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The 1901 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing.
Caspar Whitney
Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1901, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty 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 (1901-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.
Rank TeamWhitney Caspar Whitney Caspar January 1902 Caspar Whitney XXXIX 4 477–487 The Sportsman's View-Point: Ranking of Teams [1901] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049760989&seq=497 Outing Outing Publishing Company January 26, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20120723104935/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_39/outXXXIX04/outXXXIX04v.pdf July 23, 2012 live Record 1 Harvard 12–0 2 Yale 11–1–1 3 Michigan 11–0 4 Wisconsin 9–0 5 Army 5–1–2 6 Princeton 9–1–1 7 Cornell 11–1 8 Wisconsin 9–3 9 Navy 6–4–1 10 Syracuse 7–1 11 Columbia 8–5 12 Pennsylvania 10–5 13 Minnesota 9–1–1 14 Dartmouth 10–1 15 Williams 6–4 16 Northwestern 8–2–1 17 Illinois 8–2 18 Chicago 8–6–2 19 Iowa 6–3 20 Tennessee 3–3–2
See also
1901 College Football All-America Team
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