The 1907 season
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Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- William & Mary
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Nebraska
- South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- NC State
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Vanderbilt
- Western Conference
- Iowa
Small college
- Michigan Conference
- Michigan 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
- EBill Dague, Navy
- EClarence Alcott, Yale
- EAlbert Exendine, Carlisle
- ECaspar Wister, Princeton
- OTDexter Draper, Penn
- OTLucius Horatio Biglow, Yale
- OGGus Ziegler, Penn
- OGWilliam Erwin, Army
- CGermany Schulz, Michigan
- CPatrick Grant, Harvard
- QBTad Jones, Yale
- RBJack Wendell, Harvard
- RBEdwin Harlan, Princeton
- FBTed Coy, Yale
- FBJim McCormick, Princeton
- FBPeter Hauser, Carlisle
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1907 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1907 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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YALE Is VICTORIOUS rRNcEroS FOUGHT HARD RATTLE BUT LOST. z !. ls IL wsssa Great Game and Was witness- cd hy Thlrty-Four Thoussnd Feet Ban Enthusfssts. Coy Was star, q, wA- -~ New Haven. Conn. Nov 1s--The Yale bull dek won over the Princeton tiger on the foot ball field this afternoon, with score of i2 to 1o< Thirty-four thousand. foot ball entht. siasts saw the hardest fought game of 1 the year, the result being in doubt un- III the referees whistle blew the final time. For the first time since 1905, the Orange and Black crossed the goal line of the Blue. and aided by the toe ! of Harlan. added the score of a field | goal to her touchdown and goal. | IL WIS 10 to against Yale at one stage, but Yale grit came to her rescue and good generalship found holes in I the weakened Princetoniine In the sec | ond half. Through these. her men bore and Coy was driven over the line with q force that crumpied up the Princeton line. Twice this happened and twice | Captain Bigelow kicked the sorely | needed goals. With the margin of two points to the good. Quarterback Jones | uncovered for Yale many a fake Kick. . fake formation for goal>from place nent. and deceptive line up for a fake fe ward pass, which meant a run | ticle in a forward pass which brought | much ground gain. A< | But this brilliant plan of campaign | did not bring another score, though many times Yale had the ball almost | under Princeton’s goal posts. The | advantage could not be drfven--home for Princeton’s game line stiffencd and | Yale would fall to score. Once after | Tad Jones had made a brilliant run and tho Yale baSl<s were lighting their l way to the goal line, Coy was shot | over for what Yale men thought was | another touchdown. There had been holding and the ball was set back many | yards s A wave of suspense stopped by . | stirring Yale song, swept the Yale stands sor Gcy’s gruelling work had come to nothing. Again Yale worked l the ball to the eight-yard line, where the necessary distance for three downs not having been made the leather went to Princeton. These were instances of the hearts, aching, breaking pace of the game, spectacular much of the time. sepsa- Ettonal in tts developments all of the time.J Yale wasl never at her ease, for Princeton’s grit was seen throughout the second half when it seemed as if her men were outplayed because they were played out, and there was always snatch Victory from the jaws Of the Yale Bull Dog. Todays game was so full of the good things which had been worked out as far as possible under the revised rules, that an anaylsis of the work of both teams called for ample calculation of the condition which varied with the pressing moments. In the first half, as in last year tu the non-seore game, 1t seemed to be all Princeton She had elected to receive the ball on the kick or and through the half, her energies were directed to keeping possession Of the ball, to run her plays swift, with q sharp attack; plenty of end runs and when forced to do so. dropping Harlan back for hicks which were Ions, high and fnely directed. Yale found herself on the defensive, and when she had the ball, her plays wera atartad without much speed and they did not seem to work, her wing shifts and plays outside of the tackle being broken up. Yale’s formation on the defensive was so open that 1t did not seem hard for Mccormick to drive through the line, assisted by Harlan and Tibbetts. In this half, Princeton made 29l yards by rushing. against 11S by Yale. In the second half. Yale rushed the ball 223 yards as against 3S yards bH Princeton, evidenee that Yale The first touchdown came after Jones had failed on an on-side kick, Booth or Princeton getting the ball and runJnns seventy yards for touchdown. Not many minutes later Princeton got the ball on kick. by Coy and after Yale tried two end runs with little success, delayed passes wSfesused as if the snap back, McCormick And eAarian going through the wings so that the ball reached Yale’s sixteen yard line in front of the goal. What happened then was expected for Harlan’s toe was a good medium to add four more points The second half is story. in itself. The same men were there but Yale played real football, keeping the ball when she got it, harnmertng the Prince ton line at every chance until both the tackles seemed In bad shape and max ing the Princeton ends run themselves after dropping back as if to Kick. or the very elusiye Jones. Many times only little DiIlon stood between him and the goal line T,6 but he Ss,nwiSx waS SufeS nm down by an ankel hold. Every minute of play brought some, thing unexpected. Princeton rushed against 1s5 for Yale. Harlan punted nine times for an average of thirty five yards as against Coy’s seven for an average of thirty mine. Yale made three SucCcBSIul paSoOS fifty-two yards while Princeton work ed only one for ten yards. Princeton lost the ball once on-side KICK anu gained fifteen yards on another try and Yale lost once on similar play. Three out of four of Harlan’s tries for a field goal failed and each team lost the ball once on a tumble. Individual iy, Coy of Yale, did the most work in ground gaining. The game had for a setting an amphi-t theatre of humanity in which the sombre weather raiment was re- lieged with yellow chrysanthemums. orange blossoms, large punches or violets and blue manners. Miss Ethei’ Roosevelt sat in the Yale stand with a party who were guests of Charies Glover. of Washington. member or the Sophomore class Vice President Fairbanks was ex- pected but did not come. The line up: Yale-H. Jones. LIE; Page. IT; Cooney. and Foster. LG.; Congdon, C: CSoebel, RG.; Bigelow, RT. Alcott, RE-; T. Jones. QB.; Brides, LIB; 6omar and Murphy, RHB,: Coy. FB. Princeton-Wister LIZ; Booth; IT.; Waller, LG.; Phillips. C.; McFsyden. RE; Dillon, QB.; Tibbett. LfiB.; liar Ian. RIB. - Summary-Score. Yale 12; Princeton. 10. Touchdowns. Coy. ?, Booth. Goals from touchdowns, Bigelow, 2; Harlan. Goal from field Time thirty-five min ntes halves. The official of the game Referee M j. Thompson, George town. Umpire, MT. Okeson, Lehign’ Field Judge, A. F. Whiting, Cornell