1924 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team

American college football season August 2023 December 2025 1924 Oregon Agricultural Beavers football Schissler-Paul-J-1926.jpg Northwest Conference Northwest Pacific Coast Conference PCC 3–5 2–3 1–4 Paul J. Schissler 1st Herb Rich Bell Field The 1924 Oregon Agricultural Beavers football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (OAC)—now known as Oregon State University—as a member of the Northwest Conference and the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1924 college football season. Under first-year head coach Paul J. Schissler, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 3–5 were outscored 85 to 71. Oregon Agricultural had a record of 2–3 in Northwest Conference play, tying for fifth place, and a record of 1–4 against PCC opponents, finishing seventh. Coast Season Ends With Teams In Tie https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oregonian/160200644/ The Morning Oregonian Portland, Oregon November 24, 1924 14 December 2, 2024 Newspapers.com Millard Scott was the team captain, and Percy Locey became the first Oregon Agricultural player to appear in an East–West Shrine Game.2016 Football Media Guide Oregon State University 183, 186 September 8, 2016 http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/oregonstate.sidearmsports.com/documents/2016/9/7/2016_Oregon_State_Media_Guide.pdf?id=4146 September 22, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160922212730/http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/oregonstate.sidearmsports.com/documents/2016/9/7/2016_Oregon_State_Media_Guide.pdf?id=4146 dead The team played its home games on campus at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon. In the early months of 1924, the college considered applications from 90 candidates for the position of head football coach. Schissler, the head coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, was hired on April 1. His Lombard Olive had lost only one game in three years (to Notre Dame) and outscored opponents 800 to 69; Schissler was recommended to Oregon Agricultural by Notre Dame head coach Knute Rockne.Regents Elect Schissler New Aggie Coach The Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon) April 1, 1924 7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6564745/regents_elect_schissler_new_aggie_coach/ Schedule y y October 3, 1924 vs Whitman Roundup Park Pendelton, OR W 41-0 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111751536/aggies-smother-whitman-41-to-0/ The Spokesman-Review Aggies smother Whitman, 41 to 0 October 4, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com October 11 Multnomah Athletic Club<ncg> Bell Field Corvallis, OR W 7-6 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111751705/aggies-win-first-game-of-season-on-bell/ The Sunday Democrat Aggies win first game of season on Bell gridiron October 12, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com October 18 vs USC Multnomah Field Portland, OR L 3-17 15,000 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111748530/trojans-win-after-being-slow-to-start/ Oakland Tribune Trojans win after being slow to start October 19, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com October 25 at Washington Husky Stadium Seattle, WA L 3-6 10,264 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111700470/huskies-on-field-of-mud-conquer-oregons/ Albany Daily Democrat Huskies on field of mud conquer Oregon's Aggies October 26, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com October 31, 1924 Idaho Bell Field Corvallis, OR L 0-22 12,000 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g0YUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MekDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6885%2C681104 Eugene Guard Idaho steps all over Aggies and wins by 22 to 0 November 1, 1924 October 21, 2022 Google News Archive November 7, 1924 at Washington State Rogers Field Pullman, WA W 14-13 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111752177/homecoming-crowd-at-pullman-sees-cougars/ The Spokesman-Review Homecoming crowd at Pullman sees Cougars November 8, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com November 22 Oregon<hc> Bell Field Corvallis, OR (rivalry) L 3-7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111750939/foxy-pass-is-used-to-beat-oregon-aggies/ Oakland Tribune Foxy pass is used to beat Oregon Aggies November 23, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com November 27, 1924 at Nebraska<ncg> Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE L 0-14 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111752411/nebraska-grid-team-defeats-oregon-aggies/ The Tacoma Daily Ledger Nebraska grid team defeats Oregon Aggies November 28, 1924 October 21, 2022 Newspapers.com 1924 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football September 8, 2016 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/oregon-state/1924-schedule.html Game summaries October 3: at Whitman College in Pendleton OAC opened its 1924 schedule with a tune-up game against Whitman College of Walla Walla, Washington, a small liberal arts college which had maintained a football program since the 1890s and which had first played the Aggies in 1908. Enrollment at OAC and its player pool had grown considerably during the 1910s and these peers of the early 1900s were no longer evenly matched. Thirty Aggie players would see action against Whitman — a remarkable number for the single platoon era — and these were said to outweigh their opponents in the maize-and-blue by an average of 15 pounds and to exhibit more speed as well."Poor Tackling and Lack of Spirit Factors of Defeat Last Friday in Pendleton," Whitman College Pioneer, October 10, 1924, p. 4. The game started even, with OAC receiving the opening kick and driving the ball to the 20-yard line, where they were held to a field goal. This 3–0 Aggie lead would remain all the scoring of a relatively uneventful first quarter. The Beavers pushed the ball across the goal line early in the second quarter, with the conversion making the score 10–0, and OAC coach Schissler immediately substituted an entire 11-man team. This second unit used forward passes with effect, soon scoring a second touchdown, and the rout was on. A third touchdown was scored on a 45-yard run by Aggie quarterback Ray Price and then OAC scored yet again, taking a 34–0 lead into halftime. The OAC second unit started the second half, and Coach Schissler ran in a steady stream of reserves throughout the rest of the game. "The substitutes seemed to be almost on a par with the varsity although they made but one touchdown during the final quarter," a reporter from the Whitman campus newspaper observed. According to this observer, the Beavers were assessed "close to 200 yards" in penalties, frequently the result of "inaccurate timing of shift plays." He added that "just as much was for holding and unnecessary roughness," which was sometimes caught but still the Beavers "got away with plenty." The 41–0 result was one-sided, but could have been much worse. 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