The 1921 season

562 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. California, Cornell, Iowa and Lafayette claim the national title. Share

The 1921 Notre Dame teamPhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Scoreboards

Conference champions

Major college

Missouri Valley Conference: Nebraska
Pacific Coast Conference: California
Rocky Mountain Conference: Utah State
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt (shared)
Southwest Conference: Texas A&M
Western Conference: Iowa

Small college

Columbia Valley Conference: Eastern Washington
Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Louisiana Tech
Northwest Ohio League: Bowling Green
Ohio Athletic Conference: Miami (OH)

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

13 playersAll 8 selectors’ teams

Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1921 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1921 All-America teams page.

From the newspapers

The Evening public ledger's story: LQNSUNGHERO BROUGHT PENN STATE VICTORY OVERCOLDEN TORNADO Made Killenger's 9O-Ywd Run for a Touchdown Possible by Spilling THO Georgia Tech IdckterS. Southerner — Oct 29, 1921Penn State 28, Georgia Tech 71921 Penn State · 1921 Georgia TechEvening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], November 2, 1921, page 17
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Bowls and playoff

Scoreboard

Dec 26, 1921	Centre 38, Arizona 0San Diego East-West Christmas Classic
Jan 2, 1922	Texas A&M 22, Centre 14Dixie Classic
Jan 2, 1922	Washington & Jefferson 0, California 0Rose Bowl