Misplaced Pages

1906 college football rankings

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

1906 college football rankings
Season1906
Bowl season1906–07 bowl games
End of season championsYale
college football rankings 1907 →

The 1906 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for The Outing Magazine.

Caspar Whitney

Writing for The Outing Magazine, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1906, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twelve teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.

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.

Rank Team Record
1 Yale 9–0–1
2 Princeton 9–0–1
3 Harvard 10–1
4 Navy 8–2–2
5 Carlisle 9–3
6 Penn 7–2–3
7 Cornell 8–1–2
8 Brown 6–3
9 Army 3–5–1
10 Swarthmore 7–2
11 Minnesota 4–1
12 Chicago 8–2–1

See also

References

  1. ^ Whitney, Caspar (January 1907). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The View-Point: Ranking Football 1906 Teams". The Outing Magazine. Vol. XLIX, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 534–537. Retrieved January 25, 2024. This ranking is not based only on comparative scores, but on style of play, conditions under which games were contested, relative importance of games on the schedule—especially with regard to each teams's "big" game, for which it was particularly trained—as well as the season's all-round record of the elevens under discussion. My intent in the study is its object lesson on comparative football development throughout the country.
  2. ^ "National Champion Major Selections (1896 to Present)". 2022 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2022. p. 114. Retrieved January 4, 2023. Caspar Whitney (1905-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.
  3. Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967). Laguerre, André (ed.). "This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open". Sports Illustrated . Vol. 27, no. 11. Chicago. pp. 28–34. Retrieved 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.
NCAA college football rankings
Pre-divisional
NCAA University Division
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I-A/FBS
NCAA Division I-AA/FCS
Small college
NCAA Division II
NCAA Division III
Polls
Categories:
1906 college football rankings Add topic