1903 college football season

1903 college football season
Harvard–Dartmouth game
Total # of teams	71[1]
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Michigan Wolverines Princeton Tigers
College football seasons « 1902 1904 »

The 1903 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Princeton as having been selected national champions.^[2]

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1903 Big 9 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 1     14 – 0 – 1 Michigan + 3 – 0 – 1     11 – 0 – 1 Northwestern + 1 – 0 – 2     10 – 1 – 3 Chicago 4 – 1 – 1     12 – 2 – 1 Iowa 1 – 1 – 0     9 – 2 – 0 Indiana 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Illinois 1 – 5 – 0     8 – 6 – 0 Wisconsin 0 – 3 – 1     6 – 3 – 1 Purdue 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 2 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

1903 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Clemson + 4 – 0 – 1     4 – 1 – 1 Cumberland + 4 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 1 Sewanee + 5 – 1 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 Vanderbilt + 5 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 1 Mississippi A&M 2 – 0 – 2     3 – 0 – 2 Texas 1 – 0 – 1     5 – 1 – 2 Georgia 3 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 Mississippi 1 – 1 – 1     2 – 1 – 1 Alabama 3 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 Auburn 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 2 – 4 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Georgia Tech 1 – 4 – 0     2 – 5 – 0 Tulane 0 – 1 – 1     2 – 2 – 1 Texas A&M 0 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 1 Mercer 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Davidson 0 – 1 – 0     1 – 4 – 0 Nashville 0 – 2 – 0     0 – 2 – 0 LSU 0 – 4 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 0 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Jimmy Johnson	5'7"	138	Sr.	Edgerton, Wisconsin	Carlisle
QB	Myron E. Witham			Sr.	Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts	Dartmouth
HB	Willie Heston	5'8"	190	Jr.	Grant's Pass, Oregon	Michigan
HB	Dana Kafer			Sr.	Lawrenceville, New Jersey	Princeton
FB	Richard Shore Smith			Sr.		Columbia
FB	Ledyard Mitchell			Sr.		Yale
E	Howard Henry			Sr.	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Princeton
T	Daniel Knowlton			So.		Harvard
T	James Hogan	5'10"	210	Jr.	County Tipperary, Ireland	Yale
G	John DeWitt	6'1"	198	Sr.	Phillipsburg, New Jersey	Princeton
G	Andrew Marshall			Sr.	Phillipsburg, New Jersey	Harvard
C	Henry Hooper			Sr.	New Hampshire	Dartmouth
G	James Bloomer			Jr.	Cincinnati, Ohio	Yale
T	Fred Schacht			Sr.	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Minnesota
E	Charles D. Rafferty			Sr.	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Yale

Statistical leaders

• Players scoring most points: Thomas S. Hammond, Michigan, 163

References

1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1903.htm
2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.