1912 college football season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1912 college football season was the first of the modern era, as the NCAA implemented changes to increase scoring:

Teams were given 4 downs instead of 3 downs to gain ten yards
The value of a touchdown was increased from 5 points to 6 points
The field was reduced from 110 yards to 100 yards, and end zones of ten yards were added
Kickoff was made from the 40 yard line rather than midfield.

September

September 21 The first six-point touchdowns were registered in Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

's 26-0 victory over Bates College and Carlisle's 50-7 win over Albright College. Cornell defeated Washington & Jefferson 3-0. Maine defeated Fort McKinley 38-0, Rhode Island State College beat Massachusetts Agricultural 7-0, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

(RPI) beat Schenectady's Columbia College, 13-0

September 28
Harvard

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

beat Maine 7-0 and Yale

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

beat Holy Cross 7-0.
Princeton

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

beat Stevens 65-0 and three days later, beat Rutgers 41-6.
Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

beat Norwich 41-9. After opening with a 33-0 Wednesday win over Albright, Lehigh

Lehigh University

Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...

beat Delaware 45-0. Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....

won at Johns Hopkins 40-6. Carlisle beat Dickinson 35-0, and followed on Wednesday with a 65-0 win over Villanova at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

The Vanderbilt Commodores football program is a college football team that represents Vanderbilt University. The team currently competes in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Southeastern Conference...

opened with a 105-0 win over visiting Bethel College.

October

October 5
Harvard

Harvard University

beat Holy Cross 19-0; Yale

Yale University

beat Syracuse, 21-0; Princeton

Princeton University

defeated Lehigh

Lehigh University

35-0; and Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

beat Massachusetts 47-0
Carlisle and Washington & Jefferson played a scoreless tie. Penn State beat Carnegie Tech 41-0. Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

won at Lafayette 22-0. Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

The Wisconsin Badgers are a college football program that represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football...

opened with a 13-0 win over Lawrence College, Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...

beat Case 34-0, and Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

beat Indiana 13-0. Texas

Texas Longhorns football

The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...

defeated TCU 30-10.
Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

scored in triple digits again, but was scored upon, in a 100-3 win over Maryville College. Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

The Georgia Bulldogs football team represents the University of Georgia in football. The Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference and are frequently a top-25 team. The University of Georgia has had a football team since 1892 and has an all-time record of 738–398–54...

beat Chattanooga 33-0 and Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...

beat Mercer 56-0 in a game at Columbus, Georgia.

October 12
Harvard

Harvard University

defeated Williams 26-3, Yale

Yale University

beat Lafayette 16-0, Princeton

Princeton University

beat Virginia Tech 31-0, and Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

defeated Vermont 55-0. Penn State beat Washington & Jefferson 30-0, Carlisle won at Syracuse 33-0, Lehigh

Lehigh University

won at Navy, 14-0 and Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

won at Penn 6-3. Georgetown

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

beat Washington & Lee, 20-0

Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

beat visiting Rose-Hulman Institute 54-0.
Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

beat The Citadel 33-0. Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

beat visiting Florida 27-13. Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

beat Northwestern 56-0 and Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

defeated Michigan State 55-7.
October 19
Yale

Yale University

won at Army, 16-0, Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

won at Williams 21-0, Harvard

Harvard University

beat Amherst 46-0, and Princeton

Princeton University

beat Syracuse 62-0 and as all four Ivy teams stayed unbeaten. Penn State won at Cornell 29-6, Carlisle won at Pittsburgh 45-8, and
Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

won at Annapolis, defeating Navy 21-6, to stay unbeaten. Georgetown

Georgetown University

won at North Carolina State, 48-0.

Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

and Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

met in Atlanta. Vandy handed the Bulldogs their only loss in a 46-0 drubbing. Sewanee beat Chattanooga 27-0, and Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

defeated Clemson 27-6. After warmup wins over Daniel Baker College and Trinity College, Texas A&M

Texas A&M Aggies football

The Texas A&M Aggies football team represents Texas A&M University in college football. The Aggies have competed in the Big 12 Conference since the conference's inception in 1996. They will join the Southeastern Conference in July 2012. Texas A&M football has earned one national title and 18...

beat Arkansas 27-0 in a game at Dallas. In another game at Dallas, Texas

Texas Longhorns football

lost to Oklahoma, 21-6.
Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

beat Purdue

Purdue Boilermakers football

The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...

41-0,
Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

won at Ohio State 14-0, and Chicago

University of Chicago

defeated Iowa 34-14.

October 26
Princeton

Princeton University

(6-0-0) hosted Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

(5-0-0) and won 22-7. Harvard

Harvard University

defeated Brown 30-10 and Yale

Yale University

beat Washington & Jefferson, 13-3. Penn State beat visiting Gettysburg College 25-0 and Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

beat Villanova 27-0.

In an intersectional game, Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

lost at Syracuse 18-7. Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

beat Ole Miss 24-0 in Nashville, and Sewanee beat Tennessee 33-6 at Chattanooga. In Birmingham, Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

defeated Mississippi State, 7-0.

Carlisle won at Georgetown

Georgetown University

, 34-20, followed two days later by a game in Toronto in a 49-7 win against the "Toronto All-Stars".
At Philadelphia, Penn State beat Pennsylvania, 22-6.
Chicago

University of Chicago

beat Purdue

Purdue Boilermakers football

7-0
In Columbus, Georgia, Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

beat Alabama 13-9.

November

November 2
In a matchup of unbeatens, Harvard

Harvard University

(5-0-0) hosted Princeton

Princeton University

(6-0-0). Charles Brickley of Harvard intercepted two passes and kicked a 47 yard field goal and set up a touchdown for Harvard in its 16-6 win

Carlisle won its 9th game, staying unbeaten with a 34-14 win over Lehigh

Lehigh University

. Yale

Yale University

defeated Brown 10-0 and Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

beat Amherst 60-0.

Georgetown

Georgetown University

beat North Carolina 37-10 in a game played in Richmond, Virginia. Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

beat Ursinus 22-0
Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

narrowly beat visiting South Dakota, 7-6. In Philadelphia, Penn State beat Penn 14-0.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

beat Chicago

University of Chicago

30-12 and Purdue

Purdue Boilermakers football

beat Northwestern 21-6. Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

and Sewanee played to a 13-13 tie.Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

stayed unbeaten with a 13-0 win over Virginia. Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

won at Georgia Tech 27-7. Texas

Texas Longhorns football

won at Baylor 19-7.

November 9
In an intersectional meeting between the best teams of the East and the South, Harvard

Harvard University

hosted Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

. Going into the contest, both teams had records of 6-0-0, and Vanderbilt had outscored its opponents 342-3. Harvard played all of its substitutes, and scored a touchdown and a field goal in a 9-3 game to give Vandy its only loss of the season.

Carlisle visited West Point, beating Army 27-6, as Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe * Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28 * americaslibrary.gov, accessed April 23, 2007. was an American athlete of mixed ancestry...

scored three touchdowns and three extra points, and Alex Arcasa scored two more TDs . Army halfback (and future American president) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

was injured while tackling Thorpe. Eisenhower, who was described in the press as someone "who hits the line harder than any other man on the Army team" played his last game the following week against Tufts University.

Lehigh

Lehigh University

won at previously unbeaten (6-0-0) Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

3-0.
Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

beat visiting Arkansas 64-7, Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

lost at Penn, 27-21, Chicago

University of Chicago

beat Northwestern 3-0, and Purdue

Purdue Boilermakers football

and visiting Illinois played to a 9-9 tie.

Penn State beat Villanova 71-0, Princeton

Princeton University

beat NYU 54-0, and Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

beat Amherst 60-0. In Augusta, Georgia, Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

beat Clemson 27-6 and in Atlanta, Sewanee beat Georgia Tech 7-0. Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

defeated LSU 7-0 in a game played at Mobile. In a game at Houston, Texas A&M

Texas A&M Aggies football

beat Oklahoma 28-6. Texas

Texas Longhorns football

beat Ole Miss 53-14 in a Wednesday game at Houston.

November 16
Harvard

Harvard University

beat Dartmouth

Dartmouth College

at home, 3-0.
Yale

Yale University

(7-0-0) traveled to Princeton

Princeton University

(7-1-0) and the teams played to a 6-6 tie. In Philadelphia, Carlisle (10-0-1) suffered its first loss, falling to Penn, 34-26. Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

narrowly beat Bucknell, 14-13. Penn State beat Ohio State in Columbus, 37-0.
Michigan

Michigan Wolverines football

beat Cornell 20-7 to close its season at 5-2-0
Georgetown

Georgetown University

beat Virginia 16-13.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

won at Minnesota 14-0 and Chicago

University of Chicago

won at Illinois 10-0. Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

beat Centre 23-0. Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

beat Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 20-0
Sewanee and Alabama played to a 6-6 tie in Birmingham.
Texas A&M

Texas A&M Aggies football

beat Mississippi State 41-7 at Houston, and beat Tulane three days later, 41-0, to extend its record to 7-0-0.

November 23
At the Yale campus in New Haven, Harvard

Harvard University

(8-0-0) faced Yale

Yale University

(7-0-1) to wrap up the season. Harvard's 20-0 win left it one of two teams that was unbeaten and untied.
Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

closed a perfect season with a 28-10 win at Iowa, to finish 8-0-0. Purdue

Purdue Boilermakers football

beat Indiana 34-7 and Chicago

University of Chicago

won 7-0 over visiting Minnesota. Carlisle won at Springfield College, 30-24.
Lehigh

Lehigh University

won at Lafayette 10-0
Swarthmore

Swarthmore College

closed its season with a 0-0 tie at Dickinson.
In Birmingham, Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

(7-1-0) and Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

(6-0-0) played to a 7-7 tie.
Texas A&M

Texas A&M Aggies football

(7-0-0) beat Kansas State 13-10 and Texas

Texas Longhorns football

defeated Southwestern 28-3.

November 28, Thanksgiving Day, Penn State closed its season with a 38-0 win at Pittsburgh, to finish 8-0-0. Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Commodores football

(8-0-1) defeated visiting previously unbeaten Sewanee (5-0-2), winning 16-0. Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

defeated previously unbeaten Auburn

Auburn Tigers football

12-6. Carlisle closed its season with a 32-0 win at Brown. Georgetown

Georgetown University

beat Virginia Tech 24-3 to close its season at 8-1-0. Texas A&M

Texas A&M Aggies football

finished its season in Dallas with a 53-0 win over Baylor, and Texas

Texas Longhorns football

closed its season with a 48-0 win over visiting Arkansas. Lehigh

Lehigh University

won at Franklin & Marshall, 29-0.

Final standings

East

TEAM	W	L	T	PF	PA
Harvard Crimson Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...	9	0	0	176	.22
Penn State Nittany Lions	8	0	0	285	..6
Carlisle Indians	12	1	1	505	120
Georgetown Hoyas Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...	8	1	0	315	.60
Washington & Lee Generals	8	1	0	202	.59
Princeton Tigers Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....	7	1	1	322	.35
Yale Bulldogs Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...	7	1	1	.89	.32
The Garnet of Swarthmore Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....	7	1	1	152	.31
Lehigh Engineers Lehigh University Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...	9	2	0	222	.72
Dartmouth Big Green Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...	7	2	0	281	.34

Western

TEAM	W	L	T	PF	PA
Wisconsin Badgers Wisconsin Badgers football The Wisconsin Badgers are a college football program that represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football...	7	0	0	246	.29
Chicago Maroons University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...	6	1	0	.86	.44
Michigan Wolverines Michigan Wolverines football The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...	5	2	0	159	.65
Purdue Boilermakers Purdue Boilermakers football The Purdue Boilermakers football team is the intercollegiate football program of the Purdue University Boilermakers. The program is classified in the NCAA's Division I Bowl Subdivision, and the team competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Boilermakers have an all-time record of...	4	2	1	.90	.38

South

TEAM	W	L	T	PF	PA
Texas A&M Aggies Texas A&M Aggies football The Texas A&M Aggies football team represents Texas A&M University in college football. The Aggies have competed in the Big 12 Conference since the conference's inception in 1996. They will join the Southeastern Conference in July 2012. Texas A&M football has earned one national title and 18...	8	1	0	366	.26
Vanderbilt Commodores Vanderbilt Commodores football The Vanderbilt Commodores football program is a college football team that represents Vanderbilt University. The team currently competes in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Southeastern Conference...	8	1	1	391	.19
Texas Longhorns Texas Longhorns football The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate football team representing The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The team currently competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big 12 Conference which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision of the National...	7	1	0	201	.62
Georgia Bulldogs Georgia Bulldogs football The Georgia Bulldogs football team represents the University of Georgia in football. The Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference and are frequently a top-25 team. The University of Georgia has had a football team since 1892 and has an all-time record of 738–398–54...	6	1	1	151	.80
Auburn Tigers Auburn Tigers football Only Mohamed Amin Abughadir set the record with 1,890 yards in 1 season. He was the QB for Auburn in 1998.The Auburn Tigers football team represents Auburn University in college football as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing in the Western Division of the...	6	1	1	164	.45
Sewanee Tigers	5	1	2	221	.41

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

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