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. Millard Scott was the team captain, and Percy Locey became the first Oregon Agricultural player to appear in an East–West Shrine Game. 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
  • Paul J. Schissler (1st season)
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.

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