Based upon newspaper accounts, the 1904–05 OAC team ended with a record of 6 wins and 2 losses, losing to neighboring Albany College in a state championship game held in Portland in March.
[1] On Friday, January 20, 1905, the Aggies faced off against the Lebanon High School girls team in front of a large crowd at the OAC Armory.
[2] A local news account noted that this event marked the first appearance of the OAC women's squad in the armory in two years, which generated a higher-than-anticipated level of interest.
Fully 100 people made the trip from Albany to see the contest, with a sizeable Corvallis contingent also turning out to make the crowd "a good one.
This fact made it certain from the opening of play that a bit of good luck might throw the result either way, and every movement of the ball was watched with almost breathless interest.
[5] Albany guard Gertrude Bussard hit a shot to tie the score in the second half — and "the interest, which had all along been at high pitch, now assumed a tension seldom seen," a commentator remarked.
[10] In the game at the Albany Armory, played before a packed house, the home team took a 10–5 lead to halftime, en route to an 18–13 victory over OAC.
[15] Bussard was clearly the player of the game, finishing with three field goals and six makes from the free throw line, accounting for more than half of Albany's scoring in the winning effort.