This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/eastexaslion on 2025-02-19 06:48:00+00:00.
Click here to see the introductory post about this series.
Click here to see previous entries in this series.
Claimed National Champions
Yale (12-0) Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, Billingsley Report, Houlgate System, Parke H. Davis
Bold indicates main national championship selector recognized by NCAA Championship List
Notable Events
- The American League is organized with eight teams in Philadelphia.
- Sir Arthur Evans uncovers the Minoan ruins of the Palace of Knossos on Crete
- Karl Landsteiner reports his discovery of blood type systems, which will be referred to as the ABO blood group system. He will be awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery 30 years later.
- Hawaii becomes an official U.S. territory.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago by L. Frank Braum.
- The first Michelin Guide is published.
- The Olympics are held in Paris, France.
- The 1900 Galveston hurricane kills 8,000 people, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history.
- William McKinley wins re-election.
- Milton S. Hershey introduces the Hershey bar.
- Louis Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Aaron Copland, Sammy Davis Sr, and CFB Hall of Famers Eddie Anderson, Harvey Harman, Cal Hubbard, Lloyd Jordan, Mal Stevens, Eddie Tyron, and Ernie Vick are born.
- Oscar Wilde dies.
Rules
- Prolate spheroid, without specific measurements.
- The field is 110 yds. by 53 1/3 yds., uprights 18 1/2' apart, with lines marked every five yards, crossbar 10' high and 25' wide uprights
- When a team has possession of the ball, it must gain five yards within three downs, to gain a new set of downs
- There are three different ways to score. A field goal is worth 5 points, A touchdown is worth 5 points, the kick after a TD is worth 1 points, and a safety is worth 2 Points.
- Each team consists of 11 players on the field.
- **The game is separated into four 15-minute quarters, with a halftime in between. If the game is tied at the end of regulation, next score wins.*
Italics denote rule change from previous season.
\Overtime rules are for simulation only and do not reflect overtime rules of the time.)
The Teams
- Yale 12-0
- Harvard 10-1
- Penn 12-1
- Princeton 8-3
- Columbia 7-3-1
- Lafayette 9-2
- Iowa 7-0-1 (2-0-1)
- Cornell 10-2
- Wisconsin 8-1 (2-1)
- Minnesota 9-0-2 (3-0-1)
- Brown 8-3-1
- Navy 6-3
- Syracuse 7-2-1
- Carlisle Indian 7-4-1
- Army 7-3-1
- Michigan 7-2-1 (3-2)
- Bowdoin 7-2
- Nebraska 7-1-2
- Beloit 7-1-2
- Chicago 9-5-1 (2-3-1)
- Wesleyan CT 5-4 (2-0)
- California 4-2-1
- Northwestern 7-2-3 (2-1-2)
- Auburn 4-0 (4-0)
Teams are listed by their seeding in the bracket.
\Record may not reflect official record of the year.)
Itallics indicate conference champion but don't qualify for auto bid.
Bold indicates conference auto-bid.
First Four Out
Season Breakdown and 1900 All-Americans
When it comes to the 1900 season, the overall theme is East Coast bias. You can look no further than seeing the 1900 list of All-Americans. During this time only nine players outside of what we consider the Ivy's were picked for consensus All-Americans (Center Walter E. Bachman, Lafayette, and End Walter Smith, Army), while only two outside of the East Coast were even picked for Third String All-Americans (QB Clyde Williams, Iowa and Center Bert Page Jr, Minnesota). I slightly hit on this last season as I mentioned the insane run by the Sewanee team, but the bias was really focused on Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and any team that had played with those four teams. It did not help that the teams in the middle of the pack of the Western Conference were getting absolutely killed, such as Penn taking care of Chicago 41-0. However, teams in the Mid-West weren't willing to make the expensive train ride to the West Coast often to play these games, and teams from the South were still trying to create a football tradition.
With that, let's focus on three schools that were invited to this years tournament and what their resume is. First Auburn, as they went undefeated in the SIAA that year, with just four games against Nashville, Tennessee, Alabama, and at Georgia, they outscored their opponents 148-5, with the only score coming from Alabama on a reported 50 yard field goal, where Auburn would manhandle Bama 53-5 that day. Now that season, Clemson was considered the SIAA conference champion that year. However, under the rules I established under conference champions at the beginning of this series, they weren't eligible due to them only playing two conference games to their six overall they played. I was tempted to leave Auburn out entirely, but I felt that it would be disingenuous to do that when four teams did not lose a single game. So I decided to take the highest of the eligible conference leaders, and unfortunately for Tulane (and me), Auburn would beat them out.
The Midwest teams that are of note are the two Western Conference champions that year. First Minnesota, who, with their first full time coach Dr. Henry L. Williams, went 10-0-2 (9-0-2 in the simulator) that year. However, they were still one game shy of getting the "auto bid." That being said their two ties are suspect. The first of which was a 0-0 tie from Minneapolis Central High School, and the other a 6-6 tie vs Chicago (who reminder got beat 41-0 by a 12-1 Penn). Iowa on the other hand handled business far better as they won their first seven games, the first five of which being shutouts. However, the season was one game short of perfection as they tied with Northwestern. Both Iowa and Minnesota would share conference title that year.
That being said, the Ivy's and Lafayette still had the best argument that they were the best teams that year. And yes, it's the usual suspects. The first major test would come from Princeton (who still had no official head coach) and Lafayette on October 20th, as Princeton had struggled with Lehigh, Baltimore Medical (Now UM Medical Center), and Navy that year, but this was their first test against an undefeated school. Princeton would end up winning 5-0 in Easton before continuing. The next battle of undefeated teams came from two 8-0 teams, Harvard and Penn. Harvard had allowed only 5 points from the previous game against the scrappy Carlisle coming in, and Penn for the most part had massive blowouts with their closest game at that time being a 12-point win vs Penn State and Brown. However, this was their first road test, and they would be absolutely shut down by Harvard, as Harvard beat them 17-5 in front of a crowd of 17,000. Th...
Content cut off. Read original on https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1iszavw/simulating_a_playoff_for_every_single_season_of/
