1907 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1907 August 2023 25em 1907 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1907 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1905 1906 ← → 1908 1909 The 1907 All-America college football team is composed of various organizations that chose All-America college football teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp. All-Americans of 1907 Ends thumb|right|140px|Albert Exendine of Carlisle Bill Dague, Navy (WC-1; NYT; CR) Clarence Alcott, Yale (WC-1; CW-2; NYH; NYP; CF) Albert Exendine, Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1; NYW; CR) Caspar Wister, Princeton (WC-3; CW-1; NYH; NYT; NYW; NYP, AFR) Hunter Scarlett, Penn (WC-2; FY-1) James Fox Macdonald, Harvard (WC-3; CW-2) Bob Blake, Vanderbilt (FY-1, AFR) Charles H. Watson, Cornell (CF) Tackles Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; CR) Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYT; NYW; NYP; FY-1; CF; CR [g], AFR) Bill Horr, Syracuse (WC-2; NYH) Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; NYP; CF) Henry J. Weeks, Army (WC-3; CW-2) Benjamin Lang, Dartmouth (WC-3) Walter Rheinschild, Michigan (FY-1) Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW) Edwin J. Donnelly, Trinity (CR) Guards Gus Ziegler, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; CF; CR, AFR) William Erwin, Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYT; FY-1; CF) Edward Rich, Dartmouth (WC-2) Elmer Thompson, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; NYH; NYW; NYP; FY-1, AFR) Francis Burr, Harvard (CW-2; NYP, AFR [as T]) William Goebel, Yale (WC-3) Walter Kreider, Swarthmore (WC-3) Centers thumb|right|145px|Germany Schulz is credited with inventing the spiral snap and the linebacker position. Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-2; FY-1; CF) Patrick Grant, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1; NYW; NYP; CR) W. J. Phillips, Princeton (WC-3; NYH) Frank Slingluff, Jr., Navy (NYT) Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (AFR) Quarterbacks Tad Jones, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; NYW; NYP; CF) Edward Dillon, Princeton (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1; CR) Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3) Frank Mount Pleasant, Carlisle (AFR) Halfbacks Jack Wendell, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; FY-1; CF; CR) Edwin Harlan, Princeton (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYP; FY-1, AFR) John L. Marks, Dartmouth (WC-2) A. H. Douglas,Referred to as "Tootsie" Douglass by the Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 6, 1907, article titled "All-Star Place for Douglass: Tennessee Boy Picked as One of Country's Greatest Backs" Navy (WC-3 [fb]; CW-2; NYT; CF) Bob Folwell, Penn (NYP; CR) George Capron, Minnesota (WC-3) Edward L. McCallie, Cornell (NYW) John Glaze, Dartmouth (AFR) thumb|140px|Ted Coy of Yale Fullbacks Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1 [hb]; NYH; NYP; FY-1; CF, CR, AFR) Jim McCormick, Princeton (WC-1; CW-2; NYT; NYW) Peter Hauser, Carlisle (WC-3 [hb]; CW-1; NYH [hb]) Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2) Key NCAA recognized selectors for 1907 WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter CampCamp Selects His All American Team Trenton Evening Times December 27, 1903 CW = Caspar WhitneyWhitney Picks Out the Champ Eleven: All-American Eleven Taken from the East La Crosse Tribune December 26, 1907Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette December 26, 1907 Other selectors NYH = New York HeraldAll-America Elevens Picked: Difference of Opinion by Experts; Biglow of Yale General Choice for Captain The Hartford Courant 14 December 9, 1907 https://secure.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/764274622.html?dids=764274622:764274622&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+09%2C+1907&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=ALL-AMERICA+ELEVENS+PICKED&pqatl=google https://archive.today/20130216161729/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/764274622.html?dids=764274622:764274622&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+09,+1907&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=ALL-AMERICA+ELEVENS+PICKED&pqatl=google dead February 16, 2013 NYT = New York Tribune NYW = New York World (Robert Edgren) NYP = New York Press FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan, for the North American Press Syndicate.COACH YOST AND HIS TEAM Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette December 2, 1907 ("Of all the football men in America, none has attained greater prominence than Fielding H. Yost, who has coached the University of Michigan for six years. Yost's football vision is broad. His football judgment is superior. His football pre-eminence is generally accepted. It is thus a matter of considerable football moment when Mr. Yost breaks his previous precedence and names an all-American football team. This he has done for the North American Press Syndicate.") CF = Carl Flanders CR = Constant Reader AFR = Abilene Semi Weekly Farm Reporter.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1985204/abilene_semi_weekly_farm_reporter/ Abilene Semi Weekly Farm Reporter Outlook Is Blue 2 March 14, 2015 November 23, 1907 Newspapers.com "selected not according to their weight, but their conception of the new game" Bold = Consensus All-AmericanFootball Award Winners National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2016 October 21, 2017 6 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf 1 – First-team selection 2 – Second-team selection 3 – Third-team selection See also 1907 All-Southern college football team 1907 All-Western college football team References 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams