1911 college football season

The 1911 NCAA football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, and a team had three downs within which to advance the ball ten yards. Although no team finished the season unbeaten and untied, the United States Naval Academy (Navy) finished with a record of 6 wins and 3 ties (6-0-3). Two of the ties were 0-0 games with the other major unbeaten teams, Penn State (8-0-1) and Princeton (8-0-2). Other teams that finished the season unbeaten were Minnesota (6-0-1) and Florida (5-0-1). The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best team of 1911 [2]

Rules

The rules for American football in 1911 included:[3]

A pass could not be caught beyond the goal line, nor more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage.[3]

Conference and program changes

School 1910 Conference 1911 Conference
Iowa Hawkeyes MVIAA & Western Big Nine
Mississippi College Choctaws Independent SIAA
Southern California Methodists Independent Dropped Program

September

September 23

September 30

October

October 7

October 14

October 21

October 28

November

November 4

November 11

November 18

November 25

November 29

November 30 (Thanksgiving)

January 1912

The last five-point American football touchdown was scored on January 1, 1912, in a game played in Havana, Cuba. Mississippi A&M College (now Mississippi State University) defeated the Club Atletico de Cuba, 12-0.[5]

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1911 Big 9 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Minnesota $ 3 – 0 – 1     6 – 0 – 1
Chicago 5 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 0
Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 1     5 – 1 – 1
Illinois 2 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Iowa 2 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Purdue 1 – 3 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Northwestern 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Indiana 0 – 3 – 1     3 – 3 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1911 college football independents records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Washington   –       7 – 0 – 0
Oregon Agricultural   –       5 – 2 – 0
Oregon   –       3 – 2 – 0
Montana   –       2 – 1 – 0
Washington State   –       3 – 3 – 0
1911 Missouri Valley football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Iowa State + 2 – 0 – 1     6 – 1 – 1
Nebraska + 2 – 0 – 1     5 – 1 – 2
Kansas 1 – 1 – 1     4 – 2 – 2
Washington (MO) 0 – 0 – 2     4 – 2 – 2
Missouri 0 – 2 – 2     2 – 4 – 2
Drake 0 – 2 – 1     5 – 2 – 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
1911 RMFAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Colorado $ 4 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 0
Utah 3 – 1 – 1     5 – 1 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1911 SAIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
VPI $ 1 – 0 – 1     6 – 1 – 2
Virginia 1 – 1 – 0     8 – 2 – 0
North Carolina A&M 1 – 1 – 0     5 – 3 – 0
North Carolina 1 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 1
Georgetown 0 – 1 – 0     7 – 2 – 1
Washington and Lee 0 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 2
Maryland 0 – 0 – 0     4 – 4 – 2
  • $ – Conference champion
1911 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 5 – 0 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
Auburn 4 – 0 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Georgia 5 – 1 – 1     7 – 1 – 1
Georgia Tech 5 – 2 – 1     6 – 2 – 1
LSU 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Mississippi A&M 4 – 2 – 1     7 – 2 – 1
Alabama 2 – 2 – 2     5 – 2 – 2
Ole Miss 2 – 2 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Sewanee 2 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 1
Tulane 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 3 – 1
Clemson 3 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 0
Kentucky State 1 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
The Citadel 1 – 1 – 0     5 – 2 – 2
Mercer 2 – 5 – 0     4 – 5 – 1
Central 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 2 – 1
Tennessee 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 4 – 2
Mississippi College 0 – 4 – 0     1 – 5 – 0
Howard 0 – 6 – 0     1 – 6 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Olivet
Adrian		 4–0–0
3–0–0
Ohio Athletic Conference Oberlin 4–0–1

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Art Howe 5'10" 153 Sr. South Orange, New Jersey Yale
QB Earl Sprackling 5'9" 150 Sr. Cleveland, Ohio Brown
HB Percy Wendell Jr. Roxbury, Massachusetts Harvard
HB Jim Thorpe 6'1" 180 Jr. Shawnee, Oklahoma Carlisle
FB John Dalton 5'11" 174 Sr. St. Louis, Missouri Penn
E Sanford White Sr. Fall River, Massachusetts Princeton
T Ed Hart 5'11" 208 Sr. Exeter, New Hampshire Princeton
G Bob Fisher Sr. Boston, Massachusetts Harvard
C Hank Ketcham 6'0" 175 So. Englewood, New Jersey Yale
G Joseph Duff Sr. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Princeton
T Leland Devore 6'4" 225 Jr. Wheeling, West Virginia Army
E Doug Bomeisler 5'11" 190 Jr. Brooklyn, New York Yale

Statistical leaders

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1911.htm
  2. ↑ 2001 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, p152
  3. 1 2 Danzig, Allison (1956). The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. pp. 70–71.
  4. ↑ "100 years ago: Football fans enjoy mechanized reproduction of KU-MU game". Lawrence Journal-World. November 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  5. ↑ Bacardi Bowl
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