1911 college football season

The 1911 NCAA football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, and a team had three downs within which to advance the ball ten yards. Although no team finished the season unbeaten and untied, the United States Naval Academy (Navy) finished with a record of 6 wins and 3 ties (6-0-3). Two of the ties were 0-0 games with the other major unbeaten teams, Penn State (8-0-1) and Princeton (8-0-2). Other teams that finished the season unbeaten were Minnesota (6-0-1) and Florida (5-0-1). The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best team of 1911 [2]

Rules

The rules for American football in 1911 included:[3]

A pass could not be caught beyond the goal line, nor more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage.[3]

Conference and program changes

School 1910 Conference 1911 Conference
Iowa Hawkeyes MVIAA & Western Big Nine
Mississippi College Choctaws Independent SIAA

September

September 23

September 30

October

October 7

October 14

October 21

October 28

November

November 4

November 11

November 18

November 25

November 29

November 30 (Thanksgiving)

January 1912

The last five-point American football touchdown was scored on January 1, 1912 in a game played in Havana, Cuba. Mississippi A&M College (now Mississippi State University) defeated the Club Atletico de Cuba, 12-0.[5]

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1911 Big 9 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Minnesota $ 3 – 0 – 1     6 – 0 – 1
Chicago 5 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 0
Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 1     5 – 1 – 1
Illinois 2 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Iowa 2 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Purdue 1 – 3 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Northwestern 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Indiana 0 – 3 – 1     3 – 3 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1911 Missouri Valley football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Iowa State + 2 – 0 – 1     6 – 1 – 1
Nebraska + 2 – 0 – 1     5 – 1 – 2
Kansas 1 – 1 – 1     4 – 2 – 2
Washington (MO) 0 – 0 – 2     4 – 2 – 2
Missouri 0 – 2 – 2     2 – 4 – 2
Drake 0 – 2 – 1     5 – 2 – 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
1911 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 5 – 0 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
Auburn 4 – 0 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Georgia 5 – 1 – 1     7 – 1 – 1
Georgia Tech 5 – 2 – 1     6 – 2 – 1
LSU 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Mississippi A&M 4 – 2 – 1     7 – 2 – 1
Alabama 2 – 2 – 2     5 – 2 – 2
Ole Miss 2 – 2 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Sewanee 2 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 1
Tulane 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 3 – 1
Clemson 3 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 0
Kentucky State 1 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
The Citadel 1 – 1 – 0     5 – 2 – 2
Mercer 2 – 5 – 0     4 – 5 – 1
Central 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 2 – 1
Tennessee 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 4 – 2
Mississippi College 0 – 4 – 0     1 – 5 – 0
Howard 0 – 6 – 0     1 – 6 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1911.htm
  2. ↑ 2001 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, p152
  3. 1 2 Danzig, Allison (1956). The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. pp. 70–71.
  4. ↑ "100 years ago: Football fans enjoy mechanized reproduction of KU-MU game". Lawrence Journal-World. November 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  5. ↑ Bacardi Bowl
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