1904 Western Conference football season

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File:1904_Purdue_football_team.jpg

The 1904 Western Conference football season was the ninth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1904 college football season.

Season overview

=Results and team statistics=

width="25"\|Conf. Rank !width="100"\|Team !width="100"\|Head coach !width="50"\|Overall record !width="50"\|Conf. record !width="50"\|PPG !width="50"\|PAG
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align="left" bgcolor="" \|1 (tie)	Minnesota	Henry L. Williams	13-0	3-0	55.8	0.9
align="left" bgcolor="" \|1 (tie)	Michigan	Fielding H. Yost	10–0	2–0	56.7	2.2
align="left" bgcolor="" \|3	Chicago	Amos A. Stagg	10–1–1	5–1–1	34.2	3.7
align="left" bgcolor="" \|4	Illinois	multiple	9–2–1	3–1–1	19.3	3.5
align="left" bgcolor="" \|5 (tie)	Northwestern	Walter McCornack	8–2	1–2	31.2	5.5
align="left" bgcolor="" \|5 (tie)	Purdue	Oliver Cutts	9–3	1–2	14.7	5.5
align="left" bgcolor="" \|7 (tie)	Iowa	John Chalmers	7–4	0–3	22.8	9.9
align="left" bgcolor="" \|7 (tie)	Wisconsin	Arthur Curtis	5–3	0–3	33.1	9.3
align="left" bgcolor="" \|7 (tie)	Indiana	James H. Horne	6–4	0–3	8.4	11.6

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game

PAG = Average of points allowed per game{{cite web|title=1904 Western Conference Year Summary|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|accessdate=December 29, 2016|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/western/1904.html}}

=Regular season=

=Bowl games=

No Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1904 season.

Awards and honors

=All-Western players=

{{For|the complete All-Western selections|1904 All-Western college football team}}

Eleven players were chosen as first-team players on at least four of the 1904 All-Western college football teams named by the following eight selectors: Collier's Weekly (COL),{{cite book|title=Collier's Self Indexing Annual|page=674|year=1905|publisher=P. F. Collier & Son|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eb86AQAAMAAJ}} Chicago Record-Herald (CRH),{{cite news|title=News-Athletics|newspaper=The Michigan Daily|date=December 1904|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQXiAAAAMAAJ}} Chicago Tribune (CT),{{cite news|title=All-Western Football Eleven|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=November 27, 1904|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1904/11/27/page/14/article/pick-of-football-stars}} Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit Tribune (DT), The Minneapolis Journal (MJ),{{Cite news|author=O'Loughlin|title=The Journal's "All Western"|newspaper=The Minneapolis Journal|date=November 28, 1904|page=15|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1904-11-28/ed-1/seq-15/#date1=1901&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=19&words=all+all-western+football+western&proxdistance=5&date2=1904&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=all-western&andtext=football&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3}} The St. Louis Republic (SLR),{{cite news|title=All-Western Football Team|newspaper=The St. Louis Republic|date=November 30, 1904|page=9|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-11-30/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1901&sort=relevance&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=17&words=all+all-Western+Football+football+Western&proxdistance=5&date2=1904&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=all-western&andtext=football&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3}} and Walter Camp (WC) in Collier's Weekly.{{cite book|title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1905|editor=Walter Camp|publisher=American Sports Publishing Company|year=1905|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&q=remp+wisconsin+football&pg=RA1-PA35}} (Players unanimously chosen by all eight selectors are listed in bold.)

Claude Rothgeb, end, Illinois (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, DT, SLR, WC)
James Irving Bush, end, Wisconsin (COL, CRH, DFP, DT, MJ, WC)
Joe Curtis, tackle, Michigan (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, DT, MJ, SLR, WC)
Wilson Bertke, tackle, Wisconsin (COL, DFP, MJ, SLR, WC)
Walton W. Thorpe, guard, Minnesota (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, DT, MJ, SLR, WC)
Charles A. Fairweather, guard, Illinois (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, SLR, WC)
John Hazelwood, center, Illinois (COL, CRH, CT, SLR)
Walter Eckersall, Chicago (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, DT, SLR, WC)
Willie Heston, halfback, Michigan (COL, CRH, CT, DFP, DT, MJ, SLR, WC)
E. J. Vanderboom, halfback, Wisconsin (DFP, DT, SLR, WC)
Frank Longman, fullback, Michigan (COL, CRH, DFP, DT)

=All-Americans=

{{For|the complete All-America selections|1904 College Football All-America Team}}

The following three Western Conference players were consensus first-team players on the 1904 College Football All-America Team.

Fred Speik, end, Chicago (Caspar Whitney [CW])
Willie Heston, halfback, Michigan (Walter Camp [WC], New York Evening Telegram)
Walter Eckersall, fullback, Chicago (CW, WC)