1902 college football season

1902 college football season
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Total # of teams	72
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Michigan Wolverines Yale Bulldogs
College football seasons « 1901 1903 »

The 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Yale as having been selected national champions.

Conference and program changes

• The Ohio Athletic Conference, now a Division III conference, began official football play in 1902.

School	1901 Conference	1902 Conference
Centre College merged with Central University Colonels	Independent	SIAA
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	Independent	SIAA

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1902 Big 9 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Michigan $ 5 – 0 – 0     11 – 0 – 0 Chicago 5 – 1 – 0     11 – 1 – 0 Minnesota 3 – 1 – 0     9 – 2 – 1 Illinois 4 – 2 – 0     10 – 2 – 1 Purdue 2 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 1 Wisconsin 1 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 Iowa 0 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0 Northwestern 0 – 4 – 0     6 – 6 – 0 Indiana 0 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 1 $ – Conference champion

1902 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Clemson + 6 – 0 – 0     6 – 1 – 0 Vanderbilt + 6 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0 LSU 4 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 0 Texas 4 – 1 – 0     6 – 3 – 1 Sewanee 4 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 0 Georgia 4 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1 Tennessee 3 – 2 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Ole Miss 3 – 3 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Auburn 2 – 4 – 1     2 – 4 – 1 Alabama 2 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Furman 1 – 2 – 1     4 – 3 – 4 Nashville 1 – 2 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 Davidson 1 – 3 – 0     3 – 5 – 1 Cumberland 1 – 3 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 1 – 0     4 – 6 – 1 Tulane 0 – 4 – 2     1 – 4 – 2 Mississippi A&M 0 – 4 – 1     1 – 4 – 1 Georgia Tech 0 – 5 – 2     0 – 6 – 2 + – Conference co-champions

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1902 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Foster Rockwell			So.	Vermont	Yale
HB	George B. Chadwick			Sr.	Brooklyn, New York	Yale
HB	Thomas A. Barry			Sr.	Brockton, Massachusetts	Brown
FB	Blondy Graydon			Sr.	Cincinnati, Ohio	Harvard
E	Tom Shevlin	5'10"	195	Fr.	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Yale
T	Ralph Kinney			Jr.		Yale
T	James Hogan	5'10"	210	So.	County Tipperary, Ireland	Yale
G	Edgar Glass			Sr.	Syracuse, New York	Yale
G	John DeWitt	6'1"	198	Jr.	Phillipsburg, New Jersey	Princeton
C	Henry Holt			Sr.	Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York	Yale
C	Robert Boyers			Sr.	Bellaire, Ohio	Army
G	Bill Warner	6'4"	210	Sr.	Springville, New York	Cornell
T	Paul Bunker	5'11"	186	Sr.	Alpena, Michigan	Army
E	Edward Bowditch			Jr.	Albany, New York	Harvard

Statistical leaders

• Player scoring most points: Albert E. Herrnstein, Michigan, 130