In their first and only season under head coach Hiland Orlando Stickney, the Aggies compiled a 3–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 76 to 60.
[2] The season was marked by the collapse of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association (OIFA) in mid-season when OAC and the University of Oregon bolted amidst allegations that Willamette University was stacking its roster with "ringers" who were not actual students of the school.
[4] The Orange scored their first touchdown after just two minutes of game action following Albany turning over the ball on downs deep in their own end.
[4] Having gained no first downs all afternoon and looking at a 6 touchdown deficit, Albany College was ready to run up the white flag.
[11] The winner of the game was to meet the University of Oregon on Thanksgiving Day to determine a state collegiate football champion.
Allegations arose that "ringers" had been enrolled at Willamette "for the sole purpose of playing football," prompting the University of Oregon and OAC to withdraw abruptly and jointly from the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association (OIFA)[12] A story in the Eugene Guard declared: With the Saturday, November 18 date suddenly freed, OAC team manager James H. Gallagher hastily booked a match between the Orange and the football team of the Multnomah Athletic Club, to be held in Corvallis on that date.
From Salem came claims that OAC had developed a case of "cold feet" and rather than face the "humiliation of defeat" at the hands of a superior Willamette squad the Orangemen had enlisted the University of Oregon to go along with the "juvenile prank" of quitting the association.
[12] This was cancelled in the aftermath of the Willamette football "ringer" scandal, as a part of which U of O and OAC had proclaimed all agreements between themselves and the league to be "null and void.