1904 college football season | |||||
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![]() Penn–Harvard game.
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Total # of teams | 81[1] | ||||
Number of bowls | 0 | ||||
Champions | Michigan Wolverines Minnesota Golden Gophers Penn Quakers |
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The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions.[2]
1904 was a big year for the South. It was the first year for: Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, Mike Donahue at Auburn, and John Heisman at Georgia Tech.
Contents
Conference standings[edit]
The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
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Awards and honors[edit]
All-Americans[edit]
Main article: 1904 College Football All-America Team
The consensus All-America team included:
Position | Name | Height | Weight (lbs.) | Class | Hometown | Team |
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QB | Vince Stevenson | 5'10" | 148 | Jr. | Penn | |
QB | Foster Rockwell | Sr. | Vermont | Yale | ||
HB | Daniel Hurley | Jr. | Charlestown, Massachusetts | Harvard | ||
HB | Willie Heston | 5'8" | 190 | Sr. | Grant's Pass, Oregon | Michigan |
FB | Walter Eckersall | 5'7" | 141 | So. | Chicago, Illinois | Chicago |
FB | Andy Smith | Sr. | Du Bois, Pennsylvania | Penn | ||
FB | Henry Torney | Jr. | Army | |||
E | Tom Shevlin | 5'10" | 195 | Jr. | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Yale |
T | James Hogan | 5'10" | 210 | Sr. | Yale | |
G | Frank Piekarski | Sr. | Nanticoke, Pennsylvania | Penn | ||
G | Joseph Gilman | Exeter, New Hampshire | Dartmouth | |||
C | Arthur Tipton | Sr. | Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory | Army | ||
G | Ralph Kinney | Sr. | Yale | |||
T | James Cooney | So. | Princeton | |||
E | Fred Speik | Sr. | Stockton, California | Chicago |
Statistical leaders[edit]
- Team scoring most points: Minnesota, 725 to 12.
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1904.htm
- ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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