1902 college football rankings

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The 1902 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing and a top-sixteen rating in The Sun .

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Caspar Whitney

Writing for Outing , alongside his All-America Eleven for 1902, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-eight teams in the country at the conclusion of the season. [1] [2]

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. [3]

RankTeam [1] Record
1 Yale 11–0–1
2 Harvard 11–1
3 West Point 6–1–1

The Sun

In December 1902, New York City newspaper The Sun published a ranking of football teams. [4]

RankTeam [4] Record
1 Yale 11–0–1
2 Princeton 8–1
3 Harvard 11–1
4 Army 6–1–1
5 Penn 9–4
6 Carlisle 8–3
7 Cornell 8–3
8 Bucknell
9 Amherst
10 Dartmouth 6–2–1
11 Navy 2–7–1
12 Lafayette 8–3
13 Brown 5–4–1
14 Syracuse 6–2–1
15 Columbia 6–4–1
16 Lehigh 7–3–1

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

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The 1901 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing.

References

  1. 1 2 Whitney, Caspar (January 1903). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The Sportsman's View-Point: Ranking of the Elevens for 1902". Outing . Vol. XLI, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 499–510. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
  2. 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.
  3. "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 (1902-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.
  4. 1 2 "Ranking of Football Teams [1902] — Yale, Princeton, Harvard, West Point, the Order — Difficult to Place Other Elevens". The Sun . December 4, 1902. Retrieved January 30, 2024. The football season being over, it is in order to rank the teams, an unsatisfactory task at the best [...] Few persons would rank the first dozen or so of the Eastern teams just alike, but there is one point on which there will be no dissenting voice and that is that Yale ranks first.