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 Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.

All-Americans of 1904

Ends

Tom Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA; PI)
Frederick A. Speik, Chicago (CW-1)
Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2; NYH; NYET)
Garfield 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 Gillespie, Army (WC-2)
Claude Rothgeb, Illinois (WC-3; FL)
Russ, Brown (CW-2)
James Bush, Wisconsin (FL)

Tackles

James Hogan, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL)
James Cooney, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PI)
Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2; FL)
James Bloomer, Yale (CW-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1; FL [sub])
Tom Thorp, Columbia (WC-2; CW-2; NYS-2)
Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz, Penn (WC-3)
Thomas B. Doe, Army (WC-3)

Guards

Frank Piekarski, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
Joseph Gilman, Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1)
Ralph Kinney, Yale (WC-1; CW-2 NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
Roswell Tripp, Yale (WC-2; CW-2 NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PI)
Short, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2; PR)
Walton W. Thorp, Minnesota (WC-3; FL)
Charles A. 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 Torrey, Penn (WC-3; CW-2)
John M. Haselwood, Illinois (FL)

Quarterbacks

Vince Stevenson, Penn (WC-1; NYS-2; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
Foster Rockwell, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET)
Sigmund Harris, Minnesota (WC-3)
Dillwyn Parrish Starr, Harvard (CW-2)

Halfbacks

Daniel Hurley, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
Willie Heston, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYET; FL)
Lydig Hoyt, Yale (WC-3; CW-2 [fb]; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
Jack Owsley, Yale (NYS-2)
Marshall Reynolds, Penn (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
W. E. Metzenthin, Columbia (NYH)
Jack Hubbard, Amherst (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2)
James Vaughn, Dartmouth (WC-3)
W. C. Leavenworth, Yale (PI)
Frederick A. Prince, Army (CW-2)
Walter L. Foulke, Princeton (FL [sub])

Fullbacks

Walter Eckersall, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [e]; CW-1; FL [qb])
Andy Smith, Penn (WC-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL [hb])
Henry Torney, Army (CW-1 [hb]; NYT; NYET)
Philip O. Mills, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; PR)^[1]
John R. Bender, Nebraska (WC-3)
Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (FL)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1904

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[2]^[3]
CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine^[4]

Other selectors

NYS = New York Sun^[5]
NYT = New York Tribune^[5]^[6]
NYH = New York Herald^[5]^[6]
PR = New York Press^[5]
NYET = New York Evening Telegram^[7]
PNA = Philadelphia North American^[8]
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer^[8]
FL = Fred Lowenthal, coach of the University of Illinois^[6]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[9]

1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection

References

^ "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-American Selections - Harvard". Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
^ "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
^ "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
^ Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Western Stars Are Not Named: No Eastern Paper Gives Westerner Place on All-Americans". Atlanta Constitution. December 5, 1904.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Some All-American Football Elevens". The Pittsburgh Press. November 29, 1904.
^ "In the Sporting World". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. December 3, 1904.
^ ^a ^b "Football Critics Picking All-American Aggregations". Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette. December 15, 1904.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[1] "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-American Selections - Harvard". Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.

[2] "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.

[3] "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.

[4] Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.

[AA-5] "Western Stars Are Not Named: No Eastern Paper Gives Westerner Place on All-Americans". Atlanta Constitution. December 5, 1904.

[AA2-6] "Some All-American Football Elevens". The Pittsburgh Press. November 29, 1904.

[7] "In the Sporting World". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. December 3, 1904.

[Colo-8] "Football Critics Picking All-American Aggregations". Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette. December 15, 1904.

[AW-9] "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

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v t e 1904 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Foster Rockwell QB Vince Stevenson HB Willie Heston HB Daniel Hurley FB Walter Eckersall FB Andy Smith FB Henry Torney
Line	E Tom Shevlin E Fred Speik T James Cooney T James Hogan G Joseph Gilman G Ralph Kinney G Frank Piekarski C Arthur Tipton