The 1917 NCAA football season featured no obvious winner, with Georgia Tech being named the South's first national champions in the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book. Undefeated teams included Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Williams, and Washington State, as well as one-loss Navy. Michigan was ranked third. However, the selection committee had other ideas, naming an all-Southern team as its official national champion. The Southern team defeated Carlisle 42-0 in Atlanta on November 26. This game is now known as the "World Series of College Football." There are two ways to look at this year's championship. One could say that no team was truly best, or one could say that any team was eligible. Since there was no specific definition for what makes a player "eligible" today, anyone who met the size requirement (60 pounds) was allowed to play. For example, Eben Wilson from California would have been eligible to play in this game. Wilson was a high school athlete from Oakland who attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before transferring to Stanford. He started eight games at left tackle for the 1918 Stanford team that went 9-1-0 and outscored opponents by a total of 513-7. After his senior season, he was drafted into the Army early and never played football again.