1907 College Football All-America Team

The 1907 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.

Key[]

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[1]
CW = Caspar Whitney^[2]^[3]
FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan, for the North American Press Syndicate.^[4]
Bold - Consensus All-American^[5]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection

All-Americans of 1907[]

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Germany Schulz is credited with inventing the spiral snap and developing the tactic of standing behind the line on defense, the origin of the linebacker position

Ends[]

Bill Dague, Navy (WC-1)
Clarence Alcott, Yale (WC-1; CW-2)
Albert Exendine, Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1)
Caspar Wister, Princeton (WC-3; CW-1)
Hunter Scarlett, Penn (WC-2; FY-1)
McDonald, Harvard (WC-3; CW-2)
Blake, Vanderbilt (FY-1)

Tackles[]

Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)
Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
Horr, Syracuse (WC-2)
O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2)
Henry Weeks, Army (WC-3; CW-2)
Lang, Dartmouth (WC-3)
Walter Rheinschild, Michigan (FY-1)

Guards[]

August Ziegler, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)
William Erwin, Army (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
Rich, Dartmouth (WC-2)
Elmer Thompson, Cornell (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1)
Francis Burr, Harvard (CW-2)
Goebel, Yale (WC-3)
Krider, Swathmore (WC-3)

Centers[]

Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-2; FY-1)
Patrick Grant, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1)
Phillips, Princeton (WC-3)

Quarterbacks[]

Thomas A.D. Jones, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)
Edward Dillon, Princeton (WC-2; CW-2; FY-1)
Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)

Halfbacks[]

John Wendell, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; FY-1)
Edwin Harlan, Princeton (WC-1; FY-1)
Marks, Dartmouth (WC-2)
"Tootsie" Douglas,^[6] Navy (CW-2)
George Capron, Minnesota (WC-3)

Fullbacks[]

Jim McCormick, Princeton (WC-1; CW-2)
Peter Hauser, Carlisle (WC-3 [hb]; CW-1)
Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-1 [hb]; FY-1)
Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2)
Archibald Douglas, Army (WC-3)

Notes[]

↑ "Camp Selects His All American Team". Trenton Evening Times. 1903-12-27.
↑ "Whitney Picks Out the Champ Eleven: All-American Eleven Taken from the East". La Crosse Tribune. 1907-12-26.
↑ "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 1907-12-26.
↑ "COACH YOST AND HIS TEAM". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 1907-12-02. ("Of all the football men in America, none has attained greater prominence than Fielding H. Yost, who has coached the University of Michigan for six years. Yost's football vision is broad. His football judgment is superior. His football pre-eminence is generally accepted. It is thus a matter of considerable football moment when Mr. Yost breaks his previous precedence and names an all-American football team. This he has done for the North American Press Syndicate.")
↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
↑ Referred to as "Tootsie" Douglass by the Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 6, 1907, article titled "All-Star Place for Douglass: Tennessee Boy Picked as One of Country's Greatest Backs"

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[1] "Camp Selects His All American Team". Trenton Evening Times. 1903-12-27.

[2] "Whitney Picks Out the Champ Eleven: All-American Eleven Taken from the East". La Crosse Tribune. 1907-12-26.

[3] "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 1907-12-26.

[4] "COACH YOST AND HIS TEAM". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 1907-12-02. ("Of all the football men in America, none has attained greater prominence than Fielding H. Yost, who has coached the University of Michigan for six years. Yost's football vision is broad. His football judgment is superior. His football pre-eminence is generally accepted. It is thus a matter of considerable football moment when Mr. Yost breaks his previous precedence and names an all-American football team. This he has done for the North American Press Syndicate.")

[5] Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners

[6] Referred to as "Tootsie" Douglass by the Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 6, 1907, article titled "All-Star Place for Douglass: Tennessee Boy Picked as One of Country's Greatest Backs"

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