In College Football there are no official national champions at the highest (FBS) level. However, there are "mythical national champions," which are based on consensus opinion. Michigan is the current consensus choice for champion of 1901, but Harvard and Yale also claim that they are national champions for that year.
Harvard was the consensus choice of writers at that time, and if there had been an AP poll in 1901, they probably would have been a unanimous #1. Yale bases their claim on the fact that historian Parke Davis retroactively selected them as champion in 1933. But Harvard was 12-0, Yale was 11-1-1, and Harvard beat Yale 22-0.
Michigan was first crowned the 1901 champion 40 years after the fact by the Helms Foundation. Most people today view Michigan as the champion. Which is like people 100 years from now considering Boise State the 2009 champion rather than Alabama.
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The 1901 Italian Football Championship was won by Milan C.F.C.
Catalan football championship was created in 1901.
Yuge National College of Maritime Technology was created in 1901.
== ==; 1901: Michigan and Harvard recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation : Harvard recognized by; College Football Research Association : Yale recognized by: Parke Davis ; 1902: Michigan recognized as National Champion : UM recognized by: Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis (tie with Yale) ; 1903: Michigan and Princeton recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation (tie with Princeton) : Princeton recognized by: Helms, Houlgate, Parke Davis, National Championship Foundation ; 1904: Michigan and Penn recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation (tie with Penn) : Penn recognized by: Helms, Houlgate, Parke Davis, National Championship Foundation (tie) ; 1918: Michigan and Pittsburgh recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation (tie with Pittsburgh) : Pittsburgh recognized by: Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation (tie) ; 1923: Michigan and Illinois recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation (tie with Illinois) : California recognized by: Houlgate : Illinois recognized by: Boand, Football Research, Helms, Parke Davis, National Championship Foundation (tie) ; 1932: Michigan and Southern California recognized as National Champions : UM recognized by: Dickinson, Parke Davis (tie with Colgate and Southern California) : Colgate recognized by Parke Davis (tie) : Southern California recognized by: Billingsley, Boand, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis, (tie), Poling, Williamson ; 1933: Michigan recognized as National Champion : UM recognized by: Billingsley, Boand, College Football Research Association, Dickinson, Helms, Houlgate, Football Research, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis (tie with Princeton), Poling : Ohio State recognized by: Dunkel : Princeton recognized by: Parke Davis (tie) : Southern California recognized by: Williamson ; 1947: Michigan recognized as National Champion: UM recognized by: Associated Press *, Berryman, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms (tie with Notre Dame), Houlgate, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Poling : Notre Dame recognized by: Associated Press Helms (tie), Williamson : *Notre Dame was No. 1 in the final AP poll, but Michigan jumped to No. 1 after an unprecedented post-bowl poll recognized Michigan and Notre Dame as National Champions ; 1948: Michigan recognized as National Champion : UM recognized by: Associated Press, Berryman, Billingsley, Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Houlgate, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Poling, Williamson ; 1997: Michigan and Nebraska recognized as National Champion : UM recognized by: Associated Press, National Football Foundation, Football Writer's Association : Nebraska recognized by: ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll The above calculations are based on the 2002 Michigan Football Media Guide. For further information (and sometimes different conclusions) about college football national champions, see the College Football Date Warehouse National Champions site.
No college football team in the "modern poll era" (generally recognized to have started with the 1950 college football season) has ever won four consecutive national championships as selected by major polls (AP, Coaches Poll, BCS, etc). Prior to the modern poll era, the last program to be recognized by various methods to have won four national titles in four years is the University of Michigan (1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904). Yale is recognized to have won five straight (1891-1895) and six straight (1879-1884). Princeton also won six straight (1869, 1870, 1872-1875 with no college football season in 1871) and five straight (1877-1881). After the 2013 season, the current BCS National Championship Game will be replaced with the "College Football Playoff," and the champion of that playoff will simply be referred to as "College Football Playoff Champions." However, the Coaches Poll and Associated Press will likely still refer to their respective poll champions as "national champions."
Michigan. Except that they were not a member of the Big Ten at that time: it was the "Western Conference." And there were nine schools in it. Also, they didn't actually win a national championship in 1901; they "won" it 40 years later when the Helms Foundation retroactively selected them as 1901 champion.
Liverpool were the Football League Champions in 1901.
The French football champions in 1901 was Roubaix.
California (Football - 1920, 1921, 1922, 1937; Basketball - 1959; Baseball - 1947, 1957)Michigan (Football - 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1932, 1933, 1948, 1997; Basketball - 1997; Baseball - 1953, 1962)Ohio State (Football - 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002; Basketball - 1960; Baseball - 1966)Stanford (Football - 1926; Basketball - 1942; Baseball - 1987, 1988)
RCF Paris was the French football runners up 1901.
Arras Football was created in 1901.