1904 college football season

1904 college football season
Penn–Harvard game.
Total # of teams	81[1]
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Michigan Wolverines Minnesota Golden Gophers Penn Quakers
College football seasons « 1903 1905 »

The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions.^[2]

1904 was a big year for the South. It was the first year for: Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, Mike Donahue at Auburn, and John Heisman at Georgia Tech.

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1904 Big 9 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 0     13 – 0 – 0 Michigan + 2 – 0 – 0     10 – 0 – 0 Chicago 5 – 1 – 1     10 – 1 – 1 Illinois 3 – 1 – 1     9 – 2 – 1 Northwestern 1 – 2 – 0     8 – 2 – 0 Purdue 1 – 2 – 0     9 – 3 – 0 Iowa 0 – 3 – 0     7 – 4 – 0 Wisconsin 0 – 3 – 0     5 – 3 – 0 Indiana 0 – 3 – 0     6 – 4 – 0 + – Conference co-champions	1904 CFA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado 3 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 1 $ – Conference champion	1904 college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Utah   –       7 – 1 – 0 Stanford   –       7 – 2 – 1 USC   –       6 – 1 – 0 California   –       6 – 1 – 1 Oregon Agricultural   –       4 – 2 – 0 Washington   –       4 – 2 – 1 Oregon   –       5 – 3 – 0 Montana   –       3 – 2 – 0 Washington Agricultural   –       2 – 2 – 0
1904 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Vanderbilt + 5 – 0 – 0     9 – 0 – 0 Auburn + 5 – 0 – 0     5 – 0 – 0 Kentucky State 2 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 Texas 1 – 0 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Sewanee 4 – 1 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 Alabama 5 – 3 – 0     7 – 3 – 0 Georgia Tech 2 – 1 – 1     8 – 1 – 1 Tulane 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 0 Clemson 3 – 3 – 1     3 – 3 – 1 Mississippi 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 LSU 1 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 Tennessee 1 – 4 – 1     3 – 5 – 1 Nashville 1 – 5 – 1     1 – 7 – 1 Cumberland 0 – 1 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 Texas A&M 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 2 – 0 Mississippi A&M 0 – 4 – 0     2 – 5 – 0 Georgia 0 – 4 – 0     1 – 5 – 0 Central 0 – 4 – 0     1 – 7 – 0 Davidson 0 – 0 – 0     6 – 1 – 1 + – Conference co-champions

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Albion	5–0–0
Ohio Athletic Conference	Case School of Applied Science	4–0–0

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Vince Stevenson	5'10"	148	Jr.		Penn
QB	Foster Rockwell			Sr.	Vermont	Yale
HB	Daniel Hurley			Jr.	Charlestown, Massachusetts	Harvard
HB	Willie Heston	5'8"	190	Sr.	Grant's Pass, Oregon	Michigan
FB	Walter Eckersall	5'7"	141	So.	Chicago, Illinois	Chicago
FB	Andy Smith			Sr.	Du Bois, Pennsylvania	Penn
FB	Henry Torney			Jr.		Army
E	Tom Shevlin	5'10"	195	Jr.	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Yale
T	James Hogan	5'10"	210	Sr.		Yale
G	Frank Piekarski			Sr.	Nanticoke, Pennsylvania	Penn
G	Joseph Gilman				Exeter, New Hampshire	Dartmouth
C	Arthur Tipton			Sr.	Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory	Army
G	Ralph Kinney			Sr.		Yale
T	James Cooney			So.		Princeton
E	Fred Speik			Sr.	Stockton, California	Chicago

Statistical leaders

• Team scoring most points: Minnesota, 725 to 12.
• Rushing leader: Willie Heston, Michigan, 686
• Rushing avg. leader: Willie Heston, 12.7
• Rushing touchdowns leader: Willie Heston, 21

References

1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1904.htm
2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.