1907 All-America college football team

The 1907 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 1907

Ends

Albert Exendine of Carlisle

• Bill Dague , Navy (WC-1; NYT; CR)
• Clarence Alcott , Yale (WC-1; CW-2; NYH; NYP; CF)
• Albert Exendine , Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1; NYW; CR)
• Caspar Wister , Princeton (WC-3; CW-1; NYH; NYT; NYW; NYP, AFR)
• Hunter Scarlett, Penn (WC-2; FY-1)
• James Fox Macdonald, Harvard (WC-3; CW-2)
• Bob Blake, Vanderbilt (FY-1, AFR)
• Charles H. Watson, Cornell (CF)

Tackles

• Dexter Draper , Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; CR)
• Lucius Horatio Biglow , Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYT; NYW; NYP; FY-1; CF; CR [g], AFR)
• Bill Horr, Syracuse (WC-2; NYH)
• Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; NYP; CF)
• Henry J. Weeks, Army (WC-3; CW-2)
• Benjamin Lang, Dartmouth (WC-3)
• Walter Rheinschild, Michigan (FY-1)
• Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW)
• Edwin J. Donnelly, Trinity (CR)

Guards

• Gus Ziegler , Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; CF; CR, AFR)
• William Erwin , Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYT; FY-1; CF)
• Edward Rich, Dartmouth (WC-2)
• Elmer Thompson, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; NYH; NYW; NYP; FY-1, AFR)
• Francis Burr, Harvard (CW-2; NYP, AFR [as T])
• William Goebel, Yale (WC-3)
• Walter Kreider, Swarthmore (WC-3)

Centers

Germany Schulz is credited with inventing the spiral snap and the linebacker position.

• Germany Schulz , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-2; FY-1; CF)
• Patrick Grant , Harvard (WC-2; CW-1; NYW; NYP; CR)
• W. J. Phillips, Princeton (WC-3; NYH)
• Frank Slingluff, Jr., Navy (NYT)
• Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (AFR)

Quarterbacks

• Tad Jones , Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; NYT; NYW; NYP; CF)
• Edward Dillon, Princeton (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1; CR)
• Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)
• Frank Mount Pleasant, Carlisle (AFR)

Halfbacks

• Jack Wendell , Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYH; FY-1; CF; CR)
• Edwin Harlan , Princeton (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYP; FY-1, AFR)
• John L. Marks, Dartmouth (WC-2)
• A. H. Douglas, ^[1] Navy (WC-3 [fb]; CW-2; NYT; CF)
• Bob Folwell, Penn (NYP; CR)
• George Capron, Minnesota (WC-3)
• Edward L. McCallie, Cornell (NYW)
• John Glaze, Dartmouth (AFR)

Ted Coy of Yale

Fullbacks

• Ted Coy , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1 [hb]; NYH; NYP; FY-1; CF, CR, AFR)
• Jim McCormick , Princeton (WC-1; CW-2; NYT; NYW)
• Peter Hauser , Carlisle (WC-3 [hb]; CW-1; NYH [hb])
• Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1907

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

Other selectors

• NYH = New York Herald ^[5]
• NYT = New York Tribune ^[5]
• NYW = New York World (Robert Edgren) ^[5]
• NYP = New York Press ^[5]
• FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan, for the North American Press Syndicate. ^[6]
• CF = Carl Flanders ^[5]
• CR = Constant Reader ^[5]
• AFR = Abilene Semi Weekly Farm Reporter. ^[7] "selected not according to their weight, but their conception of the new game"

Bold = Consensus All-American ^[8]

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

See also

• 1907 All-Southern college football team
• 1907 All-Western college football team

References

1. Referred to as "Tootsie" Douglass by the Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 6, 1907, article titled "All-Star Place for Douglass: Tennessee Boy Picked as One of Country's Greatest Backs"
2. "Camp Selects His All American Team". Trenton Evening Times. December 27, 1903.
3. "Whitney Picks Out the Champ Eleven: All-American Eleven Taken from the East". La Crosse Tribune. December 26, 1907.
4. "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
5. "All-America Elevens Picked: Difference of Opinion by Experts; Biglow of Yale General Choice for Captain". The Hartford Courant. December 9, 1907. p. 14. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
6. "COACH YOST AND HIS TEAM". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 2, 1907. ("Of all the football men in America, none has attained greater prominence than Fielding H. Yost, who has coached the University of Michigan for six years. Yost's football vision is broad. His football judgment is superior. His football pre-eminence is generally accepted. It is thus a matter of considerable football moment when Mr. Yost breaks his previous precedence and names an all-American football team. This he has done for the North American Press Syndicate.")
7. "Outlook Is Blue". Abilene Semi Weekly Farm Reporter. November 23, 1907. p. 2. Retrieved March 14, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
8. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.