The 1924 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now

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) in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the

1924 college football season The 1924 college football season was the year of the Four Horsemen as the Notre Dame team, coached by Knute Rockne, won all of its games, including the Rose Bowl, to be acclaimed as the best team in the nation. Notre Dame and Stanford were bo ...

. 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

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became the first Oregon Agricultural player to appear in an East–West Shrine Game. The team played its home games on campus at

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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

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, 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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