The 1919 season
536 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Centre, Harvard, Illinois and Texas A&M claim the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Missouri
- Pacific Coast Conference
- Oregon and Washington (shared)
- Rocky Mountain Conference
- Colorado State
- South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Georgetown
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Auburn
- Southwest Conference
- Texas A&M
- Western Conference
- Illinois
Small college
- Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference
- Tulsa
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
- EBob Higgins, Penn State
- EHeinie Miller, Penn
- ELester Belding, Iowa
- OTPete Henry, Washington & Jefferson
- OTBelford West, Colgate
- OGDoc Alexander, Syracuse
- OGSwede Youngstrom, Dartmouth
- CRed Weaver, Centre
- CCharles Carpenter, Wisconsin
- QBBo McMillin, Centre
- QBBenny Boynton, Williams
- RB/QBChic Harley, Ohio State
- RBEddie Casey, Harvard
- FB/QBIra Rodgers, West Virginia
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1919 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1919 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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GEORGIA TECH DEFEATED PITT WINS SPECTACULAR CONTEST FROM JACKETS Southern Eleven Smn.hrs Panther Line Like CcnpinS I’m second Half, Hut Loses. rITTSHuRGAt oct. 25;-,The Universi;y Of P!ttSbUrgh football team dea spectacular game, ;hat was featured by strong come back on the part OF the yellow Jackets. In the second half oi the game. when they played the Panthers off their feet and crossed their line III ;he third period. they held the Siue and Gold on their own the ball on downs. Then they fel back, and Davies. the star player OF PITT. by a splendid run OF foFiE-hNe yards. put the bail on Techs fourtecn-yard line in the last minute OF play. but before the Pan theirs could push their man over the Tornados aside in the FIRST half of the zane In the second part OF the game. the Tornados showed little Of the spiri, that gave them that name, and Harlan and Flowers smashed through me FIT line like tcnpins, the former down. fincher just missed goal, and while the Painters played the best lheE knew how. they We’re unable to advanc” their score. although they had the ball on Techs foUrtcen-yard line when the game ended. summary and lineup: ..: ict, ‘ end go Ts he M Ia5iaan: i iSft , s”dlS iissias MsTyis riEh, tls ......iiuMin “s Dciiart... quarter bsrk ‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘S - , Pm W WaEiSsi III half back Flowers Hastings. ....:..; full back ....,......Harian Tech ........... ...... 0 Ss summary: northumberland. Hastings Harlan ,:a. Goal from iouchdowns- iisstimEEs. G,oaL from hciG-ltavies Substitution tiNsSurSh; Bremen for Hastings Brown for Etnh, i.auE hcran for Deiiart. Kratzert for Mclean. Bond for Mcrvis. Ashnan Tor Nenn”f IHch-Fcrst for Barron. MELON “nGh for Gill Bruitt for station Rcforrr Nathan \. Tufts CBrown, Umpire II Max, ~ ~ .Hwari nmorol. Head lincSman. NJ.
Bowls and playoff
Scoreboard| Jan 1, 1920 | Harvard 7, Oregon 6Rose Bowl |