/http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/m-footbl-all-time-in-nfl-draft.html |date=2007-07-18 }}</ref> Dee's older brother [[Plato Andros|Plato]] {{nowrap|(1922–2008)}} was an [[1946 College Football All-America Team|All-American in 1946]] at Oklahoma and played four years in the [[National Football League|NFL]] for the Cardinals.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bEsnAAAAIBAJ&pg=2895,3399036 |newspaper=Gadsden Times |location=Alabama |title=Former Oklahoma guard is in the oil business now |date=September 23, 1976|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://newsok.com/article/3301941 |newspaper=The Oklahoman |location=Oklahoma City |last=Tramel |first=Barry |title='Golden Greek' helped ignite new era at OU – Plato Andros: 1922-2008 |date=September 24, 2008 |access-date=October 27, 2015}}</ref> His younger brother Gus (Dick) {{nowrap|(1926–2009)}} was a [[ballet]] dancer and choreographer.<ref name=lovehim/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://michaelminn.net/andros/features/a_league_of_his_own/ |newspaper=Oklahoma City Journal Record |last=Nichols |first=Max |title=Youngest Andros brother finds league of his own |date=June 2, 2003}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
Andros' coaching career included stops as an assistant at [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]], [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]], [[Texas Tech Red Raiders football|Texas Tech]], [[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]], [[California Golden Bears football|California]], and [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]]. His [[bowl game]]s as an assistant were the [[Sun Bowl]] in January [[1956 Sun Bowl|1956]] with [[1955 Texas Tech Red Raiders football|Texas Tech]] and the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]] in January [[1959 Rose Bowl|1959]] with [[1958 California Golden Bears football team|California]].

===Idaho===
Andros became a head coach at age 37 at [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]] in February [[1962 Idaho Vandals football team|1962]]. He&nbsp;took over in [[Moscow, Idaho|Moscow]] for [[Skip Stahley]], who stepped down after eight seasons and remained as athletic director.<ref name=illad>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jLpeAAAAIBAJ&pg=4176,2473033 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=Illinois aide Dee Andros named Idaho football coach |last=Carter |first=Jack|date=February 18, 1962 |page=8}}</ref><ref name=fsgnic>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c1spAAAAIBAJ&pg=6720%2C1093680 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |title=Former Sooner guard new Idaho coach |last=Missildine |first=Harry|date=February 18, 1962 |page=1-sports}}</ref><ref name=nvcft>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5jJYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5562%2C4240258 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|title=New Vandal coach |agency=(photo) |date=February 19, 1962 |page=11}}</ref> Andros' starting annual salary was just under {{nowrap|[[United States dollar|$]]12,500.<ref name=isalry>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CcNWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6682,5783796 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press|title=ISC coaches lodge complaint: Idaho's salaries reported higher |date=April 21, 1962 |page=10}}</ref>}}
 
The 1962 team was 2–6–1,<ref name=grtkds>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EjhWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6992%2C1094684 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Payne |first=Bob |title=Dee is happy he took job; --"These are great kids" |date=November 18, 1962 |page=2-sports}}</ref> but the [[1963 Idaho Vandals football team|following year]] he led Idaho to its first winning season (5–4)<ref name=iwflcgs>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1rZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6677%2C635964 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Payne |first=Bob |title=Idaho wins; Ford leads Cougars |date=November 17, 1963 |page=1-sports}}</ref> in a [[1938 Idaho Vandals football team|quarter century]].<ref name=nhwfv>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4LZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6514%2C3855914 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |title=Naccarato 'Hec' winner for Vandals |date=November 27, 1963 |page=12 }}</ref><ref name=andgridos>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HVZYAAAAIBAJ&pg=7109%2C94505 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Dee Andros named Oregon State grid coach |last=Johnson |first=Bob |date=February 1, 1965 |page=15}}</ref> The&nbsp;tenth and final game in 1963 at [[1963 Arizona State Sun Devils football team|Arizona State]] on November 23 was canceled, following the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of President&nbsp;Kennedy]].<ref name=icippd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wt5YAAAAIBAJ&pg=4751%2C5813082 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Idaho contest is postponed |date=November 23, 1963 |page=10 }}</ref><ref name=igahbut>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w95YAAAAIBAJ&pg=4575%2C6056744 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Vandal gridders are happy, but-- |date=November 25, 1963 |page=16 }}</ref>

The Vandals won their opener in [[1964 Idaho Vandals football team|1964]], but then lost four straight, the latter two were close ones to [[1964 Oregon Webfoots football team|Oregon]] and [[1964 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]. The&nbsp;{{nowrap|10–7}} loss to the [[1965 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]]-bound Beavers in Corvallis came by a late third quarter OSU punt return.<ref name=osutip>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v8teAAAAIBAJ&pg=5563%2C2987682 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=OSU tips Vandals on punt return tally |date=October 19, 1964 |page=11}}</ref> The&nbsp;Vandals rebounded and the next week won the [[Battle of the Palouse]] for the first time in a decade, defeating neighbor [[1964 Washington State Cougars football team|Washington State]] {{nowrap|28–13.<ref name=trlich>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AOFXAAAAIBAJ&pg=6881%2C2942184 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |title='Thunder Ray' leads Idaho's charge |last=Missildine |first=Harry|date=October 25, 1964 |page=1-sports}}</ref>}} The&nbsp;Cougars were led by first-year head coach [[Bert Clark]], a former Sooner teammate; the Vandals split the final four games to finish at&nbsp;4–6.

While Idaho had been a driving force in the founding of the [[Big Sky Conference]] in 1963,<ref name=srsixwst>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AKtWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6973%2C3408852 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Missildine |first=Harry |title=Six western schools create Big Sky athletic conference |date=February 26, 1963 |page=12 }}</ref><ref name=bsrdflc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WXYzAAAAIBAJ&pg=4093%2C6223691 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |title=Big Sky is ready for league action |date=February 26, 1963 |page=13}}</ref> it was primarily to alleviate [[Idaho Vandals men's basketball|basketball]] scheduling and the Vandals remained an [[NCAA Division I FBS independent schools|independent]] for football through 1964 under Andros. Only one conference foe was played during the first two Big Sky seasons, a 1963 game with [[Idaho State Bengals football|Idaho State]] that was previously scheduled. Idaho was in the University Division, while the other Big Sky members were in the College Division (which became [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] in [[1973 NCAA Division II football season|1973]]) for football. After Andros left, Idaho began conference play in [[1965 Idaho Vandals football team|1965]] under head coach [[Steve Musseau]], Andros' defensive coordinator.

Andros spent three years on the [[Palouse]] at Idaho, with an overall record of {{winpct|11|16|1|record=y}}.

One of his first-year hires at Idaho in 1962 was alumnus [[Bud Riley]] {{nowrap|(1925–2012),<ref name=brobitoreg>{{cite news |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2012/08/bud_riley_former_oregon_state.html |newspaper=The Oregonian |location=(Portland)|last=Buker |first=Paul |title=Bud Riley, former Oregon State assistant and father of head coach Mike Riley, dies at 86 |date=August 6, 2012 |access-date=October 26, 2015 }}</ref>}} then the head coach and athletic director at [[Lewiston High School (Idaho)|Lewiston High School]], {{convert|30|mi|-1|spell=in}} south of Moscow.<ref name=budlewui>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WaVfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6056,3908940 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=Bud Riley named Idaho assistant |date=May 27, 1962 |page=11}}</ref> A&nbsp;former Vandal halfback for [[Dixie Howell]], he coached the Idaho freshman team for Andros and went with him to OSU in 1965.<ref name=mrnjlcm>{{cite web|url=http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30800&ATCLID=207849426 |publisher=Oregon State University Athletics |title=Mike Riley and Jess Lewis Comment on the passing of Dee Andros |date=October 22, 2003 |access-date=October 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123031655/http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30800&ATCLID=207849426 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 }}</ref> Riley was a defensive assistant in Corvallis for eight years before moving on to the [[Canadian Football League]] in 1973 and became a head coach the following year. His eldest son [[Mike Riley (American football)|Mike]] (b.1953) was the head coach at Oregon State for fourteen seasons and later at&nbsp;[[Nebraska Cornhuskers football|Nebraska]].<ref name=mrnjlcm/><ref name=lives>{{cite news |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindbeaversbeat/2009/12/the_lives_of_two_rileys_define.html |newspaper=The Oregonian |location=(Portland)|last=Tokito |first=Mike |title=The lives of two Rileys define Oregon State football |date=December 2, 2009 |access-date=October 26, 2015}}</ref>

===Oregon State===
Andros was hired as the head coach at Oregon State in February {{nowrap|[[1965 Oregon State Beavers football|1965]].<ref name=andgridos/><ref name=abnjaoscc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o5cRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6817%2C112246|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon)|title=Andros begins new job as OSU coach|agency=AP, UPI reports|date=February 2, 1965|page=2B}}</ref>}} He replaced the legendary [[Tommy Prothro]], who left after ten seasons in Corvallis for [[1965 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]], just ten days after leading the Beavers in the [[1965 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]].<ref name=tpjbru>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3ThWAAAAIBAJ&pg=7493%2C3329073 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Tom Prothro joins Bruins |date=January 12, 1965 |page=12 }}</ref><ref name=ambpst>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cuBYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4871%2C2469217 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Andros mentioned for Beaver post |date=January 12, 1965 |page=14 }}</ref> Andros compiled a {{nowrap|{{winning percentage|51|64|1|record=y}}}} record in eleven seasons at OSU. In the [[Oregon–Oregon State football rivalry|Civil War]] games against the [[Oregon Ducks football|Oregon Ducks]], he won his first seven and split the last four, for an overall record of {{nowrap|{{winning percentage|9|2|record=y}}.}} Andros was nicknamed "[[The Great Pumpkin]]" for his bright orange jacket and large physical size,<ref name=fbcad/><ref name=icon/> first dubbed by a [[Spokesman-Review|Spokane]] sports columnist during the {{nowrap|41–13}} homecoming rout of WSU in [[Rogers Field (Washington)|Pullman]] on Halloween weekend in [[1966 Washington State Cougars football team|1966]].<ref name=lovehim/><ref name=driltgp>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6zdWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6959%2C5283829 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Missildine |first=Harry |title=Dee rolled in like the Great Pumpkin |date=October 30, 1966 |page=1-sports }}</ref><ref name=winma>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=etcyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5655,3048350 |newspaper=Idahonian |location=(Moscow) |title=Whats in a name? It's love |last=Missildine |first=Harry|date=February 23, 1987 |page=9}}</ref> It was his first game on the Palouse since he left Idaho; his last Palouse game as Vandal head two years earlier was also a win over the Cougars, 28–13.<ref name=trlich/>

As OSU head coach, Andros was 8–3 against Washington State and split the first ten games with [[Washington Huskies football|Washington]] while headed by former Oklahoma teammate [[Jim Owens]]; Oregon State was beaten {{nowrap|35–7}} by the [[1975 Washington Huskies football team|Huskies]] in [[Seattle]] in [[1975 Oregon State Beavers football team|1975]], [[Don James (American football)|Don James]]' first season at UW and Andros' last in coaching. He was also {{nowrap|2–0}} against his former team, beating the Idaho Vandals by two in [[Albertsons Stadium#Bronco Stadium (I)|Boise]] in [[1965 Oregon State Beavers football team|1965]] and by seven in Corvallis in [[1966 Oregon State Beavers football team|1966]].

====1967====
Andros is best known for his incredible [[1967 Oregon State Beavers football team|1967]] season in which his team, dubbed the "Giant Killers", went {{nowrap|7–2–1.}} Led by junior quarterback [[Steve Preece]], the Beavers beat No. 2 [[1967 Purdue Boilermakers football team|Purdue]], tied the new No. 2 [[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]], and then beat No.1 [[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]]. But because Oregon State lost to [[1967 Washington Huskies football team|Washington]] and tied UCLA, USC won the conference title by a half game and earned the berth to the [[1968 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]], where they defeated the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]'s [[1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team|Indiana Hoosiers]] {{nowrap|14–3}} and won the [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national title]]. Oregon State finished with a No. 7 ranking in the [[1967 NCAA University Division football rankings|final]] [[AP Poll]]. In [[1968 Oregon State Beavers football team|1968]], the Beavers were ranked sixth in the pre-season and [[1968 NCAA University Division football rankings|finished]] fifteenth after a {{nowrap|7–3}} campaign. There was no bowl game for the Beavers in either year, as both the Pac-8 and Big Ten forbade their teams from postseason participation outside of the Rose Bowl until the [[1975 NCAA Division I football season|1975]] season.

Andros expressed an interest in the open position at [[Oklahoma State Cowboys football|Oklahoma State University]] in [[Stillwater, Oklahoma|Stillwater]] in December {{nowrap|1968,<ref name=admmtos>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1wpWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3298%2C7371787 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=Andros may move to Oklahoma State |date=December 29, 1968 |page=1B}}</ref><ref name=connewpo>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0rZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2174%2C4436244 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=OSU's Dee considering new post |date=December 29, 1968 |page=1, sports}}</ref><ref>''[https://archive.today/20120719040710/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AzdcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u1UNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3579,6828966 Merced Sun-Star]'' - Andros is sought by Oklahoma State team - ''UPI'' - 1968-12-30 - p.10</ref>}} and several weeks later, rejected an offer from the [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|University of Pittsburgh]],<ref name=areoff>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MWNFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3878%2C2356010 |newspaper=Telegraph-Herald |location=Dubuque, Iowa |agency=UPI |title=Andros rejects offer to coach at Pittsburgh |date=January 19, 1969 |page=27}}</ref> but improved his situation in Corvallis.<ref name=aghsec>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CNlVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5336%2C3891796 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon)|last=Cawood |first=Neil |title=Andros gets his security |date=January 19, 1969 |page=1B}}</ref><ref name=bbrezr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZpNYAAAAIBAJ&pg=1841%2C1011041|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|last=Johnson |first=Bill |title=Beavers breathe easier |date=January 20, 1969 |page=13}}</ref>

Although it wasn't apparent at the time, Andros' tenure at Oregon State crested with the 1968 season. Following two six-win seasons in 1969 and 1970, his teams would only win a total of 13 games in the next five years, the start of 28 straight losing seasons.

==Later life and family==
Following an eighth straight loss to open the [[1975 Oregon State Beavers football team|1975]] season, Andros announced his resignation, effective at the end of the season.<ref name=pumpbowout>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_HkzAAAAIBAJ&pg=2677%2C293975 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |last=Conrad |first=John |title=Pumpkin bows out |date=November 2, 1975 |page=1B}}</ref> Days after the final game, he was named [[athletic director]] to succeed the retiring Jim Barratt.<ref name=bfnewd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EHozAAAAIBAJ&pg=5983%2C7794064 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=Beavers find new AD – Dee |date=November 27, 1975 |page=1D }}</ref><ref name=onda>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hPwnAAAAIBAJ&pg=3699%2C3138883 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=OSU names Dee Andros |date=November 27, 1975 |page=89}}</ref> Andros retired as AD in the spring of 1985, and continued to serve as a special assistant within the Beaver Athletic Scholarship Fund until health problems forced him to remain at his Corvallis home. He spent nearly four decades with [[Oregon State Beavers|Oregon State athletics]].

Though he spent only three years at [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]], he was still held in high regard in [[Moscow, Idaho|Moscow]]. In [[1989 Idaho Vandals football team|1989]], Andros was invited by new head coach [[John L. Smith]] to lead one of the sides in the annual Silver & Gold spring game, opposite former 1970s head coach [[Ed Troxel]].<ref name= trxandtc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yZJfAAAAIBAJ&pg=2441%2C1543277 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=Troxel, Andros to coach |date=April 21, 1989 |page=2C}}</ref>

In 1992, his "Giant Killers" team of 1967 was inducted into the [[Oregon Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref name=obit/> In the spring of 2003, Andros was awarded the Martin Chaves Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fifth Annual Bennys celebration at Oregon State. Andros married Luella Andros, and they had one daughter named Jeanna.<ref name=obit/> He died in Corvallis on October 22, 2003, at the age of 79.<ref name=obit/>

==Head coaching record==
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = no| poll = both }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho Vandals]]
 | conf      = [[NCAA University Division|NCAA University Division independent]]
 | startyear = 1962
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1962 NCAA University Division football season|1962]]
 | name         = [[1962 Idaho Vandals football team|Idaho]]
 | overall      = 2–6–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowloutcome  = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho Vandals]]
 | conf      = [[Big Sky Conference]]
 | startyear = 1963
 | endyear   = 1964
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1963 NCAA University Division football season|1963]]
 | name         = [[1963 Idaho Vandals football team|Idaho]]
 | overall      = 5–4
 | conference   = 1–0
 | confstanding = NA
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1964 NCAA University Division football season|1964]]
 | name         = [[1964 Idaho Vandals football team|Idaho]]
 | overall      = 4–6
 | conference   = 0–0
 | confstanding = NA
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Idaho
 | overall    = 11–16–1
 | confrecord = 1–0
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State Beavers]]
 | conf      = [[Pac-12 Conference|Pacific-8 Conference]]
 | startyear = 1965
 | endyear   = 1975
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1965 NCAA University Division football season|1965]]
 | name         = [[1965 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 5–5
 | conference   = 1–3
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1966 NCAA University Division football season|1966]]
 | name         = [[1966 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 7–3
 | conference   = 3–1
 | bowloutcome  = no
 | confstanding = T–2nd
 | ranking      = 19
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1967 NCAA University Division football season|1967]]
 | name         = [[1967 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 7–2–1
 | conference   = 4–1–1
 | confstanding = T–2nd
 | bowloutcome  = no
 | ranking      = 8
 | ranking2     = 7
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1968 NCAA University Division football season|1968]]
 | name         = [[1968 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 7–3
 | conference   = 5–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowloutcome  = no
 | ranking      = 13
 | ranking2     = 15
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1969 NCAA University Division football season|1969]]
 | name         = [[1969 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 6–4
 | conference   = 4–3
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1970 NCAA University Division football season|1970]]
 | name         = [[1970 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 6–5
 | conference   = 3–4
 | confstanding = T–6th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1971 NCAA University Division football season|1971]]
 | name         = [[1971 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 5–6
 | conference   = 3–3
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1972 NCAA University Division football season|1972]]
 | name         = [[1972 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 2–9
 | conference   = 1–6
 | confstanding = 8th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1973 NCAA Division I football season|1973]]
 | name         = [[1973 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 2–9
 | conference   = 2–5
 | confstanding = T–6th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1974 NCAA Division I football season|1974]]
 | name         = [[1974 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 3–8
 | conference   = 3–4
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1975 NCAA Division I football season|1975]]
 | name         = [[1975 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]]
 | overall      = 1–10
 | conference   = 1–6
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowloutcome  = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Oregon State
 | overall    = 51–64–1
 | confrecord = 30–37–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 62–80–2
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = two
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|8014025}}

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