1904 college football season

1904 college football season
Penn–Harvard game.
Champion(s)Michigan
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
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The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions.[1]

1904 was a big year for the South. It was the first year for: Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, Mike Donahue at Auburn, and John Heisman at Georgia Tech.

Conference and program changes

Membership changes

School 1903 Conference 1904 Conference
Southwest Texas State Normal football Program Established Independent

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1904 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colorado Mines $ 3 – 0 – 1 3 – 0 – 1
Colorado 3 – 1 – 0 6 – 2 – 1
Denver 2 – 2 – 0 2 – 5 – 0
Colorado College 1 – 2 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
Colorado Agricultural 0 – 4 – 0 0 – 4 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Vanderbilt + 5 – 0 – 0 9 – 0 – 0
Auburn + 5 – 0 – 0 5 – 0 – 0
Sewanee 4 – 1 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Georgia Tech 3 – 1 – 1 8 – 1 – 1
Alabama 5 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Clemson 3 – 2 – 1 3 – 3 – 1
Tulane 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 2 – 0
Kentucky State 0 – 0 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Ole Miss 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 3 – 0
LSU 1 – 2 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
Tennessee 1 – 4 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
Cumberland (TN) 0 – 1 – 0 2 – 1 – 0
Nashville 0 – 4 – 1 2 – 5 – 1
Georgia 0 – 4 – 0 1 – 5 – 0
Mississippi A&M 0 – 4 – 0 2 – 4 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
1904 Southwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Texas 5 – 0 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
Texas A&M 3 – 1 – 0 4 – 2 – 0
Oklahoma 1 – 1 – 0 4 – 3 – 1
Arkansas 0 – 1 – 0 4 – 3 – 0
Baylor 2 – 5 – 1 2 – 5 – 1
TCU 1 – 3 – 1 1 – 4 – 1
Oklahoma A&M 0 – 1 – 0 0 – 4 – 1
Trinity 0 – 1 – 0 0 – 1 – 0
1904 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 0 13 – 0 – 0
Michigan + 2 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
Chicago 5 – 1 – 1 10 – 1 – 1
Illinois 3 – 1 – 1 9 – 2 – 1
Northwestern 1 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Purdue 1 – 2 – 0 9 – 3 – 0
Iowa 0 – 3 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
Wisconsin 0 – 3 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Indiana 0 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents

1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   10 – 1 – 0
Amherst   –   9 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 1
Dickinson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   3 – 3 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   4 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 5 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 4 – 2
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 2
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 9 – 1
Lehigh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   0 – 10 – 0
1904 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Louis   –   10 – 0 – 0
Bethany (KS)   –   7 – 0 – 0
Northern Illinois State   –   5 – 0 – 0
Missouri State Normal   –   2 – 0 – 0
Haskell   –   8 – 1 – 0
Michigan Agricultural   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cincinnati   –   7 – 1 – 0
Butler   –   6 – 1 – 0
Doane   –   5 – 1 – 0
Kansas   –   8 – 1 – 1
DePauw   –   8 – 2 – 0
Iowa State   –   7 – 2 – 0
Ohio Northern   –   7 – 2 – 1
Michigan State Normal   –   6 – 2 – 0
Wittenberg   –   6 – 2 – 0
Marquette   –   5 – 2 – 0
Nebraska   –   7 – 3 – 0
Detroit College   –   4 – 2 – 0
South Dakota State   –   4 – 2 – 1
Notre Dame   –   5 – 3 – 0
Iowa State Normal   –   5 – 3 – 1
Western Illinois   –   6 – 4 – 0
Heidelberg   –   6 – 4 – 1
Drake   –   5 – 4 – 0
Carthage   –   0 – 0 – 2
North Dakota Agricultural   –   3 – 3 – 0
Wabash   –   4 – 4 – 0
Fairmount   –   4 – 5 – 0
Lake Forest   –   3 – 5 – 1
Ohio Medical   –   2 – 4 – 2
Washington University   –   4 – 7 – 0
Ohio   –   2 – 4 – 1
Missouri   –   3 – 6 – 0
Mount Union   –   2 – 6 – 0
Miami (OH)   –   1 – 5 – 0
Kansas State   –   1 – 6 – 0
American Medical   –   0 – 3 – 0
1904 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Georgetown   –   7 – 1 – 0
Southwest Texas State   –   5 – 1 – 0
Southwestern Louisiana Industrial   –   2 – 0 – 1
Davidson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   7 – 2 – 1
North Carolina   –   5 – 2 – 2
Virginia   –   6 – 3 – 0
North Carolina A&M   –   3 – 1 – 2
West Virginia   –   6 – 3 – 0
VPI   –   5 – 3 – 0
George Washington   –   4 – 2 – 2
Arkansas   –   4 – 3 – 0
Oklahoma   –   4 – 3 – 1
South Carolina   –   4 – 3 – 1
Stetson   –   2 – 2 – 0
Central Oklahoma   –   2 – 3 – 0
VMI   –   3 – 5 – 0
Kentucky University   –   3 – 4 – 0
Grant   –   2 – 3 – 0
Florida State College   –   2 – 3 – 0
Maryland   –   2 – 4 – 2
East Florida Seminary   –   1 – 2 – 0
Goldey College   –   1 – 2 – 0
Baylor   –   2 – 5 – 1
Louisiana Industrial   –   1 – 4 – 0
TCU   –   1 – 4 – 1
Delaware   –   1 – 5 – 1
Kendall   –   0 – 2 – 1
Rollins   –   0 – 1 – 0
Tusculum   –   0 – 2 – 0
Florida at Lake City   –   0 – 5 – 0
Oklahoma A&M   –   0 – 6 – 0
Tennessee Docs   –   0 – 7 – 0
1904 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Utah   –   7 – 1 – 0
Stanford   –   7 – 2 – 1
California   –   6 – 1 – 1
USC   –   6 – 1 – 0
Oregon   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tempe Normal   –   4 – 0 – 0
Wyoming   –   4 – 1 – 1
Washington   –   4 – 2 – 1
Arizona   –   3 – 1 – 2
Oregon Agricultural   –   4 – 2 – 0
Montana   –   3 – 2 – 0
Nevada State   –   3 – 3 – 0
Washington Agricultural   –   2 – 2 – 0
New Mexico A&M   –   1 – 2 – 1
Utah Agricultural   –   4 – 8 – 0

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion 5–0
Ohio Athletic Conference Case 4–0

Minor conference standings

1904 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Case $ 4 – 1 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Ohio State 2 – 1 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Oberlin 2 – 2 – 1 4 – 2 – 1
Western Reserve 1 – 1 – 1 4 – 2 – 3
Ohio Wesleyan 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Kenyon 0 – 4 – 0 3 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1904 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Vince Stevenson 5'10" 148 Jr. Penn
QB Foster Rockwell Sr. Vermont Yale
HB Daniel Hurley Jr. Charlestown, Massachusetts Harvard
HB Willie Heston 5'8" 190 Sr. Grant's Pass, Oregon Michigan
FB Walter Eckersall 5'7" 141 So. Chicago, Illinois Chicago
FB Andy Smith Sr. Du Bois, Pennsylvania Penn
FB Henry Torney Jr. Army
E Tom Shevlin 5'10" 195 Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
T James Hogan 5'10" 210 Sr. Yale
G Frank Piekarski Sr. Nanticoke, Pennsylvania Penn
G Joseph Gilman Exeter, New Hampshire Dartmouth
C Arthur Tipton Sr. Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory Army
G Ralph Kinney Sr. Yale
T James Cooney So. Princeton
E Fred Speik Sr. Stockton, California Chicago

Statistical leaders

  • Team scoring most points: Minnesota, 725 to 12.
  • Rushing leader: Willie Heston, Michigan, 686
  • Rushing avg. leader: Willie Heston, 12.7
  • Rushing touchdowns leader: Willie Heston, 21

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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