1902 College Football All-America Team
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The 1902 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Team
s for the 1902 college football season
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
for Collier's Weekly
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...
s for the 1902 college football season
1902 college football season
The 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Yale as national champions....
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
for Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
Key
- WC = Collier's WeeklyCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
as selected by Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football... - CW = Casper Whitney for Outing magazine
- NA = Newark Advocate
- PS = The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- Thomas Shevlin, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)
- Edward Bowditch, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NA-1)
- Davis, Princeton (CW-2; NA-1; PS-1)
- Joseph A. McAndrew, Army (PS-1)
- Brown, Lafayette (CW-2)
Tackles
- Ralph Kinney, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)
- James HoganJames Hogan (American football)James J. Hogan was an Irish American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1901 to 1904.-References:...
, Yale (WC-1; NA-1; PS-1) - Paul BunkerPaul BunkerPaul Delmont Bunker was an American football player and soldier. Bunker attended the U.S. Military Academy and became the first football player at West Point to be selected as a first-team All-American by Walter Camp. Bunker was chosen as an All-American at the tackle position in 1901 and...
, Army (WC-1; CW-1; PS-1) - Joseph MaddockJoe Maddock (coach)Joseph Herbert Maddock was a college football player and coach. He was an All-Western tackle for the University of Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" football teams from 1902–1903. He also set a Western Conference record in the hammer throw...
, Michigan (NA-1) - Edward Farnsworth, Army (CW-2)
- Robert TorreyRobert TorreyRobert Grant Torrey was an American football player and coach. He played center and was selected as the captain of the University of Pennsylvania's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1905.-Biography:Torrey was from Montclair, New Jersey...
, Penn (CW-2)
Guards
- Edward Glass, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NA-1; PS-1)
- John DeWittJohn DeWitt (athlete)John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw.He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the hammer throw where he won the silver medal. He would also be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in...
, Princeton (WC-1; CW-2; NA-1; PS-1) - William WarnerBill WarnerWilliam J. "Bill" Warner was an American football player and coach. Warner graduated from Cornell University in 1903 and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society...
, Cornell (CW-1) - Charles Belknap, Jr., Navy (CW-2)
Centers
- Henry Holt, Yale (WC-1; CW-2; NA-1; PS-1)
- Robert BoyersRobert Boyers-External links:...
, Army (CW-1)
Quarterbacks
- Foster RockwellFoster RockwellFoster Haven Rockwell was an All-American football player and hotelier. A native of Vermont, Rockwell played football at Yale University and was selected as the quarterback on the 1902 College Football All-America Team and was a member of Skull and Bones...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; PS-1) - Boss Weeks, Michigan (CW-2; NA-1)
Halfbacks
- George B. ChadwickGeorge B. ChadwickGeorge Brewster Chadwick was an All-American football player and coach. He played college football for Yale University from 1899 to 1902 and was the head coach of the 1903 Yale football team...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NA-1) - Thomas BarryThomas A. BarryThomas Austin Barry was an American college football coach and player, lawyer, and industrial adviser. He served as the head coach at Tulane University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Denver...
, Brown (CW-1) - Willie HestonWillie HestonWilliam Martin "Willie" Heston was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake University in 1905 and North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now North...
, Michigan (NA-1) - Harold WeekesHarold WeekesHarold Weekes was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954....
, Columbia (CW-2; PS-1) - Harold Metcalf, Yale (CW-2; PS-1)
Fullbacks
- Thomas GraydonThomas GraydonThomas Hetherington "Blondy" Graydon was an All-American football player. While attending Harvard, he was selected as fullback on the All-American teams of 1901 and 1902.-Early years:...
, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NA-1) - Morgan H. Bowman, Yale (CW-2; PS-1)