1916 college football season explained

Year:	1916
Number Of Bowls:	1
Champion:	Pittsburgh
Heisman:	Not awarded until 1935

The 1916 college football season had no very clear cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Army and Pittsburgh as national champions.^[1] Only Pittsburgh claims a national championship for the 1916 season. Georgetown led the nation in scoring with 464 points.

Conference changes

• Two conferences began play in 1916:
  • Pacific Coast Conference – a precursor to the modern Pac-12 Conference; four founding members from California, Oregon, and Washington.
  • Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference – an NAIA conference active through the 1976 season
• One conference played its final season in 1916:
  • Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association – active since the 1914 season; several members subsequently joined the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, an active NAIA conference now known as the River States Conference

Membership changes

School	1915 Conference	1916 Conference
	Independent	PCC
Georgetown Tigers	Independent	SIAA
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	Independent	SIAA
	Independent
	Independent	PCC
South Carolina Gamecocks	Independent	SIAA
	Independent
	Independent

Large scores

Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland 222 to 0. Sewanee also beat Cumberland 107 to 0.

Rose Bowl

Oregon defeated Penn, 14–0, in the 1917 Rose Bowl.

Conference standings

Major conference standings

For this article, major conferences defined as those including multiple state flagship public universities.

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association	Hampton Institute	3–0
Indiana College Athletic League	Wabash	—
Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin	River Falls Normal	5–0
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference	Kansas State Normal	5–1–1
Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Centre (KY)	—
Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Southwestern Louisiana Industrial	5–0
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Kalamazoo	4–0
Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference	York (NE)	7–0
Ohio Athletic Conference	Miami (OH)	6–0–1
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference	Kendall	4–0
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Occidental Whittier	3–0–1
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	Fisk	—

Minor conference standings

Awards and honors

All-Americans

See main article: 1916 College Football All-America Team. The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Ockie Anderson	5'9"	165	Sr.	Erie, Pennsylvania	Colgate
HB	Chic Harley	5'11"	171	So.	Chicago, Illinois	Ohio State
HB	Fritz Pollard	5'9"	165	Sr.	Chicago, Illinois	Brown
FB	Elmer Oliphant	5'7"	180	Jr.	Bloomfield, Indiana	Army
E	Bert Baston	6'1"	170	Sr.	St. Louis Park, Minnesota	Minnesota
T	Belford West	6'2"	195	Sr.	Hamilton, New York	Colgate
G	Clinton Black			Sr.	New York, New York	Yale
G	Harrie Dadmun	6'0"	235	Sr.	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Harvard
C	Bob Peck	5'9"	179	Jr.	Lock Haven, Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh
G	Frank T. Hogg	6'2"	193	Sr.	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Princeton
T	Steamer Horning			Sr.	Phoenix, New York	Colgate
E	James P. Herron			Sr.	New Kensington, Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh

Statistical leaders

• Team scoring most points: Georgetown, 464 to 32. (including mid majors, Tulsa 566 to 40)
• Player scoring most points: Johnny Gilroy, Georgetown, 160

Notes and References

1. Book: Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book . 76–77 . The National Collegiate Athletic Association . August 2009 . Indianapolis, IN . 2009-10-16.