The 1922 season
616 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. California, Cornell, Iowa and Princeton claim the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Missouri Valley Conference
- Nebraska
- Pacific Coast Conference
- California
- Rocky Mountain Conference
- Utah
- Southern Conference
- Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Vanderbilt (shared)
- Southwest Conference
- Baylor
Small college
- California Coast Conference
- Fresno State
- Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Hampton
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- St. Thomas (MN)
- North Central Conference
- South Dakota State
- Northwest Ohio League
- Bowling Green
- Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference
- Tulsa
- Southern California Junior College Conference
- San Diego 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
- EHarold Muller, California
- EWendell Taylor, Navy
- OTJohn Thurman, Penn
- OTHerb Treat, Princeton
- OGCharles Hubbard, Harvard
- OGFrank Schwab, Lafayette
- CEdgar Garbisch, Army
- FBGordon Locke, Iowa
- RBHarry Kipke, Michigan
- RBEddie Kaw, Cornell
- FBJohn Webster Thomas, Chicago
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1922 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1922 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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SMASHING DRIVE -. Of CORNHUsKERS IS IRRESISTIBLE Notre Dame Goes Down Before Powerful Nebraska Team in Great Battle. PERSHING WATCHES GAME By United Ne4os LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. Smash ing through the opposing line, alter mating end runs and successful aerial program. the Nebraska corn huskers trimmed the fighting Irish” from Notre Dame In the annual Thanksgiving classic of the Middle West at Nebraska Field. II to 6. Except for one period. the third when Notre Dame made her lone touchdown by combining a series Of line plunges and a brilliant forward pass attack, the Cornhuskers out played the South Bend eleven. Captain Hartley, full back, and Noble, at right half, plowed through for gain after gain. in the ample grooves torn In Notre Danes defense by the line OF Nebraska. The fourteen points Of the Corn huskers We’re established In the SEQ, ond period, which began with the ball in Nebraska’s possession on her own forty-seven-yard line. Among the $4,000 spectators who crowded the stands was Gen. John ]. Pershing, who was given great ovation on entering the field, and later Joined the ovations given to the brilliant flashes by the players. Huskers Start Strong Nebraska began to demonstrate her superiority in the first quarter. A series Of line bucks dating from her thirty-eightyard line carried the ball twenty-five yards: penalty lost Notre Dame five. and a variety of play made nineteen more. After an incomplete pass. Nebraska punted out of bounds on Notre Danes twenty-seven-ya rl mark. Losing a couple of yards. ami failing to gain thereafter. Notre Dame punted to Nebraska’s twenty fve-yard line and the Cornhuskers started down the field. The first quarter ended with the score. 0 to 0. Nebraska’s march toward the goal was interrupted only by a Vineyard penalty for off-side, and was featured principally by line,bucking of the powerful corn-husker backs. From the twenty yard line Scherer advanced sixteen on an end run. Noble ADDED seven more on two line smashes and Hartley crossed for a touchdown and kicked for the extra point. / Thinks looked better for the irish when they recovered a tumble on Ne. braska’s thirty five-yard line. but only / for a minute. for Crowley also man aged TO tumble, and it was Nebraska s ball on the same spot. An exchanges OF punts followed. Degree again kicked out of hounds on Notre Danes | thirty-eight-yard line, whereupon q / long and beautifully executed forward 1 rass from Hartley to Noble, with praiseworthy field running by the lat ter took the ball over the line again ard Hartley kicked the goal. Ne I braska appeared on her way to an / other touchdown when the half end ed on Notre Danes thirty-two-ya yard line. Notre Dame Opens UD Notre Dame flashed at the begin ming of the second half, and took the hall from her twenty-four-yard line &c the Nebraska goal A little line hucking, short aerial gains, and two ! great passes brought the Irish their touchdown. I4ayden hurled to Vegra for a twenty-four-yard gain, and an otoher to Don Miller took the ball forty yards for a touchdown. Then Layden missed the kick. The quarter ended with the ball on Nebraska s | thirty-five-yard line. Another drive by the Irish threat. ] L \ Nr.k ~, -.,eIrr “a / the ball after Notre Dame had adj / Tanced to the Husker two-yard line. A series OF line smashes terminated with a tumble, which Notre Dame recovered on her forty-fve-yard line. More punts and more incompleted passes ensued. the game ending with the ball in Notre Danes possession on her thirty-nine-yard line.
Bowls and playoff
Scoreboard| Dec 25, 1922 | West Virginia 21, Gonzaga 13San Diego East-West Christmas Classic |
| Jan 1, 1923 | USC 14, Penn State 3Rose Bowl |