1907 Oregon Agricultural Aggies Football Team
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The 1907 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as
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) as an independent during the
1907 college football season The 1907 college football season saw the increased use of the forward pass, which had been legalized the year before. Football remained a dangerous game, despite the "debrutalization" reforms, and an unprecedented eleven players were killed (9 hi ...
. In their second season under head coach
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, the Aggies compiled a perfect 6–0 record, did not allow any of their opponents to score, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 137 to 0. The Aggies' victories included games against
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(4–0), the (49–0), and (42–0). Oregon Agricultural's final game of the season, at in
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, was a Thanksgiving Day matchup of the "champions" of the Northwest and the "champions" of California, with the winner taking home the "championship" of the entire West Coast. After beating St. Vincent's, the Aggies' proclaimed themselves "Champions of the Pacific Coast". This is still the only perfect season in Oregon State history, and moreover, they did not allow a single point this season.


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