1913 college football season

The 1913 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Auburn, Chicago, and Harvard as having been selected national champions.[1] All three teams finished with undefeated records. Chicago and Harvard officially claim national championships for the 1913 season.

Chicago was also the champion of the Western Conference, Missouri was champion of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA), and Colorado won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

  • One new conference began play in 1913:
    • Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin – active NCAA Division III conference now known as the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Membership changes

School1912 Conference1913 Conference
Kansas State WildcatsIndependentMVIAA
North Texas State Normal footballProgram EstablishedIndependent
Ohio State BuckeyesOACBig Nine (Western)
Western Kentucky State Normal HilltoppersProgram EstablishedIndependent

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1913 Missouri Valley football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Missouri + 4 0 0  7 1 0
Nebraska + 3 0 0  8 0 0
Kansas 3 2 0  5 3 0
Iowa State 2 2 0  4 4 0
Drake 1 3 0  4 3 1
Kansas State 0 2 0  3 4 1
Washington University 0 4 0  1 5 0
  • + Conference co-champions
1913 Rocky Mountain Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado $ 4 0 1  5 1 1
Colorado Mines 5 1 0  5 1 0
Colorado College 2 2 1  5 2 1
Colorado Agricultural $ 2 2 0  3 2 0
Utah 1 2 0  2 4 1
Denver 1 3 0  2 5 0
Wyoming 0 5 0  0 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
1913 South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
North Carolina A&M $ 2 0 0  6 1 0
Washington and Lee 3 1 0  8 1 0
Virginia 1 1 0  7 1 0
VPI 1 1 0  7 1 1
Georgetown 1 1 0  4 4 0
Johns Hopkins 0 2 0  0 3 0
North Carolina 0 3 0  5 4 0
  • $ Conference champion
1913 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Auburn $ 8 0 0  8 0 0
Mississippi A&M 4 1 1  6 1 1
Georgia 3 1 0  6 2 0
Vanderbilt 3 1 0  5 3 0
Georgia Tech 5 2 0  7 2 0
Alabama 4 3 0  6 3 0
LSU 1 1 2  6 1 2
Sewanee 2 2 0  4 3 0
Florida 2 2 0  4 3 0
Clemson 2 4 0  4 4 0
Mississippi College 1 2 0  6 3 0
Tennessee 1 3 0  6 3 0
The Citadel 0 3 1  3 4 2
Mercer 0 4 1  2 5 1
Kentucky 0 1 0  6 2 0
Texas A&M 0 1 1  3 4 2
Centre 0 2 0  2 5 0
Tulane 0 4 0  3 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
1913 Western Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Chicago $ 7 0 0  7 0 0
Iowa 2 1 0  5 2 0
Minnesota 2 1 0  5 2 0
Purdue 2 1 2  4 1 2
Illinois 2 2 1  4 2 1
Wisconsin 1 2 1  3 3 1
Ohio State 1 2 0  4 2 1
Indiana 2 4 0  3 4 0
Northwestern 0 6 0  1 6 0
  • $ Conference champion

Independents

1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 0
Carlisle      10 1 1
Wash. & Jeff.      10 0 1
Army      8 1 0
Dartmouth      7 1 0
Tufts      7 1 0
Colgate      6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall      6 2 0
Pittsburgh      6 2 1
Princeton      5 2 1
Yale      5 2 3
Rutgers      6 3 0
Penn      6 3 1
Villanova      4 2 1
Lehigh      5 3 0
Cornell      5 4 1
Boston College      4 3 1
Geneva      4 3 0
Syracuse      6 4 0
Fordham      3 3 2
Lafayette      4 5 1
Brown      4 5 0
Duquesne      3 5 1
Carnegie Tech      2 4 1
Temple      1 3 2
Penn State      2 6 0
Rhode Island State      2 6 0
NYU      0 8 0
1913 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Michigan Agricultural      7 0 0
Notre Dame      7 0 0
Western State (MI)      4 0 0
Haskell      10 1 0
Michigan      6 1 0
Lake Forest      5 1 1
Doane      5 1 2
St. Mary's (OH)      4 1 1
Wabash      5 2 0
Detroit      5 3 1
Heidelberg      4 3 0
Marquette      4 3 1
Mount Union      4 3 2
Saint Louis      5 4 1
Akron      3 4 0
Ohio Northern      4 6 1
Butler      2 4 1
Michigan State Normal      2 3 1
Fairmount      2 6 0
North Dakota Agricultural      0 2 2
1913 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Rice      4 0 0
Texas      7 1 0
Navy      7 1 1
VMI      7 1 2
Louisville      5 1 0
Middle Tennessee      5 1 1
Arkansas      7 2 0
Oklahoma      6 2 0
Kendall      5 2 0
Furman      6 3 0
Maryland      6 3 0
Ole Miss      6 3 1
Presbyterian      5 3 0
Richmond      5 3 1
Chattanooga      4 3 0
Oklahoma A&M      4 3 0
South Carolina      4 3 0
Baylor      4 4 2
Florida Southern      1 1 0
Southwest Texas      4 4 0
Spring Hill      3 3 0
West Virginia      3 4 2
Delaware      2 4 2
Catholic University      1 4 1
Davidson      2 5 0
William & Mary      0 5 1
Wake Forest      0 8 0
1913 Western college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Washington      7 0 0
New Mexico A&M      7 0 1
Oregon Agricultural      3 2 3
Washington State      4 4 0
Oregon      3 3 1
Idaho      3 3 0
Utah Agricultural      3 3 0
New Mexico      3 2 0
Arizona      2 2 0
Montana A&M      2 2 0
Montana      2 4 0

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association Hampton Institute 4–0
Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin Superior Normal
Whitewater Normal
5–0–1
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Kansas State Agricultural
Washburn College
2–1–1
2–0–2
Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Unknown
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Olivet 3–1
Ohio Athletic Conference Oberlin 5–0–1
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Fisk (TN)
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association Texas

Minor conference standings

1913 Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Southern Illinois        4 3 1
1913 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Oberlin $ 5 0 1  6 1 1
Ohio State 3 0 1  4 2 1
Denison 4 1 0  5 2 0
Miami (OH) 4 2 0  6 2 0
Cincinnati 4 2 1  5 3 1
Western Reserve 3 2 1  4 4 1
Case 3 3 0  4 5 0
Kenyon 1 3 1  5 3 1
Wooster 1 3 1  2 3 2
Ohio 1 3 0  2 5 1
Ohio Wesleyan 1 6 0  2 7 0
Wittenberg 0 5 0  3 7 0
  • $ Conference champion

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Ellery Huntington Jr. 5'9" 160 Sr. Nashville, Tennessee Colgate
QB Gus Dorais Sr. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Notre Dame
HB James B. Craig 160 Sr. Detroit, Michigan Michigan
HB Eddie Mahan 5'11" 171 So. Natick, Massachusetts Harvard
FB Charlie Brickley 5'10" 181 Jr. Everett, Massachusetts Harvard
E Robert Hogsett 5'6" 156 Sr. Cleveland, Ohio Dartmouth
T Miller Pontius 6'1" 189 Sr. Circleville, Ohio Michigan
T Bud Talbott 6'1" 190 Jr. Dayton, Ohio Yale
G John Brown Sr. Canton, Pennsylvania Navy
G Ray Keeler Jr. Bagley, Wisconsin Wisconsin
C Paul Des Jardien 6'5" 190 Jr. Chicago, Illinois Chicago
G Stan Pennock 5'8" 193 Jr. Syracuse, New York Harvard
T Harold Ballin 6'1" 194 Jr. New York, New York Princeton
T Harvey Hitchcock Sr. Kingdom of Hawaii Harvard
E Louis A. Merrilat Jr. Chicago, Illinois Army

Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Johnny Spiegel, Washington & Jefferson, 127
  • Passing yards leader: Gus Dorais, Notre Dame, 510+
  • Player scoring most field goals: Charlie Brickley, Harvard, 13

See also

References

  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
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