1904 college football rankings

none January 2024 December 2025 1904 Yale The 1904 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing. Caspar Whitney Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1904, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-two teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.Jenkins Dan Dan Jenkins Laguerre André André Laguerre This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open Sports Illustrated . September 11, 1967 28–34 27 11 Chicago https://vault.si.com/vault/1967/09/11/this-year-the-fight-will-be-in-the-open February 8, 2016 Polls and systems to determine the No. 1 team are not nearly so ancient as the mere naming of the "intercollegiate champion" by a Casper Whitney or a J. Parmly Paret. https://www.newspapers.com/article/harrisburg-daily-independent-yales-was/122058882/ Yale's was the best football eleven Harrisburg Star-Independent 4 December 31, 1904 June 1, 2022 Whitney is designated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a "major selector" of national championships, and his contemporary rankings in Outing for 1905–1907 are included in the NCAA college football records book.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2022/FBS.pdf 2022 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records National Champion Major Selections (1896 to Present) 114 The National Collegiate Athletic Association July 2022 Indianapolis January 4, 2023 Caspar Whitney (1904-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine. Rank TeamWhitney Caspar Whitney Caspar January 1905 XLV 4 493–499 The Sportsman's View-Point: 1904 Ranking Football Teams https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000925579q&seq=515 Outing Outing Publishing Company January 26, 2024 This ranking is not based only on comparative scores, but on style of play, conditions under which games were contested, relative importance of games on the schedule—especially with regard to each teams's "big" game, for which it was particularly trained—as well as the season's all-round record of the elevens under discussion. My particular interest in the study is its object lesson on comparative football development throughout the country. No college is eligible for consideration here whose disregard of wholesome sport has been patent and persistent, or whose team has played an ineligible man. Record 1 Yale 10–1 2 Penn 12–0 3 Army 7–2 4 Princeton 8–2 5 Harvard 7–2–1 6 Dartmouth 7–0–1 7 Minnesota 13–0 8 Michigan 10–0 9 Amherst 9–1 10 Chicago 10–1–1 11 Navy 7–2–1 12 Lafayette 8–2 13 Wisconsin 5–3 14 Carlisle 10–2 15 Haskell 8–1 16 Nebraska 7–3 17 Northwestern 8–2 18 Columbia 7–3 19 Maine 3–4 20 Brown 6–5 21 Illinois 9–2–1 22 Cornell 7–3 See also 1904 College Football All-America Team References * Category:College football rankings