1903 College Football All-America Team
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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 that season. The organizations that chose the teams included 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....

 selected by 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...

.

Key

  • WC = 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....

     as selected by 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...

  • CW = Caspar Whitney
    Caspar Whitney
    Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine....

    , for Outing magazine
  • FY = Fielding H. Yost, coach of the University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

     football team
  • CC = Charles Chadwick
    Charles Chadwick (athlete)
    Charles Chadwick was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.He was born in Brooklyn and died in Boston, Massachusetts....

    , described as "one of the best known coaches and football experts in this country"
  • SA = San Antonio Daily Light

  • Bold - Consensus All-American
  • 1 - First Team Selection
  • 2 - Second Team Selection
  • 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

  • Howard Henry, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; FY-2; CC-1)
  • Charles D. Rafferty
    Charles D. Rafferty
    Charles Donnelly Rafferty was an All-American football player and coach. He played at the end position for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1900 to 1903, was captain of Yale's 1903 football team, and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1903...

    , Yale (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1; CC-1; SA-1)
  • Davis, Princeton (WC-2)
  • Tom Shevlin
    Tom Shevlin
    Thomas Leonard Shevlin was an All-American football end and coach at Yale University and a millionaire lumberman. He is one of the few players in the history of college football to be selected as an All-American four consecutive years...

    , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2; FY-2; SA-1)
  • Curtis Redden
    Curtis Redden
    Curtis Gerald "Cap" Redden was an American football player. He was the starting left end for the University of Michigan's football team from 1901–1904. He played for Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams and was unanimously selected as an All-Western player in 1903. Redden died of pneumonia...

    , Michigan (WC-3)
  • Edward L. Rogers, Minnesota (WC-3)
  • Bowditch, Harvard (CW-2; FY-1)

Tackles

  • Daniel Knowlton, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; FY-2)
  • James Hogan
    James 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; FY-1; CC-1; SA-1)
  • Fred Schacht
    Fred Schacht
    Frederick E. Schacht, M.D., was an American college football coach, player, and medical doctor. He served as the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1904 to 1905...

    , Minnesota (WC-2; CW-1; FY-2)
  • Tom Thorp
    Tom Thorp
    -References:...

    , Columbia (WC-2; CC-1)
  • Leigh C. Turner
    Leigh C. Turner
    -External links:...

    , Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2)
  • Joseph Maddock
    Joe 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 (WC-3; CW-2; FY-1; SA-1)

Guards

  • John DeWitt
    John 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 (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1; CC-1; SA-1)
  • Andrew Marshall, Harvard (WC-1; CW-2; FY-2; CC-1)
  • James Bloomer, Yale (CW-1; FY-1; SA-1)
  • Napoleon W. Riley, Army (WC-2)
  • Joseph Gilman, Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-2)
  • Dillon, Princeton (FY-2)
  • Wilson Bertke, Wisconsin (WC-3)
  • Frank Piekarski
    Frank Piekarski
    -References:...

    , Penn (WC-3)

Centers

  • Henry Hooper, Dartmouth (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1; CC-1; SA-1)
  • Moses L. Strathern, Minnesota (WC-2)
  • Bruce, Columbia (WC-3)
  • Short, Princeton (CW-2; FY-2)

Quarterbacks

  • James Johnson
    James Johnson
    -Artists, authors, and musicians:*James B. Johnson , author of science fiction novels*James Johnson , English artist*James Johnson , late 18th-century Scottish musicologist*James P...

    , Carlisle (WC-1; CW-2)
  • Myron Witham
    Myron Witham
    Myron Ellis Witham was an American football player, coach of football and baseball, and mathematics professor. He served as the head football coach at Purdue University in 1906 and at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1920 to 1931, compiling a career college football record of...

    , Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1)
  • Foster Rockwell
    Foster Rockwell
    Foster 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 (FY-2; CC-1)
  • Sigmund Harris, Minnesota (WC-3; FY-1)
  • Brewster, Cornell (SA-1)

Halfbacks

  • Willie Heston
    Willie Heston
    William 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 (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1; SA-1)
  • Dana Kafer, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; FY-2; SA-1)
  • Harold Metcalf, Yale (CC-1)
  • Nichols, Harvard (WC-2; FY-2)
  • Herb Graver
    Herb Graver
    Herbert Spencer Graver, Sr. was an American football player and coach and businessman. He played at the end, halfback, fullback, and quarterback positions for Fielding H. Yost's renowned 1901, 1902 and 1903 "Point-a-Minute" football teams...

    , Michigan (WC-3)
  • Thomas F. Stankard, Holy Cross (WC-3)
  • Edward E. Farnsworth, Army (CW-2)
  • James Vaughn, Dartmouth (CW-2)

Fullbacks

  • Richard Smith
    Richard Smith
    Richard Smith may refer to:* Richard Smyth , also written Richard Smith, English Catholic scholar* Richard Smith , English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor...

    , Columbia (WC-1; FY-2)
  • Ledyard Mitchell
    Ledyard Mitchell
    William Ledyard Mitchell was an American automobile executive and All-American football player. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mitchell graduated from Yale University where he was selected as a back on the 1903 College Football All-America Team...

    , Yale (WC-2 [hb]; CW-1; FY-1 [hb]; CC-1 [hb])
  • Henry Schoellkopf
    Henry Schoellkopf
    Henry Schoellkopf was an American football player and coach. He was selected as an All-American fullback while attending Harvard Law School in 1903...

    , Harvard (FY-1; CC-1; SA-1)
  • R. Miller, Princeton (WC-2)
  • Louis "Red" Salmon
    Louis J. Salmon
    Louis J. "Red" Salmon is considered to be the first outstanding fullback for the University of Notre Dame football team. He was the first "Fighting Irish" player to win an All-American mention, and some sports historians argue that he served as the team's de facto coach during the 1902–1903...

    , Notre Dame (WC-3)
  • Frederick A. Prince, Army (CW-2)
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