1904 college football rankings

1904 college football rankings
Season	1904
Bowl season	1904–05 bowl games
End of season champions	Yale
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The 1904 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing .

Caspar Whitney

Writing for Outing , alongside his All-America Eleven for 1904, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-two teams in the country at the conclusion of the season. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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. ^[4]

Rank	Team [1]	Record
1	Yale	10–1
2	Penn	12–0
3	West Point	7–2
4	Princeton	8–2
5	Harvard	7–2–1
6	Dartmouth	7–0–1
7	Minnesota	13–0
8	Michigan	10–0
9	Amherst	9–1
10	Chicago	10–1–1
11	Annapolis	7–2–1
12	Lafayette	8–2
13	Wisconsin	5–3
14	Carlisle	10–2
15	Haskell	8–1
16	Nebraska	7–3
17	Northwestern	8–2
18	Columbia	7–3
19	Maine	3–4
20	Brown	6–5
21	Illinois	9–2–1
22	Cornell	7–3

References

1. Whitney, Caspar (January 1905). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The Sportsman's View-Point: 1904 Ranking Football Teams". Outing . Vol. XLV, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 493–499. Retrieved January 26, 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 particular interest in the study is its object lesson on comparative football development throughout the country. No college is eligible for consideration here whose disregard of wholesome sport has been patent and persistent, or whose team has played an ineligible man.
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. "Yale's was the best football eleven". Harrisburg Star-Independent. December 31, 1904. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
4. "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 (1904-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.