The O.A.C. football team were the Intercollegiate Champions of the State. The team won 4 games and scored 148 points with only 8 points scored against them. The team was coached by William H. Bloss (son of President). Pictured: Front Row: Buxton, Holmes, Scott, Pendleton, Scroggins, Kruse, Gault, Holgate. Middle row: McBride, Galligher, Noel, Stimpson, Cree. Back row: Manager Edwards, Walters, Elgin, McAllister, Bodine (Captain), Thurston and Coach Bloss.
Harvey L. McAlister was known as "Pap Hayseed" during his student years at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). McAlister came from Lexington, Oregon (in Morrow County) to OAC in 1893. As a freshman, he played center on the first OAC football team. McAlister attended OAC from 1893 to 1897 and earned a BS in Agriculture. After service in the Spanish-American War, he returned to Lexington where he farmed until his retirement in 1947, when he moved to the Veterans Home in Napa, California. McAlister died in California in 1955.