The 1906 season
355 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Princeton claims the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Clemson and Vanderbilt (shared)
Small college
- Ohio Athletic Conference
- Ohio State
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
- ERobert Forbes, Yale
- ECaspar Wister, Princeton
- OTLucius Horatio Biglow, Yale
- OTJames Cooney, Princeton
- OTCharles Osborne, Harvard
- OGFrancis Burr, Harvard
- OGElmer Thompson, Cornell
- OGGus Ziegler, Penn
- CWilliam Thomas Dunn, Penn State
- CWilliam Newman, Cornell
- QBWalter Eckersall, Chicago
- QBEdward Dillon, Princeton
- RBWilliam F. Knox, Yale
- RBJohn W. Mayhew, Brown
- FB/EBill Hollenback, Penn
- FBPaul Veeder, Yale
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1906 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1906 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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no SCORE At PRINCETON Fierce Fight Between Blues ard Tigers Results IN Tie. HOME TEAM O.sAPPONTs ITS FRIENDS Plays So Prominent I’m Practice Games Are Lacking and FumbIes spoil Chances 10 score. and FumbIes spoil Chances 60 score. PRINCETON. n. j., Nov. l1-Princeton and Yale today played nothing to moth. ing foot ball game the first time in nearly twenty years that neither eleven has ! scored The wearers of the orange and | black had confidently expected to win, as | the Princeton team this fall was Of the best product, and so hopeful were they NJ success that odds Of : to were freely accepted just prior to the game, that Yale would be defeated. But the Princeton eleven Of today was disappointment, thc lightning-like plays which the coaches / had been depending on to confound the Yale boys were lacking and r. Dillon, the 7 wonderful little quarter back, upon whom such high hopes had been built. fumbled miseraby. This was especially the case ! on punts. While he made some pretty | running catches and once got away Tor a run of fortv-nve yards. his dropping of punts would have resulted disastrously to Princeton had IL not been Tor the fast work Of Whistler Princeton’s left end | This player was all over the field anl | his running down under kicks was little short of marvellous. Princeton lacked n diversity of attack It could not gain on fakes, neither could 1t pierce the Yale line with any degree OF success. Yale, on the other hand. was able to make a consistent game against Princetons line, and il looked as though | the Blues must have scored a few minutes before the close OF the game had they stuck TO straight foot ball instead of at tempting fancy plays Princeton ROOtcrs Encouraged. Near the finish Yale secured the ball in Princetons territory near the centa, Of the field. BY line smashing, in which Morse, Linn and Forbes made gains. Yale had che ball within a few yards of Prince toms goal. A delayed pass was attempted, / Yale man was of side and what looked like “A possible touchdown for Yale went ! for naught. Veedcr attempted several ! goals from the field, but Harlan. who de-. feated West Point by his field goals, did not get close enough to goal to try his / usually sure foot. Several penalties were inflicted by the OIL ( ficials and each team suffered alike i’m this respect. / Time was taken out twice because Of in / juries to Princeton players. but Yale did | not ask for single instance. Captain Dill ! lon OF Princeton was forced to retire from ! the game, as was also Harlan. In the last minute Of play with Yale pushing the Princeton team steadily toward the lat { ter’s goal, Roome, Yale’s great halfbacE. ! who has been incapacitated, trotted on / the field. Yale supporters became almost delrious and yelled frantically for ! “Roome,” “Roome;” Touchdown” Touch down. but just as the Yale crack was making ready TO get into the lineup the / whistle blew, announcing the close of the game. The teams were on the field seventy. seven minutes. which is probably a record game for shortness / The crowd was the largest that ever wit messed a Hale-Princeton game, in Prince | ton, it being estimated at 5000. Many thousands came from New YorI, and Philadelphia in the twenty-five special trains and other thousands came in auto ! mobiles Details OF the Plays. ! The coin was tossed at .:O5 o’clock and Captain Dillon called the turn and chose the south goal for the Princetons. / Score, first half: Yale. 0: Princeton, O. After fast but not very spectacular play by both teams Wister tackled Knox. The latter neeled the catch and Princeton was penalized fifteen yards. Morse made three yards through center and Veeder kicked , to +. Dillon on PrinCeton’s forty-five-yard ! line. Harley returned the kick to Yale’s | thirty-yard line, and Knox brought the ! ball back ten yards. Veeder kicked and L. Dillon fumbled on Prnceton’s thirty-fiveyard line. This was the first time the hail had been in. Prirceton’s territory in Yale, 5 possession. On forward pass Knox carried the ball eight yards, Veeder went through right tackle for four yards and the ball was on PrincetOns twenty-fve-yard line. } Veeder tried the center for no gain. Princeton was penalized for interference On the next line-Lp Yale was penalized Tor onside play and Vedeer made beauti- full forward pass OF the ball, which Paige caught on Princetons seven-yard line Princeton was given the ball before II had touched the ground before being caught Harlan kicked on a first down, the ball going TO Yale on Princeton’s forty-dve. yard line. Knox failed al center. Veeder then attempted another forward pass but Princeton secured the ball. r. Dillon got the ball on Princeton’s seven-yard line and Harkin returned the punt to Knox on Princeton’s thirtv-nina. yard line. Knox heeled the catch and Biglow attempted a goal from placement ne pall went VIDE. r. Dillon securing n back OF the goal posts, Princeton Iined mr. on the tweuty-yard line and Mccormick kicked To Yales forty-yard line Morse fumbled, but Knox fell on the ball for Yale. Veeder kicked on the first dovrn the ball going TO f. Dillon on Princetop,s thirty-three-yard line. Time for the first half called at this point. Score, first half. Yale o; Princeton, 0. Second Half Begins. The two teams came on the field for the | second half at 2:52 p. m. Two attenpts AZ center by Veeder and Knox failed TO gain and Yale was given Ave yards because tbe | Princeton man was offside. Jones made eight yards through left tackle and the bail was in mid-HeId. DAM went in in Captain Dilon’s place at guard Morse went through center for three wards and repeated the play for hve additional | yards Morse again took the ball and carried II for first down. Veeder made six ward. | through center and Jones made anotbe, first down. The ball was now on Prince TOMS twenty-five yard line in YaIe’s poses | SION. ]