1904 College Football All-America Team
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The 1904 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Team
s that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly
selected by Walter Camp
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College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...
s that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
selected by Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
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Key
- WC = Collier's WeeklyCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
as selected by Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football... - CW = Caspar WhitneyCaspar WhitneyCaspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine....
for Outing Magazine - NYS = New York SunNew York SunThe New York Sun was a weekday daily newspaper published in New York City from 2002 to 2008. When it debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of an otherwise unrelated earlier New York paper, The Sun , it became the first general-interest broadsheet newspaper to be started...
- NYT = New York TribuneNew York TribuneThe New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States...
- NYH = New York HeraldNew York HeraldThe New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835, and 1924.-History:The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Sr., on May 6, 1835. By 1845 it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the UnitedStates...
- PR = New York Press
- NYET = New York Evening Telegram
- PNA = Philadelphia North American
- PI = Philadelphia Inquirer
- FL = Fred LowenthalFred LowenthalFred Lowenthal was an American football player, coach, sportswriter, and attorney. He served as head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1904, along with Arthur R. Hall, Justa Lindgren, and Clyde Matthews, and alone in 1905, compiling a record of 14–6–1...
, coach of the University of Illinois
- Bold - Consensus All-American
- 1 - First Team Selection
- 2 - Second Team Selection
- 3 - Third Team Selection
All-Americans of 1904
Ends
- Tom ShevlinTom ShevlinThomas Leonard Shevlin was an All-American football end and coach at Yale University and a millionaire lumberman. He is one of the few players in the history of college football to be selected as an All-American four consecutive years...
, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA; PI) - Fred Speik, Chicago (CW-1)
- Ralph GlazeRalph GlazeDaniel Ralph Glaze was an American athlete and coach who played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later became a football and baseball coach and administrator at several colleges....
, Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2; NYH; NYET) - Garfield Wilson Weede, Penn (WC-2; NYS-1; PNA-1)
- Chester T. Neal, Yale (NYS-2; NYT; PI)
- Thomas W. Hammond, Army (NYS-2; PR)
- Alexander Garfield "A.G." Gillespie, Army (WC-2)
- Claude RothgebClaude Rothgeb-External links:* as College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com...
, Illinois (WC-3; FL) - Russ, Brown (CW-2)
- Bush, Wisconsin (FL)
Tackles
- James HoganJames Hogan (American football)James J. Hogan was an Irish American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1901 to 1904.-References:...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL) - James CooneyJames Cooney (American football)James Lawrence Cooney was an All-American football player. He played tackle for Princeton University football team and was selected as an All-American in 1904. He also was a star catcher for Princeton's baseball team from 1903-1906...
, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PI) - Joe CurtisJoe CurtisJoseph S. "Big Joe" Curtis was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904–1906 and as an All-American in 1904 and 1905...
, Michigan (WC-2; FL) - James R. Bloomer, Yale (CW-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1; FL [sub])
- Tom ThorpTom Thorp-References:...
, Columbia (WC-2; CW-2; NYS-2) - Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz, Penn (WC-3)
- Doe, Army (WC-3)
Guards
- Frank PiekarskiFrank Piekarski-References:...
, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI) - Joseph GilmanJoseph GilmanJoseph Atherton Gilman was an All-American football player at Harvard University. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Gilman attended Exeter before enrolling at Harvard. As a freshman, Gilman played on Harvard's freshman football team. In his third year at Harvard, he was declared ineligible due to...
, Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1) - Ralph Kinney, Yale (WC-1; CW-2 NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
- Roswell C. Tripp, Yale (WC-2; CW-2 NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PI)
- Short, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2; PR)
- Walton W. Thorpe, Minnesota (WC-3; FL)
- Fairweather, Illinois (FL)
Centers
- Arthur Tipton, Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
- Clint Roraback, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
- Robert Grant Torrey, Penn (WC-3; CW-2)
- Hazelwood, Illinois (FL)
Quarterbacks
- Vincent Stevenson, Penn (WC-1; NYS-2; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
- Foster RockwellFoster RockwellFoster Haven Rockwell was an All-American football player and hotelier. A native of Vermont, Rockwell played football at Yale University and was selected as the quarterback on the 1902 College Football All-America Team and was a member of Skull and Bones...
, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET) - Harris, Minnesota (WC-3)
- Starr, Harvard (CW-2)
Halfbacks
- Daniel Hurley, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
- Willie HestonWillie HestonWilliam Martin "Willie" Heston was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake University in 1905 and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North...
, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYET; FL) - Lydig Hoyt, Yale (WC-3; CW-2 [fb]; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
- Jack OwsleyJack OwsleyJohn Ebsworth "Jack" Owsley was an American football player and coach and businessman. He played college football, principally as a left halfback, for Yale University from 1901 to 1904. He was the head coach of Yale's undefeated 1905 football team that outscored opponents 226 to 4...
, Yale (NYS-2) - Marshall Reynolds, Penn (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
- W. E. MetzenthinW. E. MetzenthinWaldemar Eric Metzenthin was a German American scholar. He served as professor of German studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He also coached the Texas Longhorns football team and men's basketball team from 1907–08 and 1909–11, respectively....
, Columbia (NYH) - Hubbard, Amherst (WC-2; CW-2)
- James Vaughn, Dartmouth (WC-3)
- W. C. Leavenworth, Yale (PI)
- Prince, Army (CW-2)
- Walter L. Foulke, Princeton (FL [sub])
Fullbacks
- Walter EckersallWalter EckersallWalter "Eckie" Eckersall was an American football player, official, and sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.-Early life:...
, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [e]; CW-1; FL [qb]) - Andrew Smith, Penn (WC-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL [hb])
- Henry TorneyHenry TorneyHenry Walter Torney was an American football player and industrial engineer. He was an All-American at the halfback, fullback positions in 1904 and 1905 while attending the United States Military Academy. He later became an industrial engineer.-Biography:Torney was the son of George H. Torney,...
, Army (CW-1 [hb]; NYT; NYET) - Mills, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; PR)
- John R. BenderJohn R. BenderJohn R. "Chief" Bender was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Washington State University , Haskell Indian Nations University , Kansas State University , and the University of Tennessee , compiling a career record of...
, Nebraska (WC-3) - Catlin, Chicago (FL)