Paul J. Schissler (1893-1968) was head football coach at Oregon State from 1924 to 1932, compiling a career record of 48-30-2. He later coached professionally with the Chicago Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers football teams.
Behind the students in the center of the photo is the OAC Cooperative Association building. This building served the association, later known as the bookstore, from 1917 to 1928. v
1917 Football Team. Back row (L-R) Walter Morgan; Briggs; Lowell; Phillips; Dutton; Lodell, Carl D. Front row: Charles "Jack" Moist; George Bush; Charles Rose;?;?.
Fans snake around each other on the field during halftime in a popular practice in early OAC football games against the University of Oregon called the "Serpentine."
Front row, left to right: Shuster, Laythe, Smyth, Hofer, Moore, Anderson, and Huntley. 2nd row: Yeager, Abraham, unidentified person, Hoerline, Billie, and Lutz.
Row #1 left to right: Hod Ray; Joe Britton; Jack Akinn; Butts Reardon; Chas. Johnson; Ray Archibald; and Cack Hubbard. Row #2 left to right: Joe Pipal, coach; Wayne Gurley; Chas. Beatty; Jack Perry; Millard Webster; Merle Loosley; Harry Cole; Tubby Selph; Carl Lodell; Oz Walker; and Horse Newman.
Those players that have been identified are: 1) Neer, Francis E.; 5) Andrews, Allan; 9) Sanders, George; 11) Kehrli, Frank; 12) Dickey, Chester; 13) Anderson, Isaac; 14) Williams, John R. "Rube"; 15) Walters, Harry Sidney "Red"; 16) Hoff, Norlyn; 17) Babb, Harold Sidney; and 19) Blackden, Ralph S.
Football captain Raymond Archibald was also known as "Peany." He played right halfback and graduated in 1919 in Engineering. Photo was used in the 1920 Beaver, Vol. 13, page 202.