The 1902 season

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The 1902 Yale teamPhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Scoreboards

Week 1Sep 13
Week 2Sep 17–⁠20
Week 3Sep 24–⁠29
Week 4Oct 1–⁠6
Week 5Oct 8–⁠13
Week 6Oct 14–⁠18
Week 7Oct 21–⁠27
Week 8Oct 28–Nov 3
Week 9Nov 4–⁠10
Week 10Nov 11–⁠17
Week 11Nov 19–⁠24
Week 12Nov 27–⁠29

Conference champions

Colorado Football Conference: Colorado
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Clemson and LSU (shared)
Western Conference: Michigan

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

14 playersAll 4 selectors’ teams

EThomas Shevlin, Yale
EEdward Bowditch, Harvard
OTRalph Kinney, Yale
OTJames Hogan, Yale
OTPaul Bunker, Army
OGEdgar Glass, Yale
OGJohn DeWitt, Princeton
OGBill Warner, Cornell
CHenry Holt, Yale
CRobert Boyers, Army
QBFoster Rockwell, Yale
RBGeorge B. Chadwick, Yale
RBThomas A. Barry, Brown
FBThomas Graydon, Harvard

Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1902 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1902 All-America teams page.

From the newspapers

The Waterbury Democrat's story: ON THE GRIDIRON — Nov 22, 1902Yale 23, Harvard 01902 Yale · 1902 HarvardWaterbury Democrat, November 22, 1902, page 7
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ON THE GRIDIRON The record of the Yale-Harvard games in the past shows IF victories to 4 for Harvard as follows: 1S75-Haryard 4 goals, 2 touch downs; Yale 0. 1876 Yale l goal; Harvard 3 touch downs. 1S77-No game. 1S7S-Yale 1 goal Harvard O.. 1879 Yale ? safeties; Harvard 4 safeties. 1SSO-Yale 1 goal, 1 touchdown: Harvard ? safeties. 1SS1-Yale 0; Harvard 4 safeties. 1SS2-Yale l goal, 3 touchdoWns; Harvard ? safeties. 1SS3-Yale 23; Harvard 2 1SS4-Yale 52; Harvard o. 1SS5-No Game. 1SS6-Yale %; Harvard 4. 1SS7-Yale IT; Harvard 8. 18SS-No game. 1SS9-Yale 6; Harvard o. 1S90- Harvard 12; Yale 6. 1S91-Yale 10; Harvard 0. 1892 ale 6; Harvard 0. 1S93--Y ale 6; Harvard O. 1S94-Yale 12; Harvard 4, 1995--NO game. 1S96-NO game 1S97-Haryard 0; Yale O. 1S9S- Harvard IT: Yale 0. 1S99-Harvard O; Yale o. 19OO-YaIe 2S; Harvard 0. 1901-Harvard 22; Yale 0.
Public domain, from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through American Stories (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.