1913 college football season

1913 NCAA football season
Harvard defeating Princeton
Total # of teams	76
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Auburn Tigers Chicago Maroons Harvard Crimson
College football seasons « 1912 1914 »

The 1913 NCAA football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Auburn, Chicago, and Harvard as having been selected national champions. All three teams finished with undefeated records. Chicago and Harvard officially claim national championships for the 1913 season.

Chicago was also the champion of the Western Conference, Missouri was champion of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA), and Colorado won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Conference and program changes

• The Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin (now the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, a Division III conference) began football play in 1913.

School	1912 Conference	1913 Conference
Kansas State Wildcats	Independent	MVIAA
Ohio State Buckeyes	OAC	Big Nine (Western)

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1913 Big 9 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Chicago $ 7 – 0 – 0     7 – 0 – 0 Iowa 2 – 1 – 0     5 – 2 – 0 Minnesota 2 – 1 – 0     5 – 2 – 0 Purdue 2 – 1 – 2     4 – 1 – 2 Illinois 2 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1 Wisconsin 1 – 2 – 1     3 – 3 – 1 Ohio State 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 2 – 1 Indiana 2 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 Northwestern 0 – 6 – 0     1 – 6 – 0 $ – Conference champion

1913 Missouri Valley football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Missouri + 4 – 0 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 Nebraska + 3 – 0 – 0     8 – 0 – 0 Kansas 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 0 Iowa State 2 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Drake 1 – 3 – 0     4 – 3 – 1 Kansas State 0 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 1 Washington (MO) 0 – 4 – 0     1 – 5 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

1913 SAIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T North Carolina A&M $ 2 – 0 – 0     6 – 1 – 0 Maryland 1 – 0 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 Washington and Lee 3 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0 Georgetown 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Virginia 1 – 1 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 VPI 1 – 1 – 0     7 – 1 – 1 Johns Hopkins 0 – 2 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 North Carolina 0 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion

1913 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Auburn $ 8 – 0 – 0     8 – 0 – 0 Mississippi A&M 5 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 1 Georgia 3 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Vanderbilt 3 – 1 – 0     5 – 3 – 0 Georgia Tech 5 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 0 Alabama 4 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 Sewanee 2 – 2 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 LSU 1 – 1 – 2     6 – 1 – 2 Florida 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Clemson 2 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Mississippi College 1 – 2 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 1 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 The Citadel 0 – 4 – 1     3 – 4 – 2 Mercer 0 – 4 – 1     2 – 5 – 1 Kentucky 0 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Central 0 – 2 – 0     2 – 5 – 0 Tulane 0 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 0 $ – Conference champion

See also

• 1913 College Football All-America Team
• 1913 College Football All-Southern Team