The 1898 season
227 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Harvard and Princeton claim the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
Consensus All-Americans
- ELew Palmer, Princeton
- EJohn Hallowell, Harvard
- OTArt Hillebrand, Princeton
- OTBurr Chamberlain, Yale
- OGTruxtun Hare, Penn
- OGGordon Brown, Yale
- CPete Overfield, Penn
- CWilliam Cunningham, Michigan
- QBCharles Dudley Daly, Harvard
- RBBenjamin Dibblee, Harvard
- RBJohn H. Outland, Penn
- RBMalcolm McBride, Yale
- FBClarence Herschberger, Chicago
- FBCharles Romeyn, Army
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1898 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1898 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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ORANGE AND BLACK WIN OUT Princeton Tigers Defeat Cons Of Old Ely Six to Nothing. TOUCHDOWN ON A MISERABLE TUMBLE Right End roc Sets the Immense Crowd Frantic by His Great Dash Of N~incty-Fivc Yards to the Good. PRINCETON. N. j.. Nov. 12.-The Prince ton Tigers defeated the Sons OF Old Ell on P-orr’v feld his afternoon by the score Of 6 to 0. While 1t was one OF the most bittoi,y contested games ever witnessed on a foot ball field, 1t was at the same line one of the most unsatisfactory. not alone to che Yale team and their supporters. but also to the wearers Of the orange and black and those who cheered them on to victory. The solitary touchdown was made on a miserable tumble by Right Halfback Benjamin when the ball was within fifteen yards Of Princeton’s goal. The ball had been car ried down the field by the Yale team by steady plunges into the Princeton line, varied by an occasional end run, until 1t lay between Princeton’s twenty and twenty-five yard line. The teams lined UP and Desaulles signaled for Benjamin to go through left tackle, a position in Princeton’s line which was awfully weak. The ball was passed and Benjamin dived into the mass OF human flesh. a second later the ball was seen to roll clear Of the bunch Of players and advance a rev feet toward Princeton’s goal line. Quick as q flash little Poe, the Tigers right end, had gathered UP the pigskin and was sprint ing down the field with Chamberlin, Still man anu IteuJduulu III “ Their he ran the greater was his lead, until, in less time than 1t takes to write it, he had planted the ball s~quarely between the posts of the much-coveted goal OF Yale. Crnuks Scream for Poe and Princeton. When Poe started or his ninety-fve-yard run up the field the scene which followed beggars description. The entire stands which surround the field were one surging, yelling --- z-- t. ~ tratayf nlh “nn and women threw dignity aside for the time being and Joined with | the younger, but none the less enthusiastic, | foot ball cranks in their cheers for Poe | and Princeton. 1t was several minutes be- | fore the game could proceed because OF the | jubilant Tiger supporters crowding onto the field. Later in the anne when the excite | ment ran high spectators who had seats IN | tie srandstand left their places and surged on the side lines, the management making | no effort to clear the field so as to enable | the working newspaper men to witness Sue ceeding plays. . Today’s game was almost a repetition OF | the game at Cambridge on last Saturday between the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. In the latter game the wearers Of the red and blue gained almost three \ times as much distance on line bucking as did their opponents, while Harvard scored on a tumble. The same can he said Of 20 days contest. Yale would carry the ball down the field toward the Tigers goal, only to lose it on an exasperating tumble. The game was not what could be called brilliant. scientific foot ball. AT times both teams played a mastery game, 3rt at other times many Of the players seemed to have forgotten the first rudiments OF the game and some Of their plays would have Put to shame the foot ball team OF a preparatory school. Yale’s Fierce Play. Before Benjamin’s disastrous tumble, Yale’s play had been fierce. After the touch down the men grew more desperate. IN every man there was that bulldog deter mination and grit that have won many a hard fought game for the wearers OF the dark blue. Time and again they would rush ths ball down the ield toward the Tigers goal, only to lose it on a tumble. On one occasion they carried the ball, by plunges into the line, seventy-fve yards, finally losing it on a tumble within twenty yards Of the Princeton goal. Princeton was content to play on the def~ensive until within about fifteen Minutes before the game was called and 1t looked as though they had been instructed in this point by their coaches. Their entire effor at line-bucking during the frs: half and for twenty minutes of the second half net ted them all told about fifty yards, while their opponents had carried the ball foul times this distance. There was not, however, that variety Of attack and good runs behind beautiful in reference which are appreciated so much by the unadulerated foot ball crank. Yale’i play in the main was directed against Princeton’s left tackle. the one weak spo in the Tigers line. The reports that had been sent out from New Haven to the effect that the Yale team was in G badly crippled condition had blu little effect on the betting on today’s game Before the game there were several bet’ made at even money, but a majority OF thu money was placed at 4 to S in favor Of Yale Stars of h Teams. For the Princeton team the bright particu lar stars were Palmer. Poe, Edwards, Ayre’ and Hillcbrand, while Durston, Townsend Brown, Ely and Coy did the best work TO Yale. When the teams lined up the attendant, was about $4,000 with the adherents o Princeton naturally in the majority. Tn Princeton shouters were banked in q soil, mass In the east stand opposite the Yal contingent and they kept up an untirinI shout for three hours, varied only occasion ally by O college song. Visitors from Ne, York, Philadelphia, New Haven and els where were homeward bound soon afte nightfall. I. The teams lined up as follows: Princeton. Position. Yal = Palmer. ........... left end ......”..-.:Ed Crowdish-M Mills left guard Brow . Booth. center .............Cutte