1907 college football rankings

1907 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States football rankings
Season	1907
Bowl season	1907–08 bowl games
End of season champions	Yale
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States football rankings

The 1907 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for The Outing Magazine.

Caspar Whitney

Writing for The Outing Magazine, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1907, Caspar Whitney ranked the top fourteen teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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.^[2]

Rank	Team^[1]	Record
1	Yale	9–0–1
2	Princeton	7–2
3	Carlisle	10–1
4	Penn	11–1
5	Harvard	7–3
6	Cornell	8–2
7	Michigan	5–1
8	Chicago	4–1
9	Annapolis	9–2–1
10	Army	6–2–1
11	Minnesota	2–2–1
12	Brown	7–3
13	Dartmouth	8–0–1
14	Swarthmore	6–2

References

^ ^a ^b Whitney, Caspar (January 1908). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The View-Point: Team Ranking 1907". The Outing Magazine. Vol. LI, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 495–498, 514–516. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "National Champion Major Selections (1896 to Present)". 2022 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2022. p. 114. Retrieved January 4, 2023. Caspar Whitney (1905-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.
^ Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967). Laguerre, André (ed.). "This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open". Sports Illustrated . Vol. 27, no. 11. Chicago. pp. 28–34. Retrieved February 8, 2016. Polls and systems to determine the No. 1 team are not nearly so ancient as the mere naming of the "intercollegiate champion" by a Casper Whitney or a J. Parmly Paret.