The 1902 All-Western college football team consists of

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1902 Western Conference football season.

All-Western selections

Ends

* Allen Abbott, Wisconsin (CT, CDN, CRH, MEW, MJ-2, W) *

Curtis Redden Curtis Gerald "Cap" Redden (February 8, 1881 – January 16, 1919) was an American football player. He was the starting left end for the University of Michigan's football team from 1901 to 1904. He played for Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams a ...

, Michigan (CDN, MEW, MJ-2) * Edward L. Rogers, Minnesota (CT, MJ-1) * James F. Cook, Illinois (CRH, MJ-1) * Frederick A. Speik, Chicago (W)

Tackles

* Joe Maddock, Michigan (CT, CDN, CRH, MEW, MJ-1, W) * E. W. Farr, Chicago (CT, CDN, CRH, MJ-2) *

Fred Schacht Frederick E. Schacht (c. 1875 – December 1, 1906) was an American college football coach, player, and medical doctor. He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—from 1904 to 1905, ...

, Minnesota (MJ-2, W) * J. M. Davidson, Purdue (MJ-1) *

Jake Stahl Garland "Jake" Stahl (April 13, 1879 – September 18, 1922) was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and New York Highlanders. Biography A graduate of the University of ...

, Illinois (MEW)

Guards

* John G. Flynn, Minnesota (CT, CDN, CRH, MEW, MJ-1, W) *

Dan McGugin Daniel Earle McGugin (July 29, 1879 – January 23, 1936) was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from ...

, Michigan (CRH, MEW, MJ-2, W) (CFHOF) * Herbert Ahlswede, Chicago (CT, MJ-2) * J. Arthur Baird, Northwestern (CDN) * Arnie Lerum, Wisconsin (MEW, MJ-1)

Centers

* Shorty Ellsworth, Chicago (CT, CRH, MJ-1) * Emil Skow, Wisconsin (CDN, MEW, W) * George W. Gregory, Michigan (MJ-2)

Quarterbacks

* Boss Weeks, Michigan (CT, CDN, CRH, MEW, MJ-1, W) *

Sigmund Harris Sigmund "Sig" Harris (July 2, 1883 – November 8, 1964) was an American college football player. He was University of Minnesota's All-American quarterback in 1902–04, for powerful teams under Dr. Henry L. Williams. He was also a plucky, b ...

, Minnesota (MJ-2)

Halfbacks

Willie Heston William Martin Heston (September 9, 1878 – September 9, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake University ...

, Michigan (CT, CDN, CRH, MEW, MJ-1, W) (CFHOF) * Paul J. Jones, Michigan (CT, W ullback MEW ullback MJ-2 ullback * Harry J. Van Valkenburg, Minnesota (CRH, MEW, MJ-1) * Louis J. Salmon, Notre Dame (CDN) *

James M. Sheldon James Milton Sheldon Sr. (c. 1880 – July 7, 1965) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Indiana University from 1905 to 1913, while also se ...

, Chicago (W) * Albert Herrnstein, Michigan (MEW, MJ-2) * E. J. Vanderboom, Wisconsin (MJ-2)

Fullbacks

Everett Sweeley Everett Marlin Sweeley (March 4, 1880 – September 2, 1957) was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yost's 1901 and 1902 " ...

, Michigan (CT, CDN, CRH) *Warren Cummings Knowlton, Minnesota (MJ-1)

Key

CT = ''

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television a ...

'' CDN = ''

Chicago Daily News The ''Chicago Daily News'' was an afternoon daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, published between 1875 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. History The ''Daily News'' was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Doughert ...

'' selected by Fred Hayner CRH = ''Chicago Record-Herald'' selected by Carl M. Green MEW = ''Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin'' MJ = ''The Minneapolis Journal'' W = Woodruff CFHOF = College Football Hall of Fame

References

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