The 1908 season
395 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Kansas
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
- EHunter Scarlett, Penn
- EGeorge Schildmiller, Dartmouth
- OTHamilton Fish, Harvard
- OTBill Horr, Syracuse
- OTPercy Northcroft, Navy
- OGHamlin Andrus, Yale
- OGWilliam Goebel, Yale
- OGBernard O’Rourke, Cornell
- OGClark Tobin, Dartmouth
- CCharles Nourse, Harvard
- RB/QBWalter Steffen, Chicago
- QBEd Lange, Navy
- RBHamilton Corbett, Harvard
- FB/EBill Hollenback, Penn
- RBFrederick Tibbott, Princeton
- FBTed Coy, Yale
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1908 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1908 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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nv PAUL \ aRuskE. opponent. OF unexpected strength, Yost’s Michigan football eleven had TO learn enc Of the lessons Saturday that Is acquired only by the experience to be gained on the battlefield. II hal to learn to play the game on onens” without the use OF hands, relying on shoulder and hip to detain and ham per opponents from breaking through It’s q lesson that is probably harde for a green team 10 learn than an other. All the instincts rebel at IL. HANDS ARE MANS NORMAL MEANS FOR SUCH WORK. The green, willing giants on Yosts line forgot the admonitions OF their tutor and held Ohio 10 such an extent that rigid application OF penalties TOOK away the distance they were steadily gaining, about as fast as they got 1t. For while In the early stages or the game Michigan was penalized a. the rate OF ten yards a minute. The fact that the team retained the ball nearly all the time In spite OF such terrific handIcaps shows that the estimate put on the abl- several days ago was not bit too high. Holding undoubtedly cost Michigan one and probably two touchdowns. BUT THE MAIZE AND BLUE WAS LEARNING IT’S LITTLE STUNT and. IN the last half the penalties were fewer. Michigan trimmed Ohio by score OF 10 TO s, Ohio’s one touchdown being the result of clearly missed tackle by Ranney and Wasmund-an AFFAIR which. so far as the little quarter Is concerned, does not happen often and may not occur again this season. Outside the holding and the accident allrded TO above, Michigan played pow erful football, pulled of several start ling forward passes, hit the line hard and showed In Ailerdice a pdnter o. FIRST class ability, as well as a goal kicker OF accuracy and strength. IL fact. il was the Hoosier lad who kicked Michigan’s first goal in the first half and contributed the touchdown that won IT, the second. bucking for three yards through between guard and tackle. Michigan will be a greatly i’m proved team against Vanderbilt at Ann Arbor on Saturday or the writer is very much in error. From q Michigan standpoint the most interesting game was the one In which Syracuse, Michigan’s Nov. II foe. held Princeton TO 0 TO o tie. Capt. Horr’s men actually outplayed the doughty Tigers and deserve rank well near the top OF the eastern teams, In spite OF their defeat at the hands of the Carlisle Indians earlier in the season, before their team work had been perfected. Princeton was lucky to maintain an un-crossed goal line throughout the contest and only q sensational tackle by Capt Dillon. OF Princeton saved his team. For the first -tinie-iH- three years, Penn succeeded In holding the Car Isle Indians TO an even thing. The braves are not so strong as last year and Penn Is probably u bit better. AT the finish the aborigines were coming fast and Penn was lucky 10 escape, however. The Harvard–Navy 6 TO 6 tie COM pleted a remarkable record OF drawn games in the eastern arena. AS at Princeton and Philadelphia II was the little school which did the better work. This new football is putting teams on q. more even basis and with Increasing regularity we are getting, tie and no-score games where, In former years, we used e have 22 to and similar scores.