1901 Western Conference football season
1901 Western Conference football season | |
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Sport | Football |
Number of teams | 9 |
Co-champions | Michigan, Wisconsin |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michigan + | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 11 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wisconsin + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illinois | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiana | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purdue | 0 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chicago | 0 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 6 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iowa | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![A sepia-tone picture of around thirty young white men, all in American football uniforms from the beginning of the 1900s. They are taking a team picture, staged in rows and all facing directly into the camera. Some are sitting cross-legged.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/1901_Purdue_football_team.jpg/220px-1901_Purdue_football_team.jpg)
The 1901 Western Conference football season was the sixth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1901 college football season.
In its first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game, the first college bowl game ever played. Three of the five official selectors, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation, recognize the 1901 Michigan team as the national champion.
Wisconsin, under head coach Philip King, tied with Michigan for the conference championship with a 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents 317 to 5.
Season overview
Results and team statistics
Conf. Rank | Team | Head coach | Overall record | Conf. record | PPG | PAG |
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1 (tie) | Michigan | Fielding H. Yost | 11–0 | 4–0 | 50.0 | 0.0 |
1 (tie) | Wisconsin | Philip King | 9–0 | 2–0 | 35.2 | 0.6 |
3 | Minnesota | Henry L. Williams | 9-1-1 | 3-1 | 16.6 | 1.6 |
4 | Illinois | Justa Lindgren | 8–2 | 4–2 | 24.3 | 3.9 |
5 | Northwestern | Charles Hollister | 8–2–1 | 3–2 | 14.6 | 7.0 |
6 | Indiana | James H. Horne | 6–3 | 1–2 | 23.8 | 9.7 |
7 | Purdue | D. M. Balliet | 4–4–1 | 0–3–1 | 15.3 | 7.3 |
8 | Chicago | Amos A. Stagg | 8–6–2 | 0–4–1 | 10.9 | 8.2 |
9 | Iowa | Alden Knipe | 6–3 | 0–3 | 9.4 | 12.8 |
Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game[1]
PAG = Average of points allowed per game[1]
Regular season
During the 1901 season, Western Conference teams played 18 games against each other, as follows:
October 12
October 19
October 26
- Indiana defeated Purdue, 11–6[6]
- Minnesota defeated Iowa, 16–0[7]
- Northwestern defeated Illinois, 17–11[8]
November 2
- Illinois defeated Indiana, 18–0[9]
November 9
November 16
- Illinois defeated Purdue, 28–6[12]
- Michigan defeated Chicago, 22–0[13]
- Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 18–0[14]
November 23
- Minnesota defeated Northwestern, 16–0[15]
November 28 (Thanksgiving)
- Michigan defeated Iowa, 50–0[16]
- Minnesota defeated Illinois, 16–0[17]
- Northwestern defeated Purdue, 10–5[18]
- Wisconsin defeated Chicago, 35–0[19]
Bowl games
Michigan defeated Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl.
Awards and honors
All-Western players
The following Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the 1901 All-Western college football team by at least two of the following selectors: Chicago American (CA), Chicago Daily News (CDN), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), and Walter Camp (WC):
- William Juneau, end, Wisconsin (CA, CDN, CRH, CT, WC)
- Neil Snow, end/fullback, Michigan (CA, CDN, CRH, WC)
- Bruce Shorts, tackle, Michigan (CA, CRH, CT, WC)
- Arthur Hale Curtis, tackle, Wisconsin (CA, CDN, CRH, CT)
- John G. Flynn, guard, Minnesota (CA, CRH, WC)
- Jake Stahl, guard, Illinois (CA, CDN, CRH, CT)
- Fred Lowenthal, center, Illinois (CA, CT, WC)
- Leroy Albert Page, Jr., center, Minnesota (CDN, CRH)
- Boss Weeks, quarterback, Michigan (CA, CDN, CRH, WC)
- Willie Heston, halfback, Michigan (CA, CRH, WC)
- Al Larson, halfback, Wisconsin (CA, CDN, CRH, CT, WC)
- Everett Sweeley, fullback/halfback, Michigan (CDN, CT)
- G. O. Dietz, fullback/guard, Northwestern (CDN, WC)
- Earl Driver, fullback, Wisconsin (CA, CRH)
All-Americans
Only one Western Conference player was selected as a first-team player on the 1901 College Football All-America Team:
- Neil Snow, end, Michigan, selected by Caspar Whitneypublished in Outing magazine[20]
References
- ^ a b "1901 Western Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
- ^ "Maroons Are Tied By Purdue's Eleven". The Inter Ocean. October 13, 1901. p. 17.
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- ^ "Michigan Stops Stagg's Tricks: Defeated Chicago by 22-0 Score". Detroit Free Press. November 17, 1901. p. 1.
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- ^ Caspar Whitney (1902). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2016.