1904 College Football All-America Team

The 1904 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.

All-Americans of 1904

Yale's Tom Shevlin was a four-time All-American

Ends

• Tom Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA; PI)
• Fred Speik, Chicago (CW-1)
• Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2; NYH; NYET)
• Garfield Weede, Penn (WC-2; NYS-1; PNA-1)
• Chester T. Neal, Yale (NYS-2; NYT; PI)
• Thomas W. Hammond, Army (NYS-2; PR)
• Alexander Garfield Gillespie, Army (WC-2)
• Claude Rothgeb, Illinois (WC-3; FL)
• Russ, Brown (CW-2)
• James Bush, Wisconsin (FL)

Tackles

• James Hogan, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL)
• James Cooney, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PI)
• Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2; FL)
• James R. Bloomer, Yale (CW-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1; FL [sub])
• Tom Thorp, Columbia (WC-2; CW-2; NYS-2)
• Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz, Penn (WC-3)
• Thomas B. Doe, Army (WC-3)

Guards

• Frank Piekarski, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
• Joseph Gilman, Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1)
• Ralph Kinney, Yale (WC-1; CW-2 NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
• Roswell Tripp, Yale (WC-2; CW-2 NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PI)
• Short, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2; PR)
• Walton W. Thorp, Minnesota (WC-3; FL)
• Charles A. Fairweather, Illinois (FL)

With halfback Willie Heston in the backfield, the Michigan Wolverines compiled a 43–0–1 record between 1901–04.

Centers

• Arthur Tipton, Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
• Clint Roraback, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; NYET; PNA-1; PI)
• Robert Grant Torrey, Penn (WC-3; CW-2)
• John M. Haselwood, Illinois (FL)

Quarterbacks

• Vince Stevenson, Penn (WC-1; NYS-2; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
• Foster Rockwell, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET)
• Sigmund Harris, Minnesota (WC-3)
• Dillwyn Parrish Starr, Harvard (CW-2)

Halfbacks

• Daniel Hurley, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI)
• Willie Heston, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYET; FL)
• Lydig Hoyt, Yale (WC-3; CW-2 [fb]; NYS-1; NYH; PR)
• Jack Owsley, Yale (NYS-2)
• Marshall Reynolds, Penn (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1)
• W. E. Metzenthin, Columbia (NYH)
• Jack Hubbard, Amherst (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2)
• James Vaughn, Dartmouth (WC-3)
• W. C. Leavenworth, Yale (PI)
• Frederick A. Prince, Army (CW-2)
• Walter L. Foulke, Princeton (FL [sub])

Fullbacks

• Walter Eckersall, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [e]; CW-1; FL [qb])
• Andy Smith, Penn (WC-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL [hb])
• Henry Torney, Army (CW-1 [hb]; NYT; NYET)
• Mills, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; PR)
• John R. Bender, Nebraska (WC-3)
• Mark Catlin, Chicago (FL)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1904

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[1][2]
• CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine^[3]

Other selectors

• NYS = New York Sun^[4]
• NYT = New York Tribune^[4][5]
• NYH = New York Herald^[4][5]
• PR = New York Press^[4]
• NYET = New York Evening Telegram^[6]
• PNA = Philadelphia North American^[7]
• PI = Philadelphia Inquirer^[7]
• FL = Fred Lowenthal, coach of the University of Illinois^[5]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[8]

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection

See also

• 1904 All-Southern college football team
• 1904 All-Western college football team

References

1. "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). 1904-12-28.
2. "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. 1904-11-24.
3. Caspar Whitney (Jan 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing.
4. "Western Stars Are Not Named: No Eastern Paper Gives Westerner Place on All-Americans". Atlanta Constitution. 1904-12-05.
5. "Some All-American Football Elevens". The Pittsburgh Press. 1904-11-29.
6. "In the Sporting World". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. 1904-12-03.
7. "Football Critics Picking All-American Aggregations". Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette. 1904-12-15.
8. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014.