1902 college football rankings

The 1902 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing and a top-sixteen rating in The Sun.

Caspar Whitney

Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1902, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-eight teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.[1][2]

Whitney is designated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a "major selector" of national championships, and his contemporary rankings in Outing for 1905–1907 are included in the NCAA college football records book.[3]

RankTeam[1]Record
1Yale11–0–1
2Harvard11–1
3West Point6–1–1

The Sun

In December 1902, New York City newspaper The Sun published a ranking of football teams.[4]

RankTeam[4]Record
1Yale11–0–1
2Princeton8–1
3Harvard11–1
4Army6–1–1
5Penn9–4
6Carlisle8–3
7Cornell8–3
8Bucknell
9Amherst
10Dartmouth6–2–1
11Navy2–7–1
12Lafayette8–3
13Brown5–4–1
14Syracuse6–2–1
15Columbia6–4–1
16Lehigh7–3–1

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