| 1903 college football rankings | |
|---|---|
| Season | 1903 |
| Bowl season | 1903–04 bowl games |
| End of season champions | Princeton |
The 1903 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing.
Caspar Whitney
Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1903, Caspar Whitney ranked the top thirty-one teams in the country at the conclusion of the season. [1] [2]
Whitney is designated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a "major selector" of national championships, and his contemporary rankings in Outing for 1905–1907 are included in the NCAA college football records book. [3]
| Rank | Team [1] | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princeton | 11–0 |
| 2 | Dartmouth | 9–1 |
| 3 | Yale | 11–1 |
References
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b Whitney, Caspar (January 1904). Whitney, Caspar (ed.).
"The Sportsman's View-Point: Football Ranking [1903]".
Outing. Vol. XLV, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 473–478. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
No college is eligible for consideration here, whose disregard of wholesome sport is patent and persistent. This ranking is not based only on comparative scores, but on style of play, conditions under which games were contested, relative importance of games on the schedule—especially with regard to each teams's "big" game, for which it was particularly trained—as well as the season's all-round record of the elevens under discussion. My particular interest in the study is its object lesson on comparative football development throughout the country. There is no possible line of comparison on the Pacific Coast college teams, but from what I have seen of their play, and on the scores of this season, California and Stanford would fall in somewhere near the first raters of the South, and Washington and Missouri.
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Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967).
Laguerre, André (ed.).
"This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open".
Sports Illustrated. Vol. 27, no. 11. Chicago. pp. 28–34. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
Polls and systems to determine the No. 1 team are not nearly so ancient as the mere naming of the "intercollegiate champion" by a Casper Whitney or a J. Parmly Paret.
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^ "National Champion Major Selections (1896 to Present)".
2022 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2022. p. 114. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
Caspar Whitney (1903-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.