1902 college football season

The 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Yale as having been selected national champions.[1]

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

Membership changes

School1901 Conference1902 Conference
Centre College merged with Central University ColonelsIndependentSIAA
Georgia Tech Yellow JacketsIndependentSIAA
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial footballProgram EstablishedIndependent

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1902 Western Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Michigan $ 5 –0 –0  11 –0 –0
Chicago 5 –1 –0  11 –1 –0
Minnesota 3 –1 –0  9 –2 –1
Illinois 4 –2 –0  10 –2 –1
Purdue 2 –2 –0  7 –2 –1
Wisconsin 1 –3 –0  6 –3 –0
Iowa 0 –3 –0  5 –4 –0
Northwestern 0 –4 –0  6 –6 –0
Indiana 0 –4 –0  3 –5 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1902 CFA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado $ 4 –0 –0  5 –1 –0
Colorado Mines 2 –1 –1  4 –1 –2
Colorado College 2 –2 –0  3 –4 –0
Denver 1 –3 –0  3 –4 –1
Colorado Agricultural 0 –3 –1  1 –3 –2
  • $ – Conference champion
1902 college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Nebraska   –    9 –0 –0
California   –    8 –0 –0
Harvard   –    11 –1 –0
Virginia   –    8 –1 –1
South Carolina   –    6 –1 –0
Stanford   –    6 –1 –0
Washington   –    5 –1 –0
Army   –    6 –1 –1
North Carolina   –    5 –1 –3
Dartmouth   –    6 –2 –1
Notre Dame   –    6 –2 –1
Utah   –    5 –2 –1
Oregon Agricultural   –    4 –1 –1
Penn State   –    7 –3 –0
Villanova   –    4 –3 –0
Oregon   –    3 –1 –3
Western U. of Penn.   –    5 –6 –1
Washington Agricultural   –    2 –3 –0
USC   –    2 –3 –0
Montana   –    0 –2 –0
Maryland   –    3 –5 –2
Navy   –    2 –7 –1
1902 SIAA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Clemson $ 5 –0 –0  6 –1 –0
Vanderbilt 5 –1 –0  8 –1 –0
LSU + 5 –1 –0  6 –1 –0
Texas 4 –1 –0  6 –3 –1
Sewanee 4 –2 –0  7 –2 –0
Tennessee 4 –2 –0  6 –2 –0
Georgia 4 –2 –1  4 –2 –1
Ole Miss 3 –3 –0  4 –3 –0
Auburn 2 –4 –1  2 –4 –1
Alabama 2 –4 –0  4 –4 –0
Furman 1 –2 –1  4 –3 –4
Davidson 1 –2 –0  3 –5 –1
Nashville 1 –2 –0  1 –3 –0
Cumberland 1 –3 –0  1 –3 –0
Kentucky State 0 –2 –0  4 –6 –1
Tulane 0 –3 –2  1 –4 –2
Mississippi A&M 0 –4 –1  1 –4 –1
Georgia Tech 0 –5 –2  0 –6 –2
  • $ – Conference champion
  • + LSU claims a co-championship[2]

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Alma 4–1–0
Ohio Athletic Conference Case School of Applied Science 5–0–0

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Foster Rockwell So. Vermont Yale
HB George B. Chadwick Sr. Brooklyn, New York Yale
HB Thomas A. Barry Sr. Brockton, Massachusetts Brown
FB Blondy Graydon Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio Harvard
E Tom Shevlin 5'10" 195 Fr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
T Ralph Kinney Jr. Yale
T James Hogan 5'10" 210 So. County Tipperary, Ireland Yale
G Edgar Glass Sr. Syracuse, New York Yale
G John DeWitt 6'1" 198 Jr. Phillipsburg, New Jersey Princeton
C Henry Holt Sr. Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York Yale
C Robert Boyers Sr. Bellaire, Ohio Army
G Bill Warner 6'4" 210 Sr. Springville, New York Cornell
T Paul Bunker 5'11" 186 Sr. Alpena, Michigan Army
E Edward Bowditch Jr. Albany, New York Harvard

Statistical leaders

  • Team scoring most points: Michigan, 644
  • Player scoring most points: Albert E. Herrnstein, Michigan, 130
  • Rushing leader:: Willie Heston, Michigan, 487
  • Rushing avg leader: Willie Heston, 8.7
  • Rushing touchdowns leader: Al Herrnstein, 26

References

  1. ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  2. ↑ "2017 LSU Tigers Media Guide" (PDF). Louisiana State Athletics. p. 107. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
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