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The Top Ranked College Football Players of the 1900s
Notes: The rankings are based on college stats.
What players did in the pros does not factor into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | POS | College |
| 1 | James Hogan | OL | Yale |
| 2 | Ted Coy | RB | Yale |
| 3 | Walter Eckersall | QB | Chicago |
| 4 | Willie Heston | RB | Michigan |
| 5 | James Cooney | OL | Princeton |
| 6 | Francis Burr | OL | Harvard |
| 7 | Charles Daly | QB | Army/Harvard |
| 8 | George Chadwick | RB | Yale |
| 9 | Lucius Biglow | OL | Yale |
| 10 | Daniel Hurley | RB | Harvard |
| 11 | Dave Campbell | E | Harvard |
| 12 | Hamilton Fish | OL | Harvard |
| 13 | Hamlin Andrus | OL | Yale |
| 14 | Henry Holt | OL | Yale |
| 15 | John DeWitt | OL | Princeton |
| 16 | Thomas Graydon | RB | Harvard |
| 17 | James Bloomer | OL | Yale |
| 18 | Ralph Davis | E | Princeton |
| 19 | Bill Goebel | OL | Yale |
| 20 | Elmer Thompson | OL | Cornell |
| 21 | Foster Rockwell | QB | Yale |
| 22 | Harold Weekes | RB | Columbia |
| 23 | Bill Hollenback | RB | Penn |
| 24 | Dexter Draper | OL | Penn |
| 25 | Edward Bowditch | E | Harvard |
| 26 | Jack Hubbard | RB | Amherst |
| 27 | Bill Horr | OL | Syracuse |
| 28 | Bill Morley | RB | Columbia |
| 29 | Bill Warner | OL | Cornell |
| 30 | Caspar Wister | E | Princeton |
| 31 | Clarence Alcott | E | Yale |
| 32 | Germany Schulz | OL | Michigan |
| 33 | Gus Ziegler | OL | Penn |
| 34 | John Wendell | RB | Harvard |
| 35 | Paul Bunker | OL | Army |
| 36 | Ralph Glaze | E | Dartmouth |
| 37 | Ralph Kinney | OL | Yale |
| 38 | Roswell Tripp | OL | Yale |
| 39 | Thomas Shevlin | E | Yale |
| 40 | Tom Shevlin | E | Yale |
| 41 | Hunter Scarlett | E | Penn |
| 42 | Robert Torrey | OL | Penn |
| 43 | Bill Dague | E | Navy |
| 44 | Daniel Knowlton | OL | Harvard |
| 45 | Hamilton Corbett | RB | Harvard |
| 46 | Herman Olcott | OL | Yale |
| 47 | Howard Henry | E | Princeton |
| 48 | John Mayhew | RB | Brown |
| 49 | Joseph Gilman | OL | Dartmouth |
| 50 | Robert Forbes | E | Yale |
| 51 | Tad Jones | QB | Yale |
| 52 | Vince Stevenson | QB | Penn |
| 53 | Walter Steffen | QB | Chicago |
| 54 | Andrew Marshall | OL | Harvard |
| 55 | Frank Piekarski | OL | Penn |
| 56 | James McCormick | RB | Princeton |
| 57 | Mark Catlin | E | Chicago |
| 58 | Adrian Regnier | E | Brown |
| 59 | Albert Benbrook | OL | Michigan |
| 60 | Arthur Tipton | OL | Army |
| 61 | Carroll Cooney | OL | Yale |
| 62 | Charles Nourse | OL | Harvard |
| 63 | Charles Rafferty | E | Yale |
| 64 | Dana Kafer | RB | Princeton |
| 65 | Edgar Glass | OL | Yale |
| 66 | Edwin Harlan | RB | Princeton |
| 67 | Frederick Speik | E | Chicago |
| 68 | George Schildmiller | E | Dartmouth |
| 69 | George Stillman | OL | Yale |
| 70 | Gordon Brown | OL | Yale |
| 71 | Henry Hobbs | OL | Yale |
| 72 | Henry Hooper | OL | Dartmouth |
| 73 | James Johnson | QB | Carlisle Indian |
| 74 | John Hallowell | E | Harvard |
| 75 | John Kilpatrick | E | Yale |
| 76 | John McGovern | QB | Minnesota |
| 77 | Karl Brill | OL | Harvard |
| 78 | Oliver Cutts | OL | Harvard |
| 79 | Otis Lamson | OL | Penn |
| 80 | Paul Veeder | RB | Yale |
| 81 | Perry Hale | RB | Yale |
| 82 | Richard Smith | RB | Columbia |
| 83 | Robert Kernan | RB | Harvard |
| 84 | Stephen Philbin | RB | Yale |
| 85 | Thomas Barry | RB | Brown |
| 86 | Truxtun Hare | OL | Penn |
| 87 | Wayland Minot | RB | Harvard |
| 88 | William Dunn | OL | Penn St. |
| 89 | William Erwin | OL | Army |
| 90 | William Knox | RB | Yale |
| 91 | William Lee | OL | Harvard |
| 92 | Edward Dillon | QB | Princeton |
| 93 | Bernard O'Rourke | OL | Cornell |
| 94 | Clark Tobin | OL | Dartmouth |
| 95 | Izzy Levene | E | Penn |
| 96 | John Marks | RB | Dartmouth |
| 97 | Walter Bachman | OL | Lafayette |
| 98 | George Walder | RB | Cornell |
| 99 | Albert Exendine | E | Carlisle Indian |
| 100 | Harold Metcalf | RB | Yale |
| 101 | Harry Von Kersberg | OL | Harvard |
| 102 | Henry Torney | RB | Army |
| 103 | Henry Weeks | OL | Army |
| 104 | Joe Curtis | OL | Michigan |
| 105 | Joseph Maddock | OL | Michigan |
| 106 | Marshall Reynolds | RB | Penn |
| 107 | Percy Northcroft | OL | Navy |
| 108 | Tom Thorp | OL | Columbia |
| 109 | A.H. Douglas | RB | Navy |
| 110 | Charles Belknap | OL | Navy |
| 111 | David Cure | RB | Lafayette |
| 112 | Edward Rich | OL | Dartmouth |
| 113 | Fred Schacht | OL | Minnesota |
| 114 | A. Rex Flinn | RB | Yale |
| 115 | Albert Sharpe | RB | Yale |
| 116 | Andy Smith | RB | Penn |
| 117 | Beaton Squires | OL | Harvard |
| 118 | Blondy Wallace | OL | Penn |
| 119 | Boss Weeks | QB | Michigan |
| 120 | Bud Smith | E | Harvard |
| 121 | Carl Flanders | OL | Yale |
| 122 | Charles Barnard | OL | Harvard |
| 123 | Charles Osborne | OL | Harvard |
| 124 | Claude Fisher | E | Syracuse |
| 125 | Clint Roraback | OL | Yale |
| 126 | Crawford Blagden | OL | Harvard |
| 127 | Dave Allerdice | RB | Michigan |
| 128 | Dick Sheldon | OL | Yale |
| 129 | Earl Sprackling | QB | Brown |
| 130 | Ed Lange | QB | Navy |
| 131 | F. Hobson | OL | Penn |
| 132 | Frank Dennie | E | Brown |
| 133 | Frederick Tibbott | RB | Princeton |
| 134 | Garfield Weede | E | Penn |
| 135 | George Meyer | OL | Navy |
| 136 | Georgee Sawin | RB | Harvard |
| 137 | Guy Hutchinson | QB | Yale |
| 138 | Howard Roome | RB | Yale |
| 139 | Jack Owsley | RB | Yale |
| 140 | Jack Wright | OL | Columbia |
| 141 | James Lawrence | OL | Harvard |
| 142 | James Walker | OL | Minnesota |
| 143 | Jim McCormick | RB | Princeton |
| 144 | Jim Thorpe | RB | Carlisle Indian |
| 145 | Joe Magidsohn | RB | Michigan |
| 146 | John de Saulles | QB | Yale |
| 147 | John Nichols | RB | Harvard |
| 148 | Joseph McAndrew | E | Army |
| 149 | Laurence Bankart | E | Dartmouth |
| 150 | Ledyard Mitchell | RB | Yale |
| 151 | Lydig Hoyt | RB | Yale |
| 152 | Morgan Bowman | RB | Yale |
| 153 | Moses Strathern | OL | Minnesota |
| 154 | Myron Witham | QB | Dartmouth |
| 155 | Napoleon Riley | OL | Army |
| 156 | Neil Snow | E | Michigan |
| 157 | Patrick Grant | OL | Harvard |
| 158 | Paul Withington | OL | Harvard |
| 159 | Raymond Starbuck | RB | Cornell |
| 160 | Robert Boyers | OL | Army |
| 161 | Sanford Hunt | OL | Cornell |
| 162 | Sherman Coy | E | Yale |
| 163 | Theodor Lilley | OL | Yale |
| 164 | Walter Smith | E | Army |
| 165 | William Frincke | QB | Yale |
| 166 | William Newman | OL | Cornell |
| 167 | Williamson Pell | OL | Princeton |
| 168 | Daniel Pullen | OL | Army |
| 169 | Harlan Page | E | Chicago |
| 170 | Bob Folwell | RB | Penn |
| 171 | Charles Sargent | OL | Harvard |
| 172 | George McCaa | RB | Lafayette |
| 173 | Henry Schoelkopf | RB | Cornell/Harvard |
| 174 | Rudolph Siegling | OL | Princeton |
| 175 | Thomas Hammond | E | Army/Michigan |
| 176 | Edward Farnsworth | OL | Army |
| 177 | Alfred Brewster | QB | Cornell |
| 178 | Arthur Brides | OL | Yale |
| 179 | Bobby Marshall | E | Minnesota |
| 180 | George Goss | OL | Yale |
| 181 | John Treas | OL | Penn |
| 182 | Robert McKay | OL | Harvard |
| 183 | Short | OL | Princeton |
| 184 | Sigmund Harris | QB | Minnesota |
| 185 | Walter Foulke | RB | Princeton |
| 186 | Adam Casad | RB | Army |
| 187 | Alexander Inglis | RB | Wesleyan |
| 188 | Allie Miller | QB | Penn |
| 189 | Archibald Douglas | RB | Navy |
| 190 | Arnie Lerum | OL | Wisconsin |
| 191 | Art Howe | QB | Yale |
| 192 | Arthur Curtis | OL | Wisconsin |
| 193 | Benjamin Lang | OL | Dartmouth |
| 194 | Brown | E | Lafayette |
| 195 | Bruce | OL | Columbia |
| 196 | Burton Gale | OL | Chicago |
| 197 | Charles Gould | E | Yale |
| 198 | Chester Neal | E | Yale |
| 199 | Clarence Hockenberger | OL | Yale |
| 200 | Clyde Williams | QB | Iowa |
| 201 | Curtis Redden | E | Michigan |
| 202 | Dillon | OL | Princeton |
| 203 | Eddie Rogers | E | Minnesota |
| 204 | Edward Alexander | OL | Cornell |
| 205 | Edward Kendall | RB | Harvard |
| 206 | Ernest Ver Wiebe | RB | Harvard |
| 207 | Everett Sweeley | E | Michigan |
| 208 | George Capron | RB | Minnesota |
| 209 | H.E. Farnum | OL | Minnesota |
| 210 | Harry Braddock | E | Penn |
| 211 | Henry Schulte | OL | Michigan |
| 212 | Herb Graver | RB | Michigan |
| 213 | Hervey Pierce | OL | Amherst |
| 214 | James Fox | E | Harvard |
| 215 | James McCabe | OL | Penn |
| 216 | Joseph Swan | E | Yale |
| 217 | Lawrence Reifsnider | E | Navy |
| 218 | Leigh Turner | OL | Dartmouth |
| 219 | Lothrop Withington | OL | Harvard |
| 220 | Main | RB | Dartmouth |
| 221 | Martin Wheelock | OL | Carlisle Indian |
| 222 | Norman Tooker | E | Princeton |
| 223 | Peter Hauser | RB | Carlisle Indian |
| 224 | Phillip Von Saltza | RB | Columbia |
| 225 | Red Miller | RB | Notre Dame |
| 226 | Robert Fisher | OL | Harvard |
| 227 | Samuel Hoar | OL | Harvard |
| 228 | Solon Dodds | E | Wesleyan |
| 229 | Thomas Butkiewicz | OL | Penn |
| 230 | Tom Stankard | RB | Holy Cross |
| 231 | Torne | RB | Army |
| 232 | Trout | OL | Lafayette |
| 233 | W.E. Metzenthin | RB | Columbia |
| 234 | W.J. Phillips | OL | Princeton |
| 235 | Wallace Philoon | OL | Army |
| 236 | Walton Thorp | OL | Minnesota |
| 237 | Wilson Bertke | OL | Wisconsin |
| 238 | Frederick Prince | RB | Army |
| 239 | Samuel Morse | RB | Yale |
| 240 | James Vaughn | RB | Dartmouth |
| 241 | A.W. Ristine | RB | Harvard |
| 242 | Albert Fletcher | OL | Brown |
| 243 | Albion Findlay | RB | Wisconsin |
| 244 | Alexander Gillespie | E | Army |
| 245 | Allen Farmer | E | Dartmouth |
| 246 | Bartol Parker | OL | Harvard |
| 247 | Bert Page | OL | Minnesota |
| 248 | Bob Blake | E | Vanderbilt |
| 249 | Charles Fairweather | OL | Illinois |
| 250 | Charles Watson | E | Cornell |
| 251 | Charley Gould | E | Yale |
| 252 | Claude Rothgeb | E | Illinois |
| 253 | Dillwyn Starr | QB | Harvard |
| 254 | Edward Gray | RB | Amherst |
| 255 | Edward Green | RB | Penn |
| 256 | Edward McCallie | RB | Cornell |
| 257 | Edwin Donnelly | OL | Trinity (CT) |
| 258 | Elbridge Green | OL | Harvard |
| 259 | Ernest Farr | OL | Chicago |
| 260 | Forest Van Hook | OL | Illinois |
| 261 | Frank McCaffrey | E | Fordham |
| 262 | Frank Mount Pleasant | QB | Carlisle Indian |
| 263 | Frank Slingluff | OL | Navy |
| 264 | George Kennedy | E | Dartmouth |
| 265 | Gilbert Browne | E | Harvard |
| 266 | H.W. Sheble | RB | Penn |
| 267 | Harry Vaughan | E | Yale |
| 268 | Henry Purcell | RB | Cornell |
| 269 | Henry Van Hoevenberg | E | Columbia |
| 270 | Homer Norton | QB | Navy |
| 271 | Howard Reiter | RB | Princeton |
| 272 | Hubert Fisher | OL | Princeton |
| 273 | Hugo Bezdek | RB | Chicago |
| 274 | J.F. Dana | OL | Princeton |
| 275 | James Bush | E | Wisconsin |
| 276 | Jimmy Johnson | QB | Carlisle Indian |
| 277 | John Bender | RB | Nebraska |
| 278 | John Garrels | RB | Michigan |
| 279 | John Glaze | RB | Dartmouth |
| 280 | John Haselwood | OL | Illinois |
| 281 | John Manier | RB | Vanderbilt |
| 282 | John Messmer | OL | Wisconsin |
| 283 | Johnny Cutler | QB | Harvard |
| 284 | Joseph Brusse | OL | Dartmouth |
| 285 | Josiah McCracken | RB | Penn |
| 286 | Louis Salmon | RB | Notre Dame |
| 287 | M.F. Mills | OL | Princeton |
| 288 | Neil Nichols | E | Navy |
| 289 | Norsky Larson | RB | Wisconsin |
| 290 | Orlo Waugh | OL | Syracuse |
| 291 | Oscar Hunt | OL | Carlisle Indian |
| 292 | P.E. Waller | OL | Princeton |
| 293 | Philip Mills | RB | Harvard |
| 294 | Polly Sieber | RB | Gettysburg |
| 295 | R. Miller | RB | Princeton |
| 296 | Ronald Johnson | E | Army |
| 297 | Russ | E | Brown |
| 298 | Sol Metzger | E | Penn |
| 299 | Stein Stone | OL | Princeton |
| 300 | Ted Frothingham | RB | Harvard |
| 301 | Thomas Doe | OL | Army |
| 302 | Tiny Maxwell | OL | Swarthmore |
| 303 | W.C. Leavenworth | RB | Yale |
| 304 | Walter Kreider | OL | Swarthmore |
| 305 | Walter Rheinschild | OL | Michigan |
| 306 | William Casey | OL | Michigan |
| 307 | William Christy | OL | Army |
| 308 | Wilmer Crowell | QB | Swarthmore |
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