1900 college football rankings | |
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Season | 1900 |
Bowl season | 1900–01 bowl games |
End of season champions | Yale |
The 1900 college football season rankings included a ranking by New York City newspaper The Sun. [1] [2]
In December 1900, New York City newspaper The Sun published a top-five ranking of the big Eastern elevens. [1]
Rank | Team [1] | Record |
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1 | Yale | 12–0 |
2 | Harvard | 10–1 |
3 | Penn | 12–1 |
4 | Columbia | 7–3–1 |
5 | Lafayette | 9–2 |
The football season just closed, while it produced a definite championship eleven in Yale [...] If there could be an official rating now of the leading elevens it would be a case of Yale in first honors without a dispute, for the New Haven eleven beat all comers with comparative ease, as shown by the unusually large scores.
Polls and systems to determine the No. 1 team are not nearly so ancient as the mere naming of the "intercollegiate champion" by a Casper Whitney or a J. Parmly Paret.