1902 college football rankings

none January 2024 December 2025 1902 Yale The 1902 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing and a top-sixteen rating in The Sun. Caspar Whitney Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1902, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-eight 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. 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 (1902-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine. April 2025 Rank TeamWhitney Caspar Whitney Caspar January 1903 XLI 4 499–510 The Sportsman's View-Point: Ranking of the Elevens for 1902 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924066344957&seq=528 Outing Outing Publishing Company January 26, 2024 Record 1 Yale 11–0–1 2 Harvard 11–1 3 Army 6–1–1 The Sun In December 1902, New York City newspaper The Sun published a ranking of football teams. Rank TeamDecember 4, 1902 Ranking of Football Teams [1902] — Yale, Princeton, Harvard, West Point, the Order — Difficult to Place Other Elevens https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-1902-ranking-of-football-teams-t/139938510/ The Sun January 30, 2024 The football season being over, it is in order to rank the teams, an unsatisfactory task at the best [...] Few persons would rank the first dozen or so of the Eastern teams just alike, but there is one point on which there will be no dissenting voice and that is that Yale ranks first. Record 1 Yale 11–0–1 2 Princeton 8–1 3 Harvard 11–1 4 Army 6–1–1 5 Penn 9–4 6 Carlisle 8–3 7 Cornell 8–3 8 Bucknell 6–4 9 Amherst 7–3 10 Dartmouth 6–2–1 11 Navy 2–7–1 12 Lafayette 8–3 13 Brown 5–4–1 14 Syracuse 6–2–1 15 Columbia 6–4–1 16 Lehigh 7–3–1 See also 1902 College Football All-America Team References * Category:College football rankings