1911 college football season

Rules

• Field 110 yards in length
• Kickoff made from midfield
• Three downs to gain ten yards
• Touchdown worth 5 points
• Field goal worth 3 points
• Forward pass legal, but subject to penalties:

Conference and program changes

September

September 23

• Carlisle beat Lebanon Valley 53-0, and in a Wednesday game beat Muhlenberg 32-0
• Lafayette beat Bloomsburg College 53-0
• Brown beat New Hampshire 56-0

  September 30

• Brown beat Rhode Island 12-0
• Princeton beat Stevens 37-0, and three days later, beat Rutgers 37-0
• Carlisle beat Dickinson 17-0
• Lafayette beat Ursinus College 3-0
• Penn State beat Geneva College 57-0
• Arkansas beat visiting Southwest Missouri State College, 100-0
• Georgia beat Alabama Presbyterian 51-0
• Minnesota opened its season with a 5-0 win over Iowa State.
• Vanderbilt opened with a 40-0 win over visiting Birmingham College
• Harvard beat Bates 15-0

  October

October 7

• Navy beat Johns Hopkins 27-5, and on Wednesday the 11th, beat St. John's College of Maryland, 21-0
• Princeton beat Villanova 31-0 and on October 11, played Lehigh to a 6-6 tie
• Carlisle beat Mount St. Mary's 46-5
• Penn State beat Gettysburg 31-0
• Army beat Vermont 12-0
• After a 39-0 win against the Seamen Gunners, Georgetown beat William & Mary 66-0
• Harvard beat Holy Cross 8-0
• Michigan beat Case 24-0
• Minnesota beat South Dakota 5-0
• Chicago beat Indiana 23-6
• Texas A&M beat Southwestern 22-0.
• Vanderbilt beat Maryville 46-0
• Florida beat The Citadel 15-3
• Georgia beat South Carolina 38-0
• Oklahoma beat Kingfisher 104-0

  October 14

• Carlisle won at Georgetown 28-5
• Navy beat Washington & Jefferson 16-0
• Penn State won 5-0 at Cornell
• Army beat Rutgers 18-0
• Texas A&M beat Austin College 33-0
• Vanderbilt beat visiting Rose-Hulman Institute 33-0 and *Georgia defeated Alabama at Birmingham, 11-3
• Harvard beat Williams 18-0
• Michigan won 15-3 at Michigan State.
• Chicago beat Purdue 11-3
• Princeton beat Colgate 31-0

  October 21

• At Annapolis, Navy and Princeton played to a 0-0 tie.
• Carlisle won at Pittsburgh 17-0
• Harvard defeated Amherst 11-0
• Penn State beat Villanova 18-0
• Army beat Yale 6-0
• Florida and South Carolina played to a 6-6 tie, and three days later, the Gators won at Clemson, 6-5.
• Vanderbilt beat visiting Centre College 45-0; in its first four games, Vandy had outscored its opposition 164-0.
• Georgia beat visiting Sewanee 12-3.
• Texas A&M beat Auburn 16-0
• Michigan beat Ohio State 19-0
• Georgetown won at Richmond 65-0
• Minnesota stayed unbeaten with a 21-3 win over Nebraska
• Chicago defeated Illinois 24-0

  October 28

• In an intersectional meeting of unbeaten teams, Michigan edged visiting Vanderbilt, 9-8
• Navy and Western Reserve played to a 0-0 tie.
• Carlisle beat Lafayette 19-0
• At Philadelphia, Penn State beat Pennsylvania, 22-6.
• Army beat Lehigh 20-0
• Georgetown beat St. John's College of Maryland, 20-0.
• Princeton beat Holy Cross 20-0
• Minnesota won at Iowa 24-6.
• Wisconsin, after shutouts against Lawrence, and Ripon *Colorado College won at Northwestern 28-3
• Harvard was defeated by visiting Brown, 20-6
• Georgia beat Mercer 8-5
• In a Friday game, Texas A&M beat Ole Miss, 17-0

  November

November 4

• Army and Georgetown played to a 0-0 tie.
• Carlisle won its 8th game, 16-0 over Penn.
• Michigan and Syracuse played to a 6-6 tie.
• Navy beat North Carolina State 17-6
• Penn State beat St. Bonaventure 46-0
• Princeton beat Harvard 8-6
• Minnesota hosted Chicago and won 30-0
• Wisconsin beat Iowa 12-0
• Vanderbilt beat visiting Georgia 17-0. Georgia beat Clemson three days later at Augusta, 22-0
• Florida beat visiting Columbia College 9-0 in a Friday game.

  November 11

• Carlisle handed Harvard its second straight loss, winning 18-15
• Navy beat West Virginia 32-0.
• Army was scored upon for the first time in six games, as it beat Bucknell 20-2.
• Michigan lost at Cornell, 6-0
• Chicago won at Northwestern 9-3
• Penn State beat Colgate 17-9
• Princeton beat Dartmouth 3-0
• Florida won at Stetson 27-0
• Vanderbilt beat Kentucky 18-0
• On Monday the 13th, Texas A&M lost to Texas 6-0

  November 18

• At Annapolis, Penn State and Navy played to a 0-0 tie.
• Syracuse handed Carlisle its first defeat, winning 12-11
• Michigan beat Penn 11-9
• Princeton beat Yale 6-3 to close its season at 8-0-2
• Army beat Colgate 12-6
• Georgetown beat Virginia 28-3
• The Army–Navy Game was played in Philadelphia on Friday, November 24, between unbeatens, Navy and Army, with Navy winning 3-0
• Minnesota and Wisconsin played to a 6-6 tie.
• Chicago beat Cornell 6-0
• Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 21-0.
• Georgia beat Georgia Tech 5-0
• Harvard beat Dartmouth 5-3.

  November 25

• Minnesota beat Illinois 11-0
• Chicago beat Wisconsin 5-0
• Michigan and Nebraska 6-6 tie
• Carlisle won at Johns Hopkins, 29-6
• Harvard and Yale played to 0-0 tie.
• Kansas travels to Missouri for a 3-3 tie in what is widely considered the first homecoming game. More than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, to watch a mechanical reproduction of the game while it was being played with the information reported by telegraph.

  November 29

• On Wednesday, November 29, in Savannah, Georgia and Auburn played to a 0-0 tie.

  November 30 (Thanksgiving)

• Penn State won at Pittsburgh 3-0, to finish the season 8-0-1.
• Carlisle closed its season with a 12-6 win at Brown.
• Georgetown beat Lehigh 28-3.
• Florida beat Charleston 21-0.
• Vanderbilt defeated visiting Sewanee 31-0.

  January 1912

Conference standings

Major conference standings

Independents

Minor conferences

Minor conference standings

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Statistical leaders

• Rushing yards leader: Jim Thorpe, Carlisle, 899
• Rushing avg. leader: Jim Thorpe, 8.0