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Claimed National Champions
Princeton (6-0) National Championship Foundation, Billingsley Report, Parke H. Davis
Bold indicates main national championship selector recognized by NCAA Championship List
\The Billingsley Report initially awarded Yale the national championship for this year, however, they have changed their formula three times since. The Billingsley Report currently awards the championship to Princeton.)
- The Johns Hopkins University Press and The Yale News are established
- The world’s First Telephone Exchange begins operations in New Haven, CT
- Mississippi St is established
- Joseph Stalin, Boxer Jack Johnson, and CFB Hall of Famers Gil Dobie, Truxton Hare, Willie Heston, and Andrew Kerr are born
- The Ball: Egg-shaped, rubber covered Rugby ball.
- The field is 140 yds. by 70 yds., uprights 18 1/2’ apart, crossbar 10’ high uprights
- Goals are scored when a player kicks a ball through the uprights. They can be scored during play or after a touchdown is scored. A goal can also be scored if a team scores four touchdowns.
- *Each team consists of 15 players
- Holding and carrying the ball is finally permitted
- The game’s regulation is separated into two halves, both 45 minutes. If the game is tied at the end of regulation, the next scored point wins the game.
Italics denote rule change from previous season.
\Yale played by all of the IFA rules, except for the player rule. Yale wanted to play the game with 11 players on the field.)
Rule Changes
Yale’s still playing with 11 players, other than that, no other rule changes.
The Teams
Of the 10 teams available in the matchup tool, only five qualified and are listed by their seeding in the bracket.
- Princeton (6-0) Coach - MAYBE Woodrow Wilson
- Yale (4-1) Coach - None
- Stevens (1-1-2) Coach - None
- Columbia (0-0-2) Coach - None
Season Breakdown by Zach Bigalke
Harvard has its first losing season, Yale and Princeton both allow only one point all season, and Princeton becomes the lone team with a perfect season. The most important thing that happened this year is that home crowds are finally costing money. Parke H. Davis alleges that the Princeton-Yale game had somewhere around 4,000 attendees that game, and the cost of the field rental in Hoboken, NJ at the time was $300. He also alleges at the time, it caused tons of controversy within the press at the time with most of the controversy being called a “gross extravagance and a feature of football not to be repeated if the game was to live.” Well, I think they’re just slightly off on their prediction.
Anyway, you saw who the coach was for this team right? Yeah, that Woodrow Wilson, the future president. Well… Kind of the truth is weird. If you look at the official list of Princeton head coaches, There is exactly one source that this claim comes from and it’s the Spalding Official College Guide from 1934. However, according to Woodrow Wilson’s biography from A. Scott Berg (which is a book I can’t access so I am going on Wikipedia and what I can find online), he was only the secretary for the school’s football association. However, that same biographer does claim that he would go and coach Wesleyan’s team, but once again, the Wesleyan Cardinals website doesn’t mention this at all. He isn’t mentioned at all in any official capacity by any of the teams he’s associated with.
The main source of this info comes from the blog/website called Football Archeology. Woodrow Wilson transferred to Princeton in 1877 around the time their game with Harvard took place. When the next season came around he was elected to the school’s student-run “football board” where he helped coach the team. Why? Well despite agreeing to the rules two years ago, he was the “only one at Princeton that understood rugby.” THE ONLY ONE! The same thing more or less happened at Wesleyan when joined the faculty there in 1888. He would be one of three presidents who would coach at the college level and the only one who would be a head coach.
Player of Interest
Ballard, Dodge, and McNair are all still with the Princeton team during this time, with Ballard still Captain of the team. Yale finally has their star back, Walter Camp as their captain. They also have a few new students to join the team as well during this time. Walter. I Badger is a man born in Boston and died in Cambridge, but somehow is with Yale as one of its first QBs as well as the baseball captain. He would later become a prominent Boston lawyer. Louis K. Hull is a rusher/forward for the Bulldogs and is also captain of the rowing team. He would become a lawyer and businessman, and when he died in 1931, he was accredited with having more earned letters than any other Yale student.
Playoffs
Final Four
No. 4 Columbia @ No. 1 Princeton - Columbia is trying to score, and trying to win their first game of the season in the playoff. By the grace that they tied each of their games that they’re here, but getting into this tournament on a technicality is showing how much they are as pretenders. Princeton scores two goals from the field, and two more from three touchdowns. Princeton wins 4-0 and goes back to the Championship game for the first time in three years!
No. 3. Stevens @ No. 2 Yale - Yale goes on ahead and steamrolls Stevens much like Princeton did to Columbia. It is Even less of a contest than the other Final Four game. Yale went ahead and scored all four points within 30 minutes of the first half, and then just hogged the ball until time ran out. No contest. Yale wins 4-0 to face Princeton in the Championship!
The Championship Game at the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, NY
The last time the Championship game was at these grounds, Princeton and Yale had played each other with Princeton coming on top. The last time these two teams had met each other in the big game was four years ago in the Capitoline Grounds. But the game they are playing today is far from the kicking game they played here last. However, the last game was a defensive battle that led to a Princeton 1-0 win. Walter Camp fields the kickoff and runs upfield. A few tackles, and, a pitch later, Yale scores the first touchdown and makes the kick. It’s evident the game won’t be the same defensive battle from the first game. Princeton immediately responds and when the end of regulation ends, the game is tied at 3 with Yale scoring four touchdowns and converting two kicks, and Princeton scoring three touchdowns and three kicks. All Princeton needs is one touchdown to win. Princeton’s McNair has been covered almost all game and hasn’t been able to make any progress when the ball is in his hands. However, he manages to force a Walter Camp fumble and picks up the ball. He breaks a tackle from Yale’s halfbacks, and fullbacks, and is left with a wide open field and scores Princeton’s fourth TD of the game, giving them the final point to win 4-3. Princeton wins its fifth Championship, their first in five seasons!
Championship
Princeton (6-0) Won against Yale 4-3
Runner-Up:
Yale (4-1) Lost vs Princeton 4-3
Final Four Finishes:
Columbia (0-0-2) Lost @ Princeton 4-0
Stevens (1-1-2) Lost @ Yale 4-0
Other Notes:
I am well aware, that I said the original premise of this is project was to see what a 24-team playoff would look like, an…
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