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s that season. The organizations that chose the teams included ''

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'' selected by

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All-Americans of 1904

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Tom Shevlin Thomas Leonard Shevlin (March 1, 1883 – December 29, 1915) was an American college football player and coach at Yale University and a businessman. He was a consensus All-American for three of his four years, selected a first-team All-American ...

, Yale (

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) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA; PI) * Frederick A. Speik, Chicago (CW-1) *

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, Dartmouth (WC-3; CW-2; NYH; NYET) * Garfield Weede, Penn (WC-2; NYS-1; PNA-1) * Chester T. Neal, Yale (NYS-2; NYT; PI) * Thomas W. Hammond, Army (NYS-2; PR) * Alexander Garfield Gillespie, Army (WC-2) *

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, Illinois (WC-3; FL) * Russ, Brown (CW-2) * James Bush, Wisconsin (FL)

Tackles

* James Hogan, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL) * James Cooney, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PI) *

Joe Curtis John Spencer "Big Joe" Curtis (November 14, 1882 – January 29, 1972) was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 t ...

, Michigan (WC-2; FL) * James R. Bloomer, Yale (CW-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1; FL ub *

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, Columbia (WC-2; CW-2; NYS-2) * Thomas Alexander Butkiewicz, Penn (WC-3) * Thomas B. Doe, Army (WC-3)

Guards

* Frank Piekarski, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; NYH; PR; NYET; PNA-1; PI) * Joseph Gilman, Dartmouth (WC-2; CW-1) *

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, Yale (WC-1; CW-2 NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1) *

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, Yale (WC-2; CW-2 NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PI) * Short, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2; PR) * Walton W. Thorp, Minnesota (WC-3; FL) * Charles A. Fairweather, Illinois (FL) Willie Heston

Centers

* Arthur Tipton, Army (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; PR) * Clint Roraback, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; NYET; PNA-1; PI) * Robert Grant Torrey, Penn (WC-3; CW-2) * John M. Haselwood, Illinois (FL)

Quarterbacks

* Vince Stevenson, Penn (WC-1; NYS-2; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI) *

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, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET) *

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, Minnesota (WC-3) * Dillwyn Parrish Starr, Harvard (CW-2)

Halfbacks

* Daniel Hurley, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYT; PR; PNA-1; PI) *

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, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYET; FL) * Lydig Hoyt, Yale (WC-3; CW-2 b NYS-1; NYH; PR) * Jack Owsley, Yale (NYS-2) * Marshall Reynolds, Penn (WC-2; NYS-2; NYT; PNA-1) * W. E. Metzenthin, Columbia (NYH) * Jack Hubbard, Amherst (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CW-2) * James Vaughn, Dartmouth (WC-3) * W. C. Leavenworth, Yale (PI) * Frederick A. Prince, Army (CW-2) * Walter L. Foulke, Princeton (FL ub

Fullbacks

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, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 CW-1; FL b * Andy Smith, Penn (WC-1; NYS-1; NYH; NYET; PNA-1; PI; FL b * Henry Torney, Army (CW-1 b NYT; NYET) * Philip O. Mills, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; PR) * John R. Bender, Nebraska (WC-3) * Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (FL)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1904 * WC = ''

'' as selected by

* CW =

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for ''Outing'' magazine Other selectors * NYS = ''

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'' * NYT = ''

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'' * NYH = ''

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'' * PR = ''New York Press'' * NYET = ''New York Evening Telegram'' * PNA = ''Philadelphia North American'' * PI = ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' * FL = Fred Lowenthal, coach of the University of Illinois Bold = Consensus All-American * 1 – First-team selection * 2 – Second-team selection * 3 – Third-team selection

References

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