P	W	L	T	Pct
Ivy League
Pennsylvania	6	6	0	0	1.000
Dartmouth	7	6	0	1	1.000
Yale	7	6	1	0	.857
Cornell	6	4	2	0	.667
Princeton	6	4	2	0	.667
Harvard	6	3	2	1	.600
Columbia	7	3	4	0	.429
Brown	6	2	4	0	.333
Ohio Colleges
Cincinnati	3	3	0	0	1.000
Ohio Northern	3	3	0	0	1.000
Case	7	6	1	0	.857
Denison	6	4	1	1	.800
Reserve	7	4	1	2	.800
Wittenberg	4	3	1	0	.750
Oberlin Business College	7	4	2	1	.667
Heidelberg	3	2	1	0	.667
Ohio Wesleyan	6	3	3	0	.500
Ohio State	7	3	4	0	.429
Ohio Medics	4	1	2	1	.333
Mt. Union	4	1	3	0	.250
Kenyon	6	1	4	1	.200
Wooster	6	1	5	0	.167
Otterbein	2	0	2	0	.000
Eastern Colleges
Annapolis	6	5	0	1	1.000
Georgetown	6	5	1	0	.833
Amherst	5	4	1	0	.800
Washington & Jefferson	5	2	2	1	.500
Wesleyan	4	2	2	0	.500
Syracuse	5	2	3	0	.400
Penn State	3	1	2	0	.333
Williams	3	1	2	0	.333
Dickinson	3	0	2	1	.000
Bucknell	3	0	3	0	.000
Trinity	3	0	3	0	.000
Virginia	3	0	3	0	.000
Holy Cross	4	0	4	0	.000
Lehigh	4	0	4	0	.000
Western Colleges
Minnesota	7	7	0	0	1.000
Michigan	6	6	0	0	1.000
Illinois	7	5	1	1	.833
Chicago	6	4	1	1	.800
Northwestern	7	5	2	0	.714
Wisconsin	6	4	2	0	.667
Knox	3	2	1	0	.667
Rose Poly	3	2	1	0	.667
Purdue	5	3	2	0	.600
Iowa	7	4	3	0	.571
Nebraska	6	3	3	0	.5000
De Pauw	4	2	2	0	.500
Notre Dame	4	2	2	0	.500
Indiana	5	2	3	0	.400
Ames	3	1	2	0	.333
Beloit	4	1	3	0	.250
Drake	4	1	3	0	.250
Washington	6	1	5	0	.167
Indian Colleges
Carlisle Indians	7	5	2	0	.714
Haskell Indians	4	3	1	0	.750
MIlitary Academies
West Point (Army)	8	6	2	0	.750
Navy	2	0	2	0	.000
Ivy League Freshmen
Princeton Freshmen	1	1	0	0	1.000
Yale Freshemen	3	1	1	1	.500
Harvard Freshmen	1	0	1	0	.000
Pacific & Mountain West Colleges
Colorado	1	1	0	0	1.000
Stanford	2	2	0	0	1.000
Kansas	1	1	0	0	1.000
Utah	1	1	0	0	1.000
California	1	0	1	0	.000
Denver University	1	0	1	0	.000
Oregon	1	0	1	0	.000
Southern Colleges
Mississippi	1	1	0	0	1.000
Vanderbilt	1	1	0	0	1.000
Kentucky	2	1	1	0	.500
Texas	2	1	1	0	.500
West Virginia	2	1	1	0	.500
Nashville	1	0	1	0	.000
North Carolina	1	0	1	0	.000
Rutgers	1	0	1	0	.000
Virginia Tech	1	0	1	0	.000
Missouri	2	0	2	0	.000
Minor Eastern Colleges
Bowdoin	1	1	0	0	1.000
Colgate	1	1	0	0	1.000
Hiram	1	1	0	0	1.000
Ohio Wesleyan 2nds	1	1	0	0	1.000
Swarthmore	1	1	0	0	1.000
Union	1	1	0	0	1.000
Philips Exeter	2	1	1	0	.500
Williston	1	0	0	1	.500
Amherst Aggies	1	0	1	0	.000
Albright	1	0	1	0	.000
Andover	1	0	1	0	.000
Antioch	1	0	1	0	.000
Ashland	1	0	1	0	.000
Bates	2	0	2	0	.000
Colby	1	0	1	0	.000
Columbus Mutes	1	0	1	0	.000
Franklin and Marshall	1	0	1	0	.000
Lafayette	1	0	1	0	.000
Geneva	1	0	1	0	.000
Hamilton	1	0	1	0	.000
Marietta	1	0	1	0	.000
Miami (Ohio)	1	0	1	0	.000
Muskingum	1	0	1	0	.000
New York	1	0	1	0	.000
Niagara	1	0	1	0	.000
Seto	1	0	1	0	.000
Simpson	1	0	1	0	.000
Stevens	1	0	1	0	.000
Ursinus	1	0	1	0	.000
Vermont	1	0	1	0	.000
Villanova	1	0	1	0	.000
Virginia Military	1	0	1	0	.000
Washington & Lee	1	0	1	0	.000
Allegheny	2	0	2	0	.000
Minor Western Colleges
Armour	1	0	1	0	.000
Bellevue	1	0	1	0	.000
Butler	1	0	1	0	.000
Culver	1	1	0	0	1.000
Deactur	1	0	1	0	.000
Wabash	2	1	1	0	.500
American Medics	1	0	1	0	.000
Coe	1	0	1	0	.000
Earlham	2	0	2	0	.000
Fort Wayne Medical	1	0	1	0	.000
Grinnell	1	0	1	0	.000
Indiana Medical	1	0	1	0	.000
Indiana Normal	1	0	1	0	.000
Kalamazoo	1	0	1	0	.000
Lake Forest	1	0	1	0	.000
Lawrence	1	0	1	0	.000
Lombard	1	0	1	0	.000
Marquette	1	0	1	0	.000
Normal	1	0	1	0	.000
North Dakota	1	0	1	0	.000
Oshkosh	1	0	1	0	.000
Plattville Normal	1	0	1	0	.000
Washburn	1	0	1	0	.000

Ohio Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.10.1904	Case	6	Kenyon	0
09.10.1904	Reserve	48	Mt. Union	0
09.10.1904	Ohio State	24	Denison	0
09.10.1904	Oberlin	6	Wooster	0
09.10.1904	Medics	6	Otterbein	0
09.10.1904	Heildelberg	85	Lima AA	0
09.10.1904	Cincinnati	29	Wittenberg	4
	Week 2
16.10.1904	Michigan	31	Ohio State	6
16.10.1904	Ohio Wesleyan	23	Oberlin	13
16.10.1904	Denison	40	Muskingum	0
16.10.1904	Mt. Union	16	Seto	5
16.10.1904	Case	22	Wooster	0
16.10.1904	Reserve	39	Allegheny	0
	Week 3
23.10.1904	Ohio State	16	Case	6
23.10.1904	Reserve	15	Wooster	6
23.10.1904	Oberlin	6	Kenyon	0
23.10.1904	Ohio Northern	34	Ohio Wesleyan	0
23.10.1904	Denison	5	Heidelberg	0
23.10.1904	Cincinnati	11	Kentucky	0
	Week 4
30.10.1904	Case	16	Oberlin	0
30.10.1904	Reserve	5	Ohio Northern	5
30.10.1904	Indiana	8	Ohio State	0
30.10.1904	Ohio Wesleyan	12	Kenyon	0
30.10.1904	Denison	33	Wooster	0
30.10.1904	Cincinnati	11	Ohio Medics	0
30.10.1904	Wittenberg	88	Antioch	0
30.10.1904	Heidelberg	44	Ashland	0
30.10.1904	Wesleyan 2nds	8	Columbus Mutes	0
	Week 5
06.11.1904	Case	21	Ohio Medics	0
06.11.1904	Reserve	12	Oberlin	12
06.11.1904	Illinois	40	Ohio State	0
06.11.1904	Kenyon	6	Denison	6
06.11.1904	Wesleyan	24	Marietta	0
06.11.1904	Wooster	76	Mt. Union	0
06.11.1904	Ohio Northern	42	Otterbien	0
06.11.1904	Wittenberg	68	Miami	0
	Week 6
13.11.1904	Denison	27	Reserve	4
13.11.1904	Case	38	Wesleyan	0
13.11.1904	Oberlin	4	Ohio State	2
13.11.1904	Kenyon	25	Wooster	5
13.11.1904	Ohio Medics	6	Washington & Jefferson	6
	Week 7
20.11.1904	Case	29	Allegheny	4
20.11.1904	Ohio State	11	Kenyon	5
20.11.1904	Hiram	10	Mt. Union	0
20.11.1904	Wittenberg	22	Heidelberg	0
20.11.1904	Oberlin Business College	6	Greenwich	0
20.11.1904	Reserve	12	Wesleyan	5

Western Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.10.1904	Michigan	95	Kalamazoo	0
09.10.1904	Minnesota	35	North Dakota	0
09.10.1904	Chicago	20	Purdue	0
09.10.1904	Illinois	31	Washington	0
09.10.1904	Wisconsin	33	Marquette	0
09.10.1904	Northwestern	55	Lombard	0
09.10.1904	Beloit	77	Plattville Normal	0
09.10.1904	Notre Dame	44	American Medics	0
09.10.1904	De Pauw	18	Indiana Normal	0
09.10.1904	Kentucky	12	Indiana	0
09.10.1904	Iowa	17	Drake	0
09.10.1904	Colorado	6	Nebraska	0
09.10.1904	Vanderbilt	56	Georgetown	0
	Week 2
16.10.1904	Chicago	39	Iowa	0
16.10.1904	Illinois	10	Indiana	0
16.10.1904	Northwestern	34	Beloit	0
16.10.1904	Wisconsin	58	Notre Dame	0
16.10.1904	Minnesota	32	Ames	0
16.10.1904	Purdue	6	Wabash	0
16.10.1904	Knox	33	Lake Forest	0
16.10.1904	Drake	52	Coe	0
16.10.1904	Haskell	39	Missouri	0
16.10.1904	De Pauw	35	Earlham	0
16.10.1904	Culver	16	Rose Poly	0
	Week 3
23.10.1904	Chicago	32	Northwestern	0
23.10.1904	Michigan	130	West Virginia	0
23.10.1904	Minnesota	146	Grinnell	0
23.10.1904	Illinois	24	Purdue	6
23.10.1904	Indiana	21	Washington	6
23.10.1904	Wisconsin	81	Drake	0
23.10.1904	Iowa	12	Normal	5
23.10.1904	Nebraska	34	Knox	0
23.10.1904	Ames	87	Simpson	0
	Week 4
30.10.1904	Michigan	28	Wisconsin	0
30.10.1904	Chicago	6	Illinois	6
30.10.1904	Minnesota	16	Nebraska	12
30.10.1904	Iowa	10	Ames	6
30.10.1904	Texas	23	Washington University	0
30.10.1904	Kansas	5	Washburn	0
30.10.1904	Northwestern	45	De Pauw	0
30.10.1904	Utah University	12	Denver University	0
30.10.1904	Stanford	35	University of Oregon	0
	Week 5
06.11.1904	Michigan	26	Drake	4
06.11.1904	Chicago	58	Texas	0
06.11.1904	Illinois	46	Ohio State	0
06.11.1904	Wisconsin	36	Beloit	0
06.11.1904	Northwestern	57	Oshkosh	0
06.11.1904	Nebraska	17	Iowa	6
06.11.1904	Minnesota	69	Lawrence	0
06.11.1904	Kansas	54	Notre Dame	0
06.11.1904	Washington	11	Missouri	0
06.11.1904	Purdue	24	Indiana Medical	7
	Week 6
13.11.1904	Michigan	22	Chicago	12
13.11.1904	Minnesota	28	Wisconsin	0
13.11.1904	Northwestern	12	Illinois	0
13.11.1904	Purdue	27	Indiana	0
13.11.1904	Haskell Indians	14	Nebraska	6
13.11.1904	Stanford	18	California	0
13.11.1904	Iowa	69	Grinnell	0
13.11.1904	Kansas	12	Washington	0
13.11.1904	Culver	44	Armour	0
13.11.1904	Rose Poly	23	Earlham	4
13.11.1904	Ohio Northern	18	Fort Wayne Medical	0
	Week 7
20.11.1904	Minnesota	17	Northwestern	0
20.11.1904	Illinois	29	Iowa	0
20.11.1904	Notre Dame	10	De Pauw	0
20.11.1904	West Virginia	6	Washington	0
20.11.1904	Nebraska	51	Bellevue	0
20.11.1904	Wabash	51	Butler	0
20.11.1904	Haskell Indians	14	Washburn	L
20.11.1904	Mississippi	21	Nashville	5
20.11.1904	Rose Poly	22	Decatur	6
20.11.1904	Knox	16	Beloit	0

Eastern Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.10.1904	Princeton	16	Washington & Jefferson	0
09.10.1904	Yale	24	Penn State	0
09.10.1904	Pennsylvania	24	Lehigh	0
09.10.1904	Cornell	34	Hamilton	0
09.10.1904	Columbia	11	Williams	0
09.10.1904	West Point	18	Dickinson	0
09.10.1904	Colgate	11	Syracuse	0
09.10.1904	Annapolis	12	Virginia Military	0
09.10.1904	Carlisle	10	Bucknell	4
09.10.1904	Dartmouth	37	Vermont	0
09.10.1904	Philips Exeter	29	Bates	0
09.10.1904	Brown	27	Amherst Aggies	0
09.10.1904	Amherst	40	Trinity	0
	Week 2
16.10.1904	Harvard	4	West Point	0
16.10.1904	Yale	17	Syracuse	9
16.10.1904	Annapolis	10	Princeton	0
16.10.1904	Amherst	12	Columbia	0
16.10.1904	Cornell	24	Bucknell	12
16.10.1904	Pennsylvania	6	Brown	0
16.10.1904	Carlisle Indians	100	Albright	0
16.10.1904	Dartmouth	11	Williams	0
16.10.1904	Washington & Jefferson	6	Columbia	0
16.10.1904	Georgetown	17	Villanova	0
16.10.1904	Williston	0	Yale Freshmen	0
	Week 3
23.10.1904	West Point	11	Yale	6
23.10.1904	Harvard	12	Carlisle Indians	0
23.10.1904	Princeton	60	Lehigh	0
23.10.1904	Pennsylvania	16	Columbia	0
23.10.1904	Cornell	36	Franklin and Marshall	0
23.10.1904	Dartmouth	18	Holy Cross	4
23.10.1904	Amherst	5	Brown	0
23.10.1904	Wesleyan	39	Rutgers	0
23.10.1904	Annapolis	0	Dickinson	0
23.10.1904	Syracuse	52	Niagara	4
23.10.1904	Georgetown	47	Washington and Lee	0
23.10.1904	Penn State	12	Washington & Jefferson	0
	Week 4
30.10.1904	Pennsylvania	11	Harvard	0
30.10.1904	Yale	34	Columbia	0
30.10.1904	Princeton	18	Cornell	6
30.10.1904	Swarthmore	9	Navy	0
30.10.1904	West Point	16	Williams	0
30.10.1904	Dartmouth	33	Wesleyan	0
30.10.1904	Carlisle Indians	14	Virginia	6
30.10.1904	Georgetown	17	Holy Cross	0
30.10.1904	Washington and Jefferson	35	Geneva	0
	Week 5
06.11.1904	Princeton	12	West Point	6
06.11.1904	Harvard	0	Dartmouth	0
06.11.1904	Yale	22	Brown	0
06.11.1904	Pennsylvania	22	Lafayette	0
06.11.1904	Cornell	56	Lehigh	5
06.11.1904	Columbia	10	Stevens	0
06.11.1904	Carlisle	28	Ursinus	0
06.11.1904	Georgetown	16	North Carolina	0
06.11.1904	Amherst	40	Holy Cross	0
06.11.1904	Annapolis	20	Penn State	0
06.11.1904	Wesleyan	22	Vermont	0
06.11.1904	Union	11	Trinity	0
06.11.1904	Princeton Freshmen	10	Yale Freshmen	7
06.11.1904	Wesleyan	22	Virginia	0
	Week 6
13.11.1904	Yale	12	Princeton	0
13.11.1904	Columbia	12	Cornell	6
13.11.1904	Pennsylvania	18	Carlisle	0
13.11.1904	Harvard	28	Holy Cross	5
13.11.1904	Annapolis	5	Virginia	0
13.11.1904	Dartmouth	15	Amherst	4
13.11.1904	West Point	41	New York	0
13.11.1904	Georgetown	12	Bucknell	0
13.11.1904	Syracuse	30	Lehigh	4
13.11.1904	Brown	41	Colby	0
13.11.1904	Bowdoin	12	Bates	6
13.11.1904	Yale Freshmen	18	Harvard Freshmen	0
13.11.1904	Penn State	11	Dicksinson	0
13.11.1904	Exeter	38	Andover	10
13.11.1904	Wesleyan	32	Trinity	6
	Week 7
20.11.1904	Yale	12	Harvard	0
20.11.1904	West Point	21	Syracuse	5
20.11.1904	Dartmouth	12	Brown	5
20.11.1904	Williams	23	Wesleyan	0
20.11.1904	Annapolis	11	Virginia Tech	0
20.11.1904	Pennsylvania	23	Columbia	0
	Week 8
27.11.1904	Carlisle Indians	88	Haskell	4
27.11.1904	Army	11	Navy	0

Report

The College Football season in USA in 1904 was mainly fought by Eastern and Western Colleges (i.e. North East and Mid-West as it is today). The big colleges were still the Ivy League Colleges, with Princeton putting up a 6-0 record and Dartmouth 6-0-1 as per the results reported in the Sandusky Evening Star in Ohio.

Ohio was then the new hotbed of Pro Football in the Country, and while it could still not rival the big Eastern Colleges for drawing power or results, it is interesting to note that it formed a keystone of itself beyween the Big Eastern and Western (Mid-West) Colleges. The Evening Star thought it necessary to includethe results of the two big Indian (Native American) Colleges, Carlisle and Haskell, but the Pacific and Southern Colleges were rarely thought worth reporting on. West Virginia lost 130-0 to Michigan, but still beat Washington University 6-0, giving an indicatio of the relative strength of the Southern and Pacific Colleges.

Notre Dame, the Irish Catholic College in Indiana, managed a 2-2 Record,

References

Bibliography

[1] Professional Football Researchers Association (2011) “The Tigers Pounce Again” The Early History of Professional Football. pg. 199-208. PFRA Publications. Connecticut.

Newspapers

[2] Anon. (1904) “Tigers win again Victorious” Massillon Evening Independent, October 24 1904, pg. 5 [Internet] Available from: https://newspaperarchive.com/massillon-evening-independent-oct-24-1904-p-5/ [accessed 18 August 2020]

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sean Douglas of the Dublin Rebels (Irish American Football League).

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