The 1912 season
425 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Harvard claims the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Iowa State and Nebraska (shared)
- South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Georgetown
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Vanderbilt
- Western Conference
- Wisconsin
Small college
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Howard
- Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Eastern Illinois
- Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Kansas State
- 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
- EDouglas Bomeisler, Yale
- ESam Felton, Harvard
- OTWesley Englehorn, Dartmouth
- OTBob Butler, Wisconsin
- OGStan Pennock, Harvard
- OGJohn Logan, Princeton
- C/OGHank Ketcham, Yale
- QBGeorge Crowther, Brown
- RBCharles E. Brickley, Harvard
- RBJim Thorpe, Carlisle
- FBLeroy Mercer, Penn
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1912 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1912 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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penalized as much Robbins makes % yards around left end After a split buck by Turner, he follows with a straight buck gaining yards. A fun bic costs Vandy 10 yards. A line plunge nets nothing Robbins then punts 35. There is no return. Newell makes 8 yards around end A line play brings La first down for Auburn. The ball is ON Auburn’s 45-yard line. Christopher takes Sparkman’s place at full, After line plunge Auburn fumbles Vandy gets the ball in mid field. On the next play Vandy gets Is more the wrong way for holding. on a fake forward pass Collins makes Is yards. Following some line plunges, Vandy tries forward pass. 1t goes out of bounds and is Auburn’s ball on her 35yard line. Majors punts so yards the 10-yard line. A couple of plunges and trick gives Vandy 10 yards and a first down. Four more attempts net no gain. and Robbins punts Auburn tries four times, and likewise fumbles. On trick. Skies makes 10 yards Two plunges and fake kick avail Vandy nothing, and Robbins punts. Majors makes Is yards on an end run, but is called back Time is then called for the end of the half soore-Vandy 7, Auburn o. Between the halves the Auburn men pulled a snake dance. SECOND HALF. When play was resumed in the sec ond half Vanderbilt kicked south As yards Majors returned Is. Two line plunges netted Auburn no gain. Vandy was penalized yards for offside. Auburn could not make first down and Majors punted over Vandys goal line. 1t was put in play on the 20-yard line Three line plunges netted first down for Vandy Four more attempts gave no result and Robbins kicked out of bounds on Auburn 25-yard line. Auburn couldn’t gain and punted, but it was called back and Auburn was penalized yards for offside. Ma jors then kicked again and the ball went to Auburn on her 35-yard line. 1t took Vandy three plays to make first down. but the Commodores did It, Two straight line plunges netted an other first down. Vandy is playing straight football. on the next play Vandy fumbled the ball Newell got | It with a clear field and, outrunning all pursuers, sneaked across the Vandy goal line for a clean touchdown. Ma jors kicked the goal Score-7 to 7. After the kick off Auburn made three | fruitless tries and then Majors punted Robbins fumbled the ball and Auburn recovered it on the Commodores’ 80 yard line. ! After some line plunging Arnold slipped through for Is yards. Another play put the ball within yards Of vandy’s goal. Two line plunges net ted nothing. Ressijac carried the ball to the two yard line on a center plunge. The next play was spilled and the ball goes over on the vineyard line. Robbins punted out to the 25yard lime. Auburn is penallzed Is yards for holding A forward pass from Newell to Majors netted Is yards on the go