The 1920 season
521 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. California and Princeton claim the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Oklahoma
- Pacific Coast Conference
- California
- Rocky Mountain Conference
- Colorado State
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Georgia, Georgia Tech and Tulane (shared)
- Southwest Conference
- Texas
- Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- TCU
- Western Conference
- Ohio State
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
- EChuck Carney, Illinois
- OTBill Fincher, Georgia Tech
- ELuke Urban, Boston College
- OG/OTStan Keck, Princeton
- OTRalph Scott, Wisconsin
- OGTim Callahan, Yale
- OGTom Woods, Harvard
- OGIolas Huffman, Ohio State
- C/OGHerb Stein, Pittsburgh
- QBDonold Lourie, Princeton
- RBGaylord Stinchcomb, Ohio State
- RBCharley Way, Penn State
- FBGeorge Gipp, Notre Dame
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1920 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1920 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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GEORGIA TECH DEFEATS AUBURN Plainsmen FAN Before Terrific + Attack Of Golden Tornado. GRANT FIELD. Nov. 2S--Georgia Tech administered decisive defeat to Auburn in their annual Thanks giving day game here winning, ga to 0. The Tech backs showed their abllity time and again to make the gains that piled up tho five touchdowns, but the greatest plays were the won derful broken field runs Of Captain Flowers, of Tech. Shirling was Auburns best ground gamer. Three Of Techs touchdowns were on steady drives down the field. one OF them being aided by a perfectly executed forward pass from Flow ers to j. Station. Captain Flowers, one Of Techs greatest backfield. men of all time, brought his football ca reer to a spectacular close in defeat ing Auburn. He not only gained time and again, but two Of the three touchdowns he made were on runs OF some 80 yards in returning the long punts that Ollinger sent down the field. Flowers showed himself a wonderful punter, once booting the ball 65 yards before it touched the ground. He also tried two field goals, but missed, one from the 40 yard line and another from A yards. Auburn gained at times. especially during the second and third periods, but never appeared dangerous to Tech. A cheoki showed that Tech made 16 first downs to Auburn’s six. 1t was the last game for three Of Techs stars-Flowers Ferst and Fincher. All Auburn men, 1t was stated, are eligible to play next season, but Captain Sizemore is to graduate in June.
Bowls and playoff
Scoreboard| Jan 1, 1921 | California 28, Ohio State 0Rose Bowl |
| Jan 1, 1921 | Centre 63, TCU 7Fort Worth Classic |