1907 College Football All-America Team
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The 1907 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Team
s that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly
selected by Walter Camp
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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...
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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 = Caspar Whitney
- FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan, for the North American Press Syndicate.
- Bold - Consensus All-American
- 1 - First Team Selection
- 2 - Second Team Selection
- 3 - Third Team Selection
All-Americans of 1907
Ends
- Bill DagueBill DagueWilliam Henry "Bill" Dague, Jr. was an American football player and coach. He played college football for Wabash College and the United States Naval Academy. He was the first consensus All-American football player from the Naval Academy...
, Navy (WC-1) - Clarence AlcottClarence AlcottClarence F. Alcott was an American football player, coach and investment banker. He was selected as an All-American end in both 1906 and 1907.Alcott attended Yale University where he played at the end position from 1905 to 1907...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-2) - Albert ExendineAlbert ExendineAlbert Andrew "Al" Exendine was an American football player, coach, and lawyer. He played college football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School where he was an All-American end...
, Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1) - Caspar WisterCaspar WisterCaspar "Cap" Wister was an American football player. He played at the end position for Princeton University. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1906. In a game against Villanova in 1906, Wister was on the receiving end of the first legal forward pass in Princeton history.-See also:*...
, Princeton (WC-3; CW-1) - Hunter ScarlettHunter ScarlettHunter Watt Scarlett was a notable ophthalmologist, and is best known for his college football career for the Penn Quakers from 1904 to 1908. During World War I, he worked in both French and American military hospitals...
, Penn (WC-2; FY-1) - McDonald, Harvard (WC-3; CW-2)
- Blake, Vanderbilt (FY-1)
Tackles
- Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)
- Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
- Horr, Syracuse (WC-2)
- O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2)
- Henry Weeks, Army (WC-3; CW-2)
- Lang, Dartmouth (WC-3)
- Walter RheinschildWalter RheinschildWalter Meadowfield Rheinschild , known also by the nicknames "Rheiny" and "Rhino", was an American football player and coach. He played for the University of Michigan in 1904, 1905, and 1907, and was once "rated as the highest salaried amateur athlete in the business." He later coached for...
, Michigan (FY-1)
Guards
- August ZieglerAugust ZieglerAugust Ziegler was an American football player. He played at the guard position for the University of Pennsylvania from 1903–1904 and 1906-1907. He was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in both 1906 and 1907...
, Penn (WC-1; CW-1) - William Erwin, Army (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
- Rich, Dartmouth (WC-2)
- Elmer ThompsonElmer ThompsonElmer Thompson was an American football player. He played for Cornell University from 1905 to 1907 and was selected as a first-team All-American in both 1906 and 1907.-Biography:...
, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1) - Francis BurrFrancis BurrFrancis Hardon Burr was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American end in 1906 and captain of the 1908 Harvard Crimson football team. After he died of typhoid fever in 1910, the Francis H. Burr Award was established in his honor.-Biography:Burr was raised in Brookline,...
, Harvard (CW-2) - Goebel, Yale (WC-3)
- Krider, Swathmore (WC-3)
Centers
- Germany SchulzGermany SchulzAdolph George "Germany" Schulz was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited with having invented the spiral snap and with developing the practice of standing behind the...
, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-2; FY-1) - Patrick Grant, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1)
- Phillips, Princeton (WC-3)
Quarterbacks
- Thomas A.D. JonesT. A. Dwight Jones-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-1) - Edward DillonEdward Dillon (American football)Edward A. "Eddie" Dillon was an American football player and judge. He was the quarterback of the Princeton Tigers football team for four years from 1905 to 1908 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906 and 1907...
, Princeton (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1) - Walter SteffenWalter SteffenWalter Steffen was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played college football as a quarterback at the University of Chicago from 1906 to 1908 and was a two-time All-American selection...
, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)
Halfbacks
- John Wendell, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
- Edwin Harlan, Princeton (WC-1; FY-1)
- Marks, Dartmouth (WC-2)
- "Tootsie" Douglas, Navy (CW-2)
- George CapronGeorge CapronGeorge H. Capron was an American football and baseball player. Capron played football and baseball for the University of Minnesota from 1907 to 1908...
, Minnesota (WC-3)
Fullbacks
- Jim McCormickJim McCormick (American football)Jim McCormick was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He was also head coach at Princeton in 1909....
, Princeton (WC-1; CW-2) - Peter Hauser, Carlisle (WC-3 [hb]; CW-1)
- Ted CoyTed CoyEdward Harris "Ted" Coy was an American football player. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected as the fullback on Walter Camp's All-Time All-America team. He also served as Yale's head football coach in 1910...
, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1 [hb]; FY-1) - Bill HollenbackBill Hollenback-References:* *, which tracks the Football history of the Union Club of Phoenixville-External links:...
, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2) - Archibald Douglas, Army (WC-3)