1904 All-America college football team

The 1904 All-America college football team is composed of various organizations that chose All-America college football teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.

All-Americans of 1904

Yale's Tom Shevlin was a four-time All-American

Ends

• Tom Shevlin , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA; PI)
• Frederick A. Speik , Chicago (CW-1)
• Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2; NYH; NYET)
• Garfield Weede, Penn (WC-2; NYS-1; PNA-1)
• Chester T. Neal, Yale (NYS-2; NYT; PI)
• Thomas W. Hammond, Army (NYS-2; PR)
• Alexander Garfield Gillespie, Army (WC-2)
• Claude Rothgeb, Illinois (WC-3; FL)
• Russ, Brown (CW-2)
• James Bush, Wisconsin (FL)

Tackles

• James Hogan , Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL)
• James Cooney , Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PI)
• Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2; FL)
• James Bloomer, Yale (CW-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1; FL [sub])
• Tom Thorp, Columbia (WC-2; CW-2; NYS-2)
• Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz, Penn (WC-3)
• Thomas B. Doe, Army (WC-3)

Guards

• Frank Piekarski , Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
• Joseph Gilman , Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1)
• Ralph Kinney , Yale (WC-1; CW-2 NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
• Roswell Tripp, Yale (WC-2; CW-2 NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PI)
• Short, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2; PR)
• Walton W. Thorp, Minnesota (WC-3; FL)
• Charles A. Fairweather, Illinois (FL)

With halfback Willie Heston in the backfield, the Michigan Wolverines compiled a 43–0–1 record between 1901 and 1904.

Centers

• Arthur Tipton , Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
• Clint Roraback, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
• Robert Torrey, Penn (WC-3; CW-2)
• John M. Haselwood, Illinois (FL)

Quarterbacks

• Vince Stevenson , Penn (WC-1; NYS-2; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
• Foster Rockwell , Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET)
• Sigmund Harris, Minnesota (WC-3)
• Dillwyn Parrish Starr, Harvard (CW-2)

Halfbacks

• Daniel Hurley , Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
• Willie Heston , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYET; FL)
• Lydig Hoyt, Yale (WC-3; CW-2 [fb]; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
• Jack Owsley, Yale (NYS-2)
• Marshall Reynolds, Penn (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
• W. E. Metzenthin, Columbia (NYH)
• Jack Hubbard, Amherst (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2)
• James Vaughn, Dartmouth (WC-3)
• W. C. Leavenworth, Yale (PI)
• Frederick A. Prince, Army (CW-2)
• Walter L. Foulke, Princeton (FL [sub])

Fullbacks

• Walter Eckersall , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [e]; CW-1; FL [qb])
• Andy Smith , Penn (WC-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL [hb])
• Henry Torney , Army (CW-1 [hb]; NYT; NYET)
• Philip O. Mills, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; PR) ^[1]
• John R. Bender, Nebraska (WC-3)
• Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (FL)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1904

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp ^{[2] [3]}
• CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine ^[4]

Other selectors

• NYS = New York Sun ^[5]
• NYT = New York Tribune ^{[5] [6]}
• NYH = New York Herald ^{[5] [6]}
• PR = New York Press ^[5]
• NYET = New York Evening Telegram ^[7]
• PNA = Philadelphia North American ^[8]
• PI = Philadelphia Inquirer ^[8]
• FL = Fred Lowenthal, coach of the University of Illinois ^[6]

Bold = Consensus All-American ^[9]

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection

See also

• 1904 All-Southern college football team
• 1904 All-Western college football team

References

1. "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-American Selections - Harvard". Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
2. "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
3. "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
4. Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
5. "Western Stars Are Not Named: No Eastern Paper Gives Westerner Place on All-Americans". Atlanta Constitution. December 5, 1904.
6. "Some All-American Football Elevens". The Pittsburgh Press . November 29, 1904.
7. "In the Sporting World". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. December 3, 1904.
8. "Football Critics Picking All-American Aggregations". Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette. December 15, 1904.
9. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.