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1904 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1904

1904 All-America college football team
Summary

Official list of the best college football players of 1904

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)
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)
  • 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
  • CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine

Other selectors

  • NYS = New York Sun
  • NYT = New York Tribune
  • NYH = New York Herald
  • PR = New York Press
  • NYET = New York Evening Telegram
  • PNA = Philadelphia North American
  • PI = Philadelphia Inquirer
  • FL = Fred Lowenthal, coach of the University of Illinois

Bold = Consensus All-American

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

References

References

  1. "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-American Selections - Harvard".
  2. (1904-12-28). "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL).
  3. (1904-11-24). "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times.
  4. Caspar Whitney. (Jan 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point". Outing.
  5. (1904-12-05). "Western Stars Are Not Named: No Eastern Paper Gives Westerner Place on All-Americans". Atlanta Constitution.
  6. (1904-12-03). "In the Sporting World". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.
  7. (1904-12-15). "Football Critics Picking All-American Aggregations". Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette.
  8. (1904-11-29). "Some All-American Football Elevens". [[The Pittsburgh Press]].
  9. (2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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