1.
College Football All-America Team
–
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. Camp took over the responsibility for picking the All-America team and was recognized as the selector in the early years of the 20th century. com. As of 2009, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recognizes the All-America teams selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News, if three of these organizations select a player to their first team, he automatically receives the consensus honor. If a player is named an All-American by all five organizations, depending upon the distribution of first team honors at any given position, it is possible to be consensus with fewer than three first-team selections. The University of Notre Dame has produced the most unanimous All Americans of any program, there have been 2,868 players from 156 colleges and universities since 1889 who were selected to at least one All-American first team. It has selected an All-America team since 1925, the American Football Coaches Association has selected an All-America team every year since 1945. It is often referred to as the Coaches All-America Team, the Coaches’ All-America Team has been sponsored by various entities throughout the years but it is now under its own banner, the AFCA. These are the sponsors/publishers of the team throughout the years and it is sometimes referred to as the Writers All-America Team. The FWAA has selected an All-America team with the help of its members, the All-America team is selected by a committee of writers representing all conferences and regions of the NCAA. The Writers Team has been highlighted in various media forums, from 1946-70, Look published the FWAA team and brought players and selected writers to New York City for a celebration. During that 25-year period, the FWAA team was introduced on television shows by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Perry Como. After Look folded, the FWAA started an association with NCAA Films. The team was part of ABC Televisions 1981 College Football Series, from 1983-90, the team was either on ABC or ESPN, and since 1991 has returned to the national spotlight on ABC. The corporate sponsor for the Writers team is AT&T, after years of Cingular being the sponsor. Walter Camp, The Father of American Football, first selected an All-America team in 1889, the WCF claims an 80% participation rate in the voting for its All-America team. Sporting News, formerly known as The Sporting News and known colloquially as TSN, have teams college football editors and staff select teams, from that year through the 1962 season TSNs All-America team was picked by a poll of sportswriters. Beginning in 1964 the team was selected by professional scouts and observers, the Sporting News cited the advent of two-platoon football as the need to go to that system. United Press International is a organization that selected players in a national poll of sportswriters
2.
1898 College Football All-America Team
–
The organizations that chose the teams included Colliers Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald. The 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams, michigan center William Cunningham and Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had selected from among five Ivy League teams – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn
3.
Walter Camp
–
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the Father of American Football. Among a long list of inventions, he created the line of scrimmage. With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost and he attended Yale College, where he played and coached college football. Camps Yale teams of 1888,1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions, Camp was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951. Camp wrote articles and books on the gridiron and sports in general, by the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles. Camp was born in the city of New Britain, Connecticut, Walter Camp was of English descent. He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, entered Yale College in 1875, at Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Linonian Society, and Skull and Bones. He attended Yale Medical School from 1880 to 1883, where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of typhoid fever, in 1873, he attended a meeting where representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities created the intercollegiate football association. They created the rule that each team is only allowed 15 plays per drive and he played as a halfback at Yale from 1876 to 1882. Harvard player Nathaniel Curtis took one look at Camp, then only 156 pounds and he worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors. On June 30,1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of sociologist William Graham Sumner and they had two children, Walter Camp, Jr. who attended Yale as well and was elected as a member of Scroll and Key in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell. Camp served as the football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 before moving to Stanford University. On Christmas 1894, he and Amos Alonzo Staggs Chicago Maroons organized an early intersectional contest, Camp was on the various collegiate football rules committees that developed the American game from his time as a player at Yale until his death. English Rugby rules at the time required a player, when the ball was fairly held. College Football 1880 rules convention that the contested scrimmage be replaced with a line of scrimmage where the team with the ball started with uncontested possession and this change effectively created the evolution of the modern game of American football from its rugby football origins. This is significant as rugby union has no point value award for this action, the NCAA emerged from the national talks, but worked to Yales disadvantage relative to rival Harvard, according to Branch. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and his stories also appeared in major daily newspapers throughout the United States. He also selected an annual All-American team, by the age of 33, twelve years after graduating from Yale, Walter Camp had already become known as the Father of Football
4.
Harper's Weekly
–
Harpers Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and it carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast, along with his brothers James, John, and Wesley, Fletcher Harper began the publishing company Harper & Brothers in 1825. Following the successful example of the Illustrated London News, Harper started publishing Harpers Magazine in 1850, in 1857, his company began publishing Harpers Weekly in New York City. By 1860 the circulation of the Weekly had reached 200,000, among the recurring features were the political cartoons of Thomas Nast, who was recruited in 1862 and worked with the Weekly for more than 20 years. Nast was a feared caricaturist, and is called the father of American political cartooning. He was the first to use an elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party and he also drew the legendary character of Santa Claus, his version became strongly associated with the figure, who was popularized as part of Christmas customs in the late nineteenth century. Harpers Weekly was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War, so as not to upset its wide readership in the South, Harpers took a moderate editorial position on the issue of slavery. Publications that supported abolition referred to it as Harpers Weakly, the Weekly had supported the Stephen A. Douglas presidential campaign against Abraham Lincoln, but as the American Civil War broke out, it fully supported Lincoln and the Union. The photograph inspired many free blacks in the North to enlist, some of the most important articles and illustrations of the time were Harpers reporting on the war. Besides renderings by Homer and Nast, the magazine also published illustrations by Theodore R. Davis, Henry Mosler, and the brothers Alfred and William Waud. In 1863, George William Curtis, one of the founders of the Republican Party, became the editor of the magazine. His editorials advocated civil service reform, low tariffs, and adherence to the gold standard, after the war, Harpers Weekly more openly supported the Republican Party in its editorial positions, and contributed to the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 and 1872. It supported the Radical Republican position on Reconstruction, in the 1870s, the cartoonist Thomas Nast began an aggressive campaign in the journal against the corrupt New York political leader William Boss Tweed. Nast turned down a $500,000 bribe to end his attack, Tweed was arrested in 1873 and convicted of fraud. Nast and Harpers also played an important part in securing Rutherford B. Hayes 1876 presidential election, later on Hayes remarked that Nast was the most powerful, single-handed aid had. After the election, Nasts role in the magazine diminished considerably, since the late 1860s, Nast and George W. Curtis had frequently differed on political matters and particularly on the role of cartoons in political discourse. Harpers publisher Fletcher Harper strongly supported Nast in his disputes with Curtis, in 1877, Harper died, and his nephews, Joseph W. Harper Jr. and John Henry Harper, assumed control of the magazine
5.
Caspar Whitney
–
Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in football in 1889 when he worked for Harpers Magazine. He was educated at Saint Mathews College in California, during the Spanish–American War, Whitney submitted articles from the front in Cuba. At the Battle of Las Guasimas, he accompanied General Youngs 1st and his published map of the battle is considered the most accurate of that action published at that time. His depiction of the fighting on the right is made from personal observation and his depiction of the left where the Rough Riders fought was based on post-battle interviews. He was a member of The Explorers Club after expeditions in North and South America. As a sports journalist he was an advocate of amateurism and was a member of the International Olympic Committee. He wrote on a range of subjects including big-game hunting, inter collegiate sporting contests, amateur versus professional contests. In the early 1900s, he edited The American Sportsmans Library, Whitney testified in a lawsuit against him that he earned a salary of $8,000 for editing Outing and $1,500 for editing the American Sportsmans Library. Whitney married three times, Anna Childs in 1889, Cora Adele Chase in 1897 and Florence Canfield in 1909, the latter was the daughter of the colorful miner and industrialist Charles A. Canfield. She participated in founding the League of Women Voters and remained active politically until her death in a vehicle accident in 1941. Sporting Pilgrimage On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds Hawaiian America Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat Jungle Trails, gott mit Uns - the Boche Delusion Hunt Clubs and Country Clubs in America Charles Adelbert Canfield Dillon Wallace Papers Edgar Rice Burroughs Library Explorers Club History
6.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
–
Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslies Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852 and published until 1922. It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie, the Illustrated Newspaper was founded in 1852. John Y. Foster was the first editor of the weekly, there were 30 copies of the first edition printed. By 1897, its circulation had grown to an estimated 65,000 copies, after Leslies death in 1880, the magazine was continued by his widow, the womens suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie. The name, by then a well-established trademark, remained also after 1902 and it often took a strongly patriotic stance and frequently featured cover pictures of soldiers and heroic battle stories. It also gave extensive coverage to less martial events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were Louisa May Alcott, H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, Eleanor Franklin Egan, and Ellis Parker Butler. Several notable illustrators worked for the publication, including Albert Berghaus and Norman Rockwell, who created covers for the magazine in its latter years, and Fernando Mirando y Casellas. Surviving copies of the magazine at present fetch handsome prices as collectors items and are considered to give a picture of American life during the decades of its publication
7.
Garrett Cochran
–
Garrett Cochran was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Princeton University from 1894 to 1897 at the end position, Cochran served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley, the United States Naval Academy and Princeton University, compiling a career head coaching record of 29–5–3. During World War I, Cochran enlisted in the United States Army and he developed pneumonia and died on a ship returning to the United States on July 8,1918. In 1971, Cochran was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Garrett Cochran at the College Football Hall of Fame Garrett Cochran at the College Football Data Warehouse
8.
Sam Boyle
–
Samuel Alexander Boyle, Jr. was an American football player and coach. Boyle played end for the University of Pennsylvania and was declared a first-team All-American in 1897, Boyle was the head coach at Pennsylvania State University in 1899. His record at Penn State was 4–6–1 and his squad was outscored 104 to 176 that season. After one year at Penn State, Boyle became the head football coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His overall coaching record at Dickinson was 5 wins,4 losses and this ranks him 20th at Dickinson in terms of total wins and eighth at Dickinson in terms of winning percentage. In his one year as coach, Boyle oversaw the largest defeat in college football history when Dickinson College defeated Haverford Grammar School 227 to 0. Boyle continued to work around sports as an official and umpire. He also worked as a player/coach for the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, sam Boyle at the College Football Data Warehouse
9.
Burr Chamberlain
–
Chamberlain was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University from 1896 to 1898 at the center, three times he was an All-American. He also coached football at the United States Military Academy, the University of Virginia, Chamberlain was born in Dalton, Massachusetts on August 21,1877. He died of an attack at his home in Bronxville. Burr Chamberlain at the College Football Data Warehouse
10.
John H. Outland
–
John Henry Outland was an American football player and coach. He played football at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the University of Kansas, and he was twice named an All-American while playing for the Penn Quakers, in 1897 as a tackle and in 1898 as a halfback. He is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, an award established in 1946. Outland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2001 and he grew up mostly in Johnson County, Kansas in the towns of Lexington, Kansas and Edgerton, Kansas though. He was a member of the first football team at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Outland captained the team in 1892, scoring 32 of the teams 36 points. After starring in football and baseball at the University of Kansas in 1895 and 1896, there he became one of the few men ever to win All-American football honors as both lineman and the backfield player. He was picked by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1897, in 1898, he was selected again, this time as a halfback. He was captain of the 1898 Pennsylvania team and was voted Most Popular Man at the University of Pennsylvania, Outland worked his way through college and spent his last two summers as a companion to rich young men who were alcoholics. To keep them away from alcohol, Outland took them on camping trips in the Wyoming mountains, in 1900, Outland coached the football team at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for one season. His team produced a record of 4–5 and he was the 11th coach of the program that began in 1887. Outland was the head football coach for the University of Kansas Jayhawks located in Lawrence, Kansas. His overall coaching record at Kansas was 3–5–2, Outland also coached at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He was the head football coach for Washburn and he held that position for two seasons, from 1904 until 1905. His overall coaching record at Washburn was 14–5, outlands 1905 season ended with an experimental game with Fairmount University where a new rule forcing the offense to earn a first down in three plays instead of four was in effect. The experiment was considered a failure, on January 28,1902 Outland married Ethel Arnett Grimes in her hometown of Dana, Indiana. He then moved his practice to Topeka, Kansas in 1904 in order to coach the Washburn University football team. In 1906 Outland moved his family to Kansas City, Kansas where he joined the very first staff of the brand new Trinity-Lutheran hospital in Kansas City, Missouri as a general practicing surgeon. Later, in about 1916, while still on staff with Trinity-Lutheran hospital he moved his family across state lines to Kansas City, upon his retirement he moved to Laguna Beach, California
11.
Outland Trophy
–
The Outland Trophy is awarded to the best United States college football interior lineman by the Football Writers Association of America. It is named after John H. Outland, one of only a few players ever to be named All-America at two positions, Outland garnered consensus All-America honors in 1898 at tackle and consensus All-America honors at halfback in 1899. The past five winners are Joshua Garnett, Brandon Scherff, Aaron Donald, Luke Joeckel, in the fall of 1895, John Outland entered the University of Kansas. He had previously played football for two seasons and had been captain at William Penn in Iowa. While watching practice one afternoon at Kansas, he was seen by the varsity captain who induced him to put on a uniform, three days later, he was playing on the varsity team. After a 6–1 season, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he found his home, from 1897–99, Outland and Hall of Fame teammate Truxtun Hare led Penn to a 35–4–3 record. Outland obtained his degree and was a surgeon during World War I. He tried his hand at coaching at Franklin & Marshall College in 1900, Kansas in 1901, Outland had always contended that football tackles and guards deserved greater recognition and conceived the Outland Trophy as a means of providing this recognition. In 1988, Jim Ridlon was commissioned to design and sculpt the Outland Trophy, lombardi Award UPI Lineman of the Year Outland Trophy website
12.
James O. Rodgers
–
James Otis Rodgers was an American football player and coach. Rodgers played college football for Yale University from 1894 to 1897 and was captain of Yales 1897 football team and he also served as the head coach of the 1899 Yale football team. He later had a career as an insurance broker. Rodgers was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1874 and he was the son of James Scott Rodgers and Mary L. Rodgers. His father was a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Toledo, Rodgers attended preparatory school at the Andover Academy where he competed for the schools football and track teams. Rodgers enrolled at Yale University where he played at the tackle position for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1894 to 1897. He was elected by his teammates as the captain of Yales 1897 football team, during his four years as a player, the Yale football team compiled an overall record of 51–1–4, and has been recognized as national champions in three of the four years. Rodgers also rowed for Yales varsity crew in 1896 and competed with Yales crew in England as part of the Henley regatta of 1896. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale in 1898 and was voted in his year as the man who has done the most for Yale. After graduating from Yale, Rodgers enrolled at Harvard Law School, Rodgers returned to Yale as the head football coach in the fall of 1899. Due to the demands of his studies, Rodgers was unable to spend all of his time with the football team and was assisted by Walter Camp. Rodgers coached the 1899 Yale football team to a 7–2–1 record, Rodgers also served as the crew coach at Yale, and also coached rowing at the New York Athletic Club. During the period from 1899 to 1912, Yale had 14 different head coaches in 14 years – despite compiling a combined record of 127–11–10 in those years. Rodgers left Harvard Law School after two years to accept a position as president and general manager of the Lanyon Zinc Company of Iola. He later became president of that company, Rodgers returned to New York in 1917 and spent the remainder of his career working as an insurance broker. Rodgers was married to Cara Worthington Hale in April 1902 at Cleveland and they had a son, James O. Rodgers, Jr. Rodgers died of a heart attack in May 1945 at the New Rochelle Hospital in New Rochelle, New York. James O. Rodgers at the College Football Data Warehouse
13.
Art Hillebrand
–
Arthur Ralph Thomas Doc Hillebrand was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played college football as a tackle for Princeton University, Hillebrand was also the head baseball coach at Navy and Princeton during the same years, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 65–31. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1970, Hillebrand was the ninth head football at the United States Naval Academy located in Annapolis, Maryland and he held that position for two seasons, from 1901 until 1902. His coaching record at Navy was 8–11–2, Art Hillebrand at the College Football Hall of Fame Art Hillebrand at the College Football Data Warehouse
14.
Truxtun Hare
–
Thomas Truxtun Hare was an American track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw and all-rounder events. He was also a football player for the Penn Quakers football team of the University of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1900. Hare is one of only a handful of men to earn All-American honors during all four years of college and he was selected as a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. While primarily a guard, he ran, punted, kicked off. In an attempt to name retroactive Heisman Trophy winners before the first one was awarded in 1935, Hare was awarded the mythical 1900 trophy. He won the medal in the hammer throw in the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, as well as placing eighth in the shot put. A prominent student at Penn, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, he was involved in many other sports, including archery and track. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Tom Kielly and Adam Gunn won gold and silver respectively. He also was on the medal winning tug of war team in those same Olympics. He competed in the 1904 Olympics just after he earned a J. D. law degree at Penn and he later practiced law in Philadelphia, excelled as a painter, and authored two series of books. The first, the Kent of Malvern series, consisted of four books, depicting the development of a naughty boy into a young man. The next series, The Graduate Coach series, consisted of five volumes and was a celebration of the importance of sports in a mans life, both were published by the Penn Press and were best sellers. He later became President of the Bryn Mawr Hospital, succeeding his brother C and he and his wife Katherine Sargent Hare lived in Radnor on a farm known as Lime House and had four children. His elder son, Truxtun Hare, Jr. was also an All American football player at Yale, Truxtun served in the Navy and the CIA, and was President of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1957 to 1970. The name Truxtun is taken from the surname of their forebear, University of Pennsylvania Historical Biography Truxtun Hare at the College Football Hall of Fame
15.
Gordon Brown (guard)
–
Francis Gordon Skim Brown was an American college football player. He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1897 to 1900, in 1900, he captained the Yale football team which was referred to as the Team of the Century. He was also a leader of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Brown was born in New York City, September 6,1879, to Francis Gordon Brown, Sr. after his college career, he entered the banking business, before he died from diabetes at age 31. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and he is the namesake of the Gordon Brown Memorial Prize. Gordon Brown at the College Football Hall of Fame
16.
Charles Rinehart
–
Charles Ramsay Rinehart was an American football player, engineer and businessman. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and he played high school football at Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Rinehart attended Lafayette and played at guard on the schools 1896 team. At 63 and 210 pounds, Babe or Riny was the biggest man on the team and that season Rinehart and Lafayette fought Princeton to a scoreless tie. The two teams were later named co-national champions for the season 37 years later by Coach Davis, Rinehart captained and played quarterback for the team in 1897. He graduated from Lafayette in 1899 and became an engineer, Rinehart was serving as the president of a tire company at the time of his death. From 1898 until 1900, Rinehart played professional football for the Greensburg Athletic Association
17.
Josiah McCracken
–
Josiah Calvin McCracken was an American football player and track and field athlete. Josiah Calvin McCracken, nicknamed Joe, was born in Lincoln and his earliest known Ulster-Scots ancestors settled in Pennsylvania before the French & Indian War. When Joe was 8 years old, his parents moved to Garnett, Kansas, and by the age of 17, Joe excelled at both football as well as track & field events while a school boy in Kansas. He was heavily recruited by the Universities of Kansas, Cornell, the 1896 University of Kansas football coach was Hector Cowan a Princeton graduate, an 1889 Walter Camp All American football player and a future member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Cowan in addition to coaching KU football was a Presbyterian minister, Joe McCracken was raised in a devout Presbyterian family. Both McCracken and Outland would graduate from Penn with degrees in medicine, unlike Cornell and Penn, the University of Kansas did not have a Medical School in 1896. While at Penn, McCracken was an all around student athlete, playing varsity football four years, Joe was named to Walter Camps College All American football team on three occasions. He was a 3rd team All American in 1897, a 2nd team All American in 1898, McCracken played primarily as an offensive fullback and defensive guard. During 1899 he played alongside John Outland and A. R. Kennedy, McCracken, Outland and Kennedy were known around Philadelphias Franklin Field as the Kansas Musketeers. During McCrackens four years of playing football at Penn the football team compiled a 47-5-2 record, on May 31,1898, Joe set a World Record in the hammer throw with a distance of 46. 83m at a meet in New Jersey. After college he won a silver and bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics, a New York Times article of April 11,1901 described him as the University of Pennsylvanias best all around athlete and the most popular man at the university. McCrackens previous world record in the hammer throw earned him a spot on the U. S. Olympic team, McCracken and Garrett were replaced with athletes from Hungary and Greece. Richard Sheldon also representing the USA, elected to participate on Sunday, fortunately, McCrackens and Garretts Saturday qualifying results in the shot put were good enough to earn them silver and bronze medals respectively in the shot put event. McCracken also received the medal in the hammer throw. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, McCracken remained involved in football as both a game official and coach. During his medical residency and internship period, McCracken was a referee, linesman or time-keeper for many Ivy League varsity games. In 1903, he returned to Kansas for one season as the Cooper College football coach, McCracken Field at Sterling Colleges Smisor Stadium is named in his honor. Also in 1903, three Penn 1900 Olympic athletes— Alexander Grant, George W. Orton and Joe McCracken—established Camp Tecumseh, the camp’s mission now as it was then, is “to make good boys better” through healthy athletic competition
18.
Pete Overfield
–
Peter Delome Pete Overfield was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 1899 and he served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909 to 1917. In 1917, he moved to Casa Grande, Arizona where he lived for the remainder of his life, Overfield played center for the Penn Quakers from 1897 to 1899 and was selected as a first-team All-American in both 1898 and 1899. Overfield was known as a fierce competitor, after Harvard defeated Penn 16–0 in 1899, Overfield tried to prevent Harvard from securing the ball as a trophy in accordance with a custom. A scuffle spread into the stands, and Penns coach ultimately secured the ball from Overfield, after graduating from Penn, Overfield remained active in football. He was a coach for a time at Multnomah College. Overfield played a total of nine years of college and professional football without ever suffering an injury and he played on the famed 1900 and 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football teams in Pittsburgh. The 1901 Homestead team consisted of college football All-Americans, including Overfield, Bemus Pierce. The team beat Lafayette 66–0 in two ten-minute halves, on November 23,1901, the Homestead Library team featuring Overfield defeated the Blondy Wallaces Philadelphia professionals for the professional football championship of the United States. The game was played at the Philadelphia park, and Homestead won by a score of 18 to 0, the New York Times reported on the game as follows, Against the well-trained, concerted team work of Homestead they were like so many pigmies. Their line could not hold the fast onslaught of the Western contingent, … The 5,000 spectators present shivered through thirty minute halves and at no time during the game was a real opportunity offered to get enthusiastic over the work of Wallaces team. It was a made up of stars against well-trained team work. In 1903, Overfield played in a Thanksgiving Day game in Denver on a team composed of old stars of the Sigma Chi fraternity. The 1903 Sigma Chi All-Star team was made up of former All-Americans, including Overfield, Thorpe, Hernstein, Stahl, Starbuck, Van Valken, in 1923, Princeton head coach William Roper named Overfield as the center on his All-Time All-Eastern football team. Roper wrote, Pete Overfield would be equipped to act as pivot on any team today just as he was when he played for Pennsylvania twenty-odd years ago. If my recollection is correct Overfield was down the field on kicks with the ends and he was a sure passer and a wonderful defensive man. He played in a day of a line, with the center on the line of scrimmage on every play. In 1906, Overfield moved to Nome, Alaska where he practiced law from 1906-1909, in 1909, Overfield was appointed by President William Howard Taft as a federal district judge serving in the third judicial district of Alaska
19.
Charles de Saulles
–
Charles A. de Saulles was an All-American football player. He played quarterback for Yale University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team, a native of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, de Saulles attended the Lawrenceville School where he was captain of both the football and baseball teams. DeSaulles was five-feet, eight inches tall and weighed 151 pounds, De Saulles enrolled at Yale University where he played quarterback for the football team in 1897 and 1898 and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. He was also the captain of Yales baseball team, jim Rodgers, the captain of the 1897 Yale football team, credited de Saulles with Yales victory over Princeton in 1897, I have always claimed that Charlie de Saulles put the Yale 97 team on the map. Charlie de Saulles with his three runs, which averaged not less than 60 yards each, really brought about the victory. In his book Football Days, William Hanford Edwards, who played on the Princeton line in game, wrote of de Saulles. I remember well the great run of fifty-five yards which he made and he was a wonderfully clever dodger and used the stiff arm well. Charles Ives wrote a song about this game titled simply Yale-Princeton Football Game. In 1903, a football columnist wrote that the equal of Charley de Saulles, however, in 1906, the New York Sun reported that de Saulles was affiliated with the Lasharpe football team in Iola, Kansas. De Saulles joined the team in 1905 as both a player and a coach and its members never train, have no practice except signal work, and yet are able to defeat all comers. The eleven is known as the Lasharpe team, is composed of men from the smelting works. James Rodgers, captain of the 97 Yale eleven, and Charles A. De Saulles was born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and his father was a noted soldier in the American Civil War. His younger brother John de Saulles also became an All-American quarterback at Yale, johnny is a brother of Charlie de Saulles, the great football and baseball player of 1898 and 1899, and his work is true to family traditions. De Saulles plays second base, and he is snappy and accurate, Charles de Saulles was married to Louise M. Birdie Hoch of Marshall, Michigan. In 1922, De Saulles wife obtained a divorce and was awarded custody of their two sons and it was also reported at that time that Charles de Saulles had remarried. In August 1917, John de Saulles was shot and killed by his millionairess Chilean ex-wife, the murder and trial became a daily reported news story, relegating the First World War that was raging in Europe to the inside pages of the newspapers. Charles de Saulles was drawn into the media sensation as he defended his brothers honor, Blanca was unanimously acquitted of the murder charges in December 1917. Several days after the acquittal, Charles gave up the custody challenge, and Little Jack was returned to Blanca
20.
Leon Kromer
–
Leon Benjamin Kromer was a United States Army officer and American football coach. From 1934 to 1938, Major General Kromer was the Chief of U. S. Cavalry and he served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1901, compiling a record of 5–1–2. Kromer was born in 1876 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kromer graduated from West Point in February 1899 and began his service as a commissioned officer in the 10th Cavalry Regiment. In 1901, Kromer was the coach for the Army football team. The New York Times of 1930s noted that many contemporary U. S. Generals were connected by past football experience at West Point, Kromer also fenced for West Point against the Navy. In 1918, Kromer served on the Western Front with the 82nd Division, in the beginning of 1934 Kromer was appointed Chief of Cavalry. The future of cavalry was uncertain, it remained the forward reconnaissance element of the Army. Analysis of the maneuvers by Kromers staff indicated that he considered marrying machine with the horse. He cautiously envisioned combat cars assisting the horsed cavalry in closing with the enemy, in a foreword to the 1937 Cavalry Combat Kromer wrote that mobility was antithesis to static warfare, open flanks created by cavalry increased the magnitude of operations supported by horse troops. Only nine of 512 paged in this book were dedicated to mechanization, Kromer was dissatisfied with the growing organizational rift between horse and mechanized elements of U. S. Cavalry, and redesigned the structure to close the gap. He endorsed expansion of mechanized units at Fort Knox although shortage of funds ruled out any massive changes, Kromer was an open-minded man who did not perceive mechanization as a threat to horse cavalry, rather, he tried to adapt to a change and give each a role. Kromer retired in a moment in March 1938 and was replaced by John Knowles Herr. During World War II, Kromer returned to service as the commandant of Norwich University, Kromer died in 1966 in Germantown, Maryland. Kromers son, captain William A. Kromer, became a soldier and was killed in action in Europe January 1,1945, Kromer Jr. joined the Navy during World War II and served with Admiral Lewis Combs. After the war he headed industrial associations and served as labor relations advisor under presidents Kennedy, daughter, Jane Kromer, married Reverend C. D. Kean. The regulars, the American Army, 1898-1941, through mobility we conquer, the mechanization of U. S. Cavalry. Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers, Innovation in the U. S. Army, leon Kromer at the College Football Data Warehouse
21.
David F. Weeks
–
David Fairchild Weeks was an American football player, coach, and doctor. He was the first head coach at Massachusetts Agricultural College—now the University of Massachusetts Amherst, holding the position for one season, in 1898. Weeks graduated in 1897 from the University of Pennsylvania and played quarterback for the Penn Quakers football team, Weeks was born in 1874 to Henry Martin Weeks, a doctor, and Mary Malvina Fairchild Weeks. He married Maude Adele Clampitt in Pennsylvania in 1902, Weeks later practiced medicine after his graduation from Penn, briefly in Pennsylvania and his home state of New Jersey. He is buried in Blawenburg Reformed Church Cemetery in Somerset County, david F. Weeks at the College Football Data Warehouse
22.
Benjamin Dibblee
–
Benjamin Harrison Dibblee was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for Harvard University from 1896 to 1898, and was a consensus All-American in 1897 and 1898, Dibblee served as the head football coach for Harvard from 1899 to 1900, compiling a 20–1–1. His 1899 team was recognized as a national champion by a number of selectors. Dibblee attended preparatory school at the Groton School where he played on the football team, Dibblee was small for a football player, even by the standards of the 1890s, standing 5 feet, 8-8½ inches, and weighing only 156 pounds. He enrolled at Harvard in 1895 and played on the football team that year. In 1896, he played on the varsity team where he played in one or two games at fullback and he was a starter for Harvard throughout his junior season in 1897. In late November 1897, Dibblee was elected by his teammates as the captain of the 1898 Harvard football team, in March 1899, Dibblee was appointed as head coach of the Harvard football team. As of 1913, Dibblee was the Pacific coast manager for a firm of brokers, Dibblee died on November 11,1945 at the Joy Island Duck club near Fairfield, California. Benjamin Dibblee at the College Football Data Warehouse
23.
Dave Fultz
–
David Lewis Fultz was an American football and baseball player and coach. In a seven-season career, Fultz posted a.271 batting average with 223 RBI, Fultz played college football and college baseball at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1898. He served as the football coach at the University of Missouri, Lafayette College, Brown. Fultz was also the baseball coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1907. A native of Staunton, Virginia, Fultz graduated in 1898 with a law degree from Brown University, signed by the Phillies the same year, he played for them in part of two seasons and went to Baltimore in the 1899 midseason and played under John McGraw. With McGraw, Fultz developed as a base stealer, and in hit and run. When the American League was created, Fultz joined the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack in 1901, appearing at shortstop and second base, Fultz led his team with 36 stolen bases and hit.292 with 95 runs scored. His most productive came in 1902, when he stole 44 bases, hit a career-high.302. On September 4, he stole second base, third and home, from 1903 to 1905, Fultz played for the New York Highlanders when Clark Griffith managed the team. During the offseason and in his time he attended New York Law School. Fultz averaged 30 stolen bases per season with a high 42 in 1905 and that season, he suffered a late September collision with teammate Kid Elberfeld, breaking his nose and jaw, and retired at 31 age. Fultz also played football in 1900 and 1901 with the Homestead Library & Athletic Club. In 1901 he was named the teams captain, prior to playing for Homestead, Fultz played football for the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club in 1899. Fultz served as the football coach at the University of Missouri, Lafayette College, Brown University. He also coached baseball at the United States Naval Academy, Columbia University, Fultz got his first coaching job in 1898 as the eighth head football coach at the University of Missouri. Missouri finished with a 1–4–1 record under Fultz and he returned to coach the Tigers for one game in 1900, a victory, before handing over the reins to his former Brown teammate, Fred W. Murphy. Ernest Cleveland E. C. White coached Missouri to a 9–2 record in 1899, in 1902, Fultz returned to coaching at Lafayette College and posted a record of 8–3. In six of the victories, the opponents were held scoreless, in 1904 Fultz became the seventh head football coach at the New York University
24.
George B. Walbridge
–
Walbridge was living near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania in what was then known as Stony Fork when he enrolled at Lafayette in 1894. Walbridge was selected by Walter Camp as a third team All-American in 1897, with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Walbridge enlisted, serving as a private in the light artillery in Puerto Rico. Upon returning to life, he graduated from Cornell with a degree in civil engineering in 1900. Starting out as a draftsman, Walbridge worked his way up and he spent six years with D. Burnham and Company in Chicago before joining Hedden Construction Company of New York City as general superintendent. He resigned that position to become president of the George F. Fuller Company of New York City. In 1916, he co-founded Walbridge Aldinger in what was becoming the motor city, according to the Walbridge company website, his partner Aldinger, a German immigrant, was a banker who founded a construction company in Canada shortly before meeting George Walbridge. Both men became widely respected industry leaders who were instrumental in founding the Associated General Contractors of America, Walbridge felt the call of service to his country again with Americas involvement in World War I, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Engineers Corp. With Walbridge serving as president and general manager, the company that bore his name became one of the 50 largest construction companies in the United States. In 1925, he was named president of the Associated General Contractors of America. In 1934, Walbridge, a Republican, was named a member of the council to the Federal Housing Administration. Walbridge remained a leader of his company for some 39 years, in 2008, the company he helped create changed its name to simply Walbridge. Walbridge married Helen M. McCauley of Chicago on January 3,1903 and they had four children, Clare, George, Joseph H. and Jane
25.
Malcolm McBride
–
Malcolm Lee McBride was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University as a halfback and fullback, McBride was known for his skill as a left-footed kicker. One newspaper described his punts as follows, Malcolm McBride, who was a Yale fullback, was one of the stars of the game in 1899. He sent a long, low punt that was hard to handle. It usually struck the ground and bounded some distance before the backs could recover it, after graduating as part of Yales class of 1900, McBride returned as the schools head football coach in 1900. McBrides chief adviser as Yales coach was Walter Camp, and his assistants were Frank Hinkey, McBride coached the 1900 Yale football team to a perfect 12–0 record. The team base been acknowledged as the national champion of the 1900 college football season. Malcolm McBride at the College Football Data Warehouse
26.
1889 College Football All-America Team
–
The 1889 College Football All-America team was the first College Football All-America Team. The team was selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Weeks Sports, the team selected by Whitney in 1889 marked the origin of the All-America teams that have since appeared in every collegiate sport from mens ice hockey to womens gymnastics. All eleven members of the 1889 All-America team played for three teams—Harvard, Princeton or Yale, then known as the Big Three of college football. The first ever All-America team included the football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pudge Heffelfinger, Snake Ames, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Cumnock. Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yales All-American end, Stagg became a football coach at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932. Staggs teams won seven championships and seven Big Ten Conference championships. William Heffelfinger, Yales guard, Pudge Heffelfinger was a native of Minnesota who was considered the greatest lineman of his time, Heffelfinger was paid $500 in 1892 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association, making him the first professional football player. He was the football coach at the University of California, Lehigh University. He later published a booklet called Heffelfingers Football Facts and was one of the charter inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. Ames is credited with being the first player to execute a fake punt, Ames moved west to coach Purdue University from 1891 to 1892. Hector Cowan, Princetons tackle, Hec Cowan helped lead the 1889 Princeton team to a perfect 10–0 record, Pudge Heffelfinger later said of Cowan, He had the strongest shoulders and arms Ive ever been up against and his stubby legs drove like pistons when he carried the ball. Hector could carry a couple of tacklers on his back, yet he was plenty fast in the open and he later served as the coach at the University of Kansas from 1894 to 1896. Edgar Allan Poe, Princetons quarterback, Poe was named after his relative, after Princeton beat Harvard, 41–15, a Harvard man reportedly asked a Princeton alumnus whether Poe was related to the great Edgar Allan Poe. According to the story, the alumnus looked at him in astonishment and replied, Poe graduated Phi Beta Kappa and later served as the Attorney General of the State of Maryland from 1911 to 1915. Arthur Cumnock, Harvards Cumnock was known as a fierce tackler and has been ranked by one author as perhaps the greatest player in that schools long football tradition, Cumnock later went into the cotton mill business and was the treasurer of one of the largest corporations in New England. Roscoe Channing, Princetons halfback Channing later served with Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders in the Spanish American War, for many years, he was the President of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, a copper mining company in Flin Flon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Charles O. Gill, Yales Gill later coached at the University of California in 1894
27.
1890 College Football All-America Team
–
The 1890 College Football All-America team was the second College Football All-America Team. The team was selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Weeks Sports, all eleven members of the 1890 All-America team played for three teams—Harvard, Princeton or Yale, then known as the Big Three of college football. The strength of the 1890 team is demonstrated by the fact that a majority of the players selected were selected as All-Americans in multiple years and they are, Pudge Heffelfinger, John Corbett, Marshall Newell, Frank Hallowell, Jesse Riggs, Bum McClung, and Sheppard Homans. The team included men who went on to success in their careers. McClung went on to become the Treasurer of the United States under U. S. President William Howard Taft, harvards quarterback Dudley Dean enlisted in Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders and was decorated for his role in the Battle of San Juan Hill. The team also included players who met with tragic endings, Newell was killed on Christmas Eve 1897 when a railroad engine accidentally backed up over him. Football in 1890 was a sport, played before the introduction of helmets. Serious injuries and even deaths were common occurrences in the game, harvards All-American center, John Cranston, was the first player to wear equipment to protect his face during an American football game. In order to protect Cranstons weak nose, Harvard captain and 1889 All-American Arthur Cumnock invented a device that he called nose armor, the armor is made of fine rubber and protects both the nose and teeth. In 1952, Grantland Rice paid tribute to Princetons fullback Sheppard Homans as the embodiment of the rough, Rice wrote, Just as Ty Cobb represents the ball game of many years ago, this man represented the football that used to be. Corbett, Harvard Sheppard Homans, Jr. Princeton
28.
1900 College Football All-America Team
–
Camps 1900 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine. In its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans, using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 15 players as consensus All-American for the 1900 football season. Gordon Brown, a guard for Yale who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, dave Campbell, an end for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958. Chadwick, a halfback for Yale who later had a career as a teacher of English, history. Charles Dudley Daly, a quarterback for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Daly later served eight years as the head football coach for Army, compiling a record of 58–13–3. William Fincke, a quarterback for Yale who later became a pacifist minister and educator and founded the Manumit School on his farm in Pawling. Perry Hale, a fullback for Yale who later became the football coach at Ohio State University. T. Truxtun Hare, a guard for Penn who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, in 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934. Its selection for 1900 was Truxtun Hare, a player who selected as a first-team All-American four consecutive years, Sports Illustrated noted, Few early 20th Century players were as revered as Hare, who played every minute of every game. Bill Morley, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971 and he became a prominent cattle and sheep rancher in New Mexico. The All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East, in 1900, all 15 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, and 13 of 15 played in the Ivy League. The Yale Bulldogs had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans, the only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Walter Smith of Army and Walter E. Bachman of Lafayette College. No players from western schools received first-team or second-team All-American honors in 1900, two western players were selected by Camp for his third team, Page, a fullback for Minnesota, and Clyde Williams, a quarterback for Iowa. In addition to Camp and Whitney, other writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1900. The list below includes the All-America selections made by Charles Sargent for Leslies Weekly, only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, Sargent, and Orton. They were James Bloomer, Gordon Brown, Truxton Hare, GO = George W. Orton in The Philadelphia Inquirer CS = Charles Sargent in Leslies Weekly IN = The Inlander. Nine prominent coaches, from both the East and West, were asked by The Inlander to cast votes. The nine coaches were Dibble of Harvard, Woodruff of Penn, Pell of Princeton, Warner of Carlisle, Newton of Lafayette, King of Wisconsin, Robinson of Brown, Eckstorm of O. S. U. and Horne of Indiana
29.
1901 College Football All-America Team
–
Camps 1901 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine. In its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans, using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 18 players as consensus All-American for the 1901 football season. John J. Pershing during World War I, inspector general of the New York National Guard, and as a member of the Harbord Commission, Paul Bunker, a tackle for Army whose posthumously published account of his time as a Japanese prisoner of war became a best-seller. A portion of the U. S. flag flown at Corregidor was saved from burning by Bunker and kept hidden as a patch inside his shirt, Dave Campbell, an end for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958. Charles Dudley Daly, a quarterback for Harvard who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, in 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934. Its selection for 1901 was Daly of Army, a player who put on a one-man show against Navy, bill Morley, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He became a prominent cattle and sheep rancher in New Mexico, Neil Snow, an end for Michigan who scored five touchdowns in the 1902 Rose Bowl and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960. Bill Warner, a guard for Cornell who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971, Warner later served as the head football coach at Cornell, North Carolina, Colgate, St. Louis, and Oregon. Harold Weekes, a halfback for Columbia who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954, the All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1901,17 of the 18 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, the undefeated Harvard Crimson team had eight players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only four consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were Neil Snow of Michigan, Paul Bunker and Charles Dudley Daly of Army, and Walter Bachman of Lafayette. During the 1901 season, Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute team at Michigan compiled an 11–0 record, four Michigan players were chosen for All-Western teams, end Neil Snow, halfback Willie Heston, quarterback Boss Weeks, and tackle Bruce Shorts. Another strong team from the West was Wisconsin which compiled a 9–0 record, yet, only one player from a western school, Snow of Michigan, was recognized as a first-team All-American in 1901. Caspar Whitney named two Wisconsin players, tackle Art Curtis and halfback Al Norsky Larson, as second-team All-Americans. In addition to Camp and Whitney, other writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1901. The list below includes the All-America selections made by the New York Post, only four players were unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, the New York Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. They were Dave Campbell, Oliver Cutts, Charles Dudley Daly, chadwick, Yale Al Norsky Larson, Wisconsin Henry Purcell, Cornell A. W. N. P. Stauffer Bold = Consensus All-Americans 1901 All-Southern college football team 1901 All-Western college football team
30.
1902 College Football All-America Team
–
Camps 1902 All-America Team was published in Colliers Weekly, and Whitneys selections were published in Outing magazine. In its official listing of Consensus All-America Selections, the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as consensus All-Americans, using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 14 players as consensus All-American for the 1902 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below, in 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934. Its selection for 1902 was Paul Bunker of Army, a player who converted from tackle to halfback, the All-America selections by Camp and Whitney were dominated by players from the East and the Ivy League in particular. In 1902, all 14 consensus All-Americans came from Eastern universities, the Yale Bulldogs had seven players who were designated as consensus All-Americans. The only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Paul Bunker and center Robert Boyers, during the 1902 season, Fielding H. Yosts Point-a-Minute team at Michigan compiled an 11–0 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12. Seven Michigan players were chosen for All-Western teams, including Willie Heston, Joe Maddock, Boss Weeks, Everett Sweeley, Paul J. Jones, Curtis Redden, yet, not one player from a western school was recognized as a first-team All-American by Camp or Whitney. In addition to Camp and Whitney, other writers and publications selected All-America teams in 1902. The list below includes the All-America selections made by the The Newark Advocate and The Post-Standard of Syracuse, only one player, guard Edward Glass of Yale, was unanimously selected by Camp, Whitney, the The Newark Advocate, and The Post-Standard. Chadwick, Yale Thomas A. Barry, Brown Willie Heston, Michigan Harold Weekes, Columbia Harold Metcalf, Yale Walter L. Foulke, Princeton Thomas Graydon, Harvard Morgan H
31.
1903 College Football All-America Team
–
The 1903 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations and individuals that chose the teams included Colliers Weekly selected by Walter Camp, Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine, Charles Chadwick and Fielding H. Yost. The only three consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Fred Schacht of Minnesota, quarterback James Johnson of Carlisle, hooper, who was a freshman in 1903, died three months after the football season ended, following an attack of appendicitis. In 2008, Sports Illustrated sought to answer the question, Who would have won the Heisman from 1900-1934 and its selection for 1903 was Willie Heston of Michigan described as the nations finest back
32.
1906 College Football All-America Team
–
The 1906 college football season was a year of change. Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football, the most lasting change introduced in 1906 was the forward pass. Several of the selected as All-Americans in 1906 gained attention for their use of the new tactic. The Eastern powers dominated the game of football in 1906. Both the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs finished with undefeated seasons, out of 15 players recognized in the NCAA Record Book as consensus All-Americans for the 1906 season,13 played for Ivy League teams, and 7 played for Princeton or Yale. Only two players from schools were first-team selections—quarterback Walter Eckersall from the University of Chicago and center William Thomas Dunn from Penn State. The only unanimous first-team All-American in 1906 was Yale end Bob Forbes and it would be possible to pick at least three teams which would make things mighty interesting for each other. The East has completely eclipsed the West this season, and that somewhat simplifies matters. The Western teams failed to grasp the possibilities of the new rules and players of that section who were brilliant last year did not get an opportunity, to shine this year in the new game. Walter Eckersall, of Chicago, appears to be the only Westerner who has a right to be in the All-American team this fall
