1924 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team

The 1924 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1924 college football season. Under new head coach Paul J. Schissler, the Aggies compiled a 3–5 record (1–4 in PCC, seventh) and were outscored 85 to 71.[1] Millard Scott was the team captain, and Percy Locey became the first Oregon Agricultural player to appear in an East–West Shrine Game.[2] The team played its home games on campus at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon.

1924 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–5 (1–4 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainMillard Scott
Home stadiumBell Field
1924 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Stanford $ 3 –0 –17 –1 –1
No. 2 California 2 –0 –28 –0 –2
Washington 3 –1 –18 –1 –1
No. 7 USC 2 –1 –09 –2 –0
Idaho 4 –2 –05 –2 –1
Oregon 2 –2 –14 –2 –3
Oregon Agricultural 1 –4 –03 –5 –0
Washington State 0 –4 –11 –5 –2
Montana 0 –3 –04 –4 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Dickinson System

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.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3vs. Whitman*
W 41–0[4]
October 11Multnomah Athletic Club*
W 7–6[5]
October 18vs. USC
L 3–1715,000[6]
October 25at Washington
L 3–610,264[7]
October 31Idaho
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
L 0–2212,000[8]
November 7at Washington State
W 14–13[9]
November 22Oregondagger
  • Bell Field
  • Corvallis, OR
L 3–7[10]
November 27at Nebraska*
L 0–14[11]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

Conference opponents not played this season: Montana, California, Stanford

References
  1. "1924 Oregon State Beavers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  2. "2016 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Oregon State University. pp. 183, 186. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  3. "Regents Elect Schissler New Aggie Coach". The Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon). April 1, 1924. p. 7.
  4. "Aggies smother Whitman, 41 to 0". The Spokesman-Review. October 4, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Aggies win first game of season on Bell gridiron". The Sunday Democrat. October 12, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Trojans win after being slow to start". Oakland Tribune. October 19, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Huskies on field of mud conquer Oregon's Aggies". Albany Daily Democrat. October 26, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Idaho steps all over Aggies and wins by 22 to 0". Eugene Guard. November 1, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Google News Archive.
  9. "Homecoming crowd at Pullman sees Cougars". The Spokesman-Review. November 8, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Foxy pass is used to beat Oregon Aggies". Oakland Tribune. November 23, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Nebraska grid team defeats Oregon Aggies". The Tacoma Daily Ledger. November 28, 1924. Retrieved October 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.


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