OAC Teams from
1910 to 1920

 

 

 

Fielder Jones coaching OAC Baseball Team, 1910

 

Only four years after leading the Chicago White Sox to the World Series championship, Fielder Jones was enlisted to coach the OAC baseball team. A salary dispute with Sox owner Charles Comiskey led to Jones' departure from the Windy City and he came to the Pacific Northwest to look after timber and land interests. Coach Jones traveled back and forth between Portland and Corvallis for team practices and games. Jones eventually went back to Chicago to coach that city's entry in the Federal League in 1914.
[OSU Archives, P17:4867]

 

 

 

 

 

"Baseball" by Pinto Colvig, 1912

 

Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig's humorous drawings were used extensively throughout the 1913 Beaver yearbook. Colvig attended OAC in 1911-1913 and gained fame as the voice of Goofy for Walt Disney Studios and Bozo the Clown for Capitol Records.
[OSU Archives, 1913 Beaver, p. 286.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sieberts [sic] Scores Marker in 7th Inning, May 18, 1920

Emil Seibert played second base at Oregon State from 1918 through 1920. In the background of the photo are the Armory (now McAlexander Fieldhouse) and the Heating Plant.
[OSU Archives, P7:16.]

 

 

 

 

 

Standing Room Only Crowd at the OAC Diamond, ca. 1920

The stands are filled, so a crowd of students and other supporters stand along the third base line to cheer the Beaver baseball team. Waldo Hall and the Armory (now McAlexander Fieldhouse) are visible in the background.
[OSU Archives P7:23]





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