1911 college football season The 1911 college football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912 . In 1911 , touchdowns were worth five points , the field was 110 yards in length , and a team had three downs within which to advance the ball ten yards . Although no team finished the season unbeaten " and " untied , the United States Naval Academy ( Navy ) finished with a record of 6 wins and 3 ties ( 6 - 0 - 3 ) . Two of the ties were 0 - 0 games with the other major unbeaten teams , Penn State ( 8 - 0 - 1 ) and Princeton ( 8 - 0 - 2 ) . Other teams that finished the season unbeaten were Minnesota ( 6 - 0 - 1 ) and Florida ( 5 - 0 - 1 ) . The Helms Athletic Foundation , founded in 1936 , declared retroactively that Princeton had been the best team of 1911 Rules . The rules for American football in 1911 included : A pass could not be caught beyond the goal line , nor more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage . September . September 23 Carlisle beat Lebanon Valley 53 - 0 , and in a Wednesday ( Sep . 27 ) game beat Muhlenberg 32 - 0 Lafayette beat Bloomsburg College 53 - 0 Brown beat New Hampshire 56 - 0 September 30 Brown beat Rhode Island 12 - 0 Princeton beat Stevens 37 - 0 , and three days later , beat Rutgers 37 - 0 Carlisle beat Dickinson 17 - 0 Lafayette beat Ursinus College 3 - 0 Penn State beat Geneva College 57 - 0 Arkansas beat visiting Southwest Missouri State College , 100 - 0 Georgia beat Alabama Presbyterian 51 - 0 Minnesota opened its season with a 5 - 0 win over Iowa State . Vanderbilt opened with a 40 - 0 win over visiting Birmingham College Harvard beat Bates 15 - 0 October . October 7 Navy beat Johns Hopkins 27 - 5 , and on Wednesday the 11th , beat St . John ' s College of Maryland , 21 - 0 Princeton beat Villanova 31 - 0 and on October 11 , played Lehigh to a 6 - 6 tie Carlisle beat Mount St . Mary ' s 46 - 5 Penn State beat Gettysburg 31 - 0 Army beat Vermont 12 - 0 After a 39 - 0 win against the Seamen Gunners , Georgetown beat William & Mary 66 - 0 Harvard beat Holy Cross 8 - 0 Michigan beat Case 24 - 0 Minnesota beat South Dakota 5 - 0 Chicago beat Indiana 23 - 6 Texas A & M beat Southwestern 22 - 0 . Vanderbilt beat Maryville 46 - 0 Florida beat The Citadel 15 - 3 Georgia beat South Carolina 38 - 0 October 14 Carlisle ( 4 - 0 ) won at Georgetown 28 - 5 Navy beat Washington & Jefferson 16 - 0 Penn State won 5 - 0 at Cornell Army beat Rutgers 18 - 0 Texas A & M beat Austin College 33 - 0 Vanderbilt beat visiting Rose - Hulman Institute 33 - 0 and Georgia defeated Alabama at Birmingham , 11 - 3 Harvard beat Williams 18 - 0 Michigan won 15 - 3 at Michigan State . Chicago beat Purdue 11 - 3 Princeton beat Colgate 31 - 0 October 21 At Annapolis , Navy and Princeton played to a 0 - 0 tie . Carlisle won at Pittsburgh 17 - 0 Harvard defeated Amherst 11 - 0 Penn State beat Villanova 18 - 0 Army beat Yale 6 - 0 Florida and South Carolina played to a 6 - 6 tie , and three days later , the Gators won at Clemson , 6 - 5 . Vanderbilt beat visiting Centre College 45 - 0 ; in its first four games , Vandy had outscored its opposition 164 - 0 . Georgia beat visiting Sewanee 12 - 3 . Texas A & M beat Auburn 16 - 0 Michigan beat Ohio State 19 - 0 Georgetown won at Richmond 65 - 0 Minnesota stayed unbeaten with a 21 - 3 win over Nebraska Chicago defeated Illinois 24 - 0 October 28 In an intersectional meeting of unbeaten teams , Michigan edged visiting Vanderbilt , 9 - 8 Navy and Western Reserve played to a 0 - 0 tie . Carlisle beat Lafayette 19 - 0 At Philadelphia , Penn State beat Pennsylvania , 22 - 6 . Army beat Lehigh 20 - 0 Georgetown beat St . John ' s College of Maryland , 20 - 0 . Princeton beat Holy Cross 20 - 0 Minnesota won at Iowa 24 - 6 . Wisconsin , after shutouts against Lawrence ( 15 - 0 ) , Ripon ( 24 - 0 ) and Colorado College ( 26 - 0 ) won at Northwestern 28 - 3 Harvard was defeated by visiting Brown , 20 - 6 Georgia beat Mercer 8 - 5 In a Friday game , Texas A & M beat Ole Miss , 17 - 0 November . November 4 Army and Georgetown played to a 0 - 0 tie . Carlisle won its 8th game , 16 - 0 over Penn . Michigan and Syracuse played to a 6 - 6 tie . Navy beat North Carolina State 17 - 6 Penn State beat St . Bonaventure 46 - 0 Princeton beat ( 5 - 0 ) Harvard 8 - 6 Minnesota ( 5 - 0 ) hosted Chicago ( 3 - 0 ) and won 30 - 0 Wisconsin beat Iowa 12 - 0 Vanderbilt beat visiting ( 5 - 0 - 0 ) Georgia 17 - 0 . Georgia beat Clemson three days later at Augusta , 22 - 0 Florida beat visiting Columbia College 9 - 0 in a Friday game . November 11 Carlisle ( 8 - 0 ) handed Harvard ( 5 - 1 ) its second straight loss , winning 18 - 15 Navy beat West Virginia 32 - 0 . Army was scored upon for the first time in six games , as it beat Bucknell 20 - 2 . Michigan ( 4 - 0 - 1 ) lost at Cornell , 6 - 0 Chicago won at Northwestern 9 - 3 Penn State beat Colgate 17 - 9 Princeton beat Dartmouth 3 - 0 Florida won at Stetson 27 - 0 Vanderbilt beat Kentucky 18 - 0 On Monday the 13th , Texas A & M lost to Texas 6 - 0 November 18 At Annapolis , Penn State ( 7 - 0 - 0 ) and Navy ( 5 - 0 - 2 ) played to a 0 - 0 tie . Syracuse handed Carlisle its first defeat , winning 12 - 11 Michigan beat Penn 11 - 9 Princeton beat Yale 6 - 3 to close its season at 8 - 0 - 2 Army beat Colgate 12 - 6 Georgetown beat Virginia 28 - 3 The Army – Navy Game was played in Philadelphia on Friday , November 24 , between unbeatens , ( 5 - 0 - 3 ) Navy and ( 6 - 0 - 1 ) Army , with Navy winning 3 - 0 Minnesota ( 5 - 0 - 0 ) and Wisconsin ( 5 - 0 - 1 ) played to a 6 - 6 tie . Chicago beat Cornell 6 - 0 Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 21 - 0 . Georgia beat Georgia Tech 5 - 0 Harvard beat Dartmouth 5 - 3 . November 25 Minnesota beat Illinois 11 - 0 Chicago beat Wisconsin 5 - 0 Michigan and Nebraska 6 - 6 tie Carlisle won at Johns Hopkins , 29 - 6 Harvard and Yale played to 0 - 0 tie . On Wednesday , November 29 , in Savannah , Georgia and Auburn played to a 0 - 0 tie . November 30 ( Thanksgiving Day in 1911 ) Penn State won at Pittsburgh 3 - 0 , to finish the season 8 - 0 - 1 . Carlisle closed its season with a 12 - 6 win at Brown . Georgetown beat Lehigh 28 - 3 . Florida beat Charleston 21 - 0 . Vanderbilt defeated visiting Sewanee 31 - 0 . The last five - point American football touchdown was scored on January 1 , 1912 in a game at Havana , Cuba . Mississippi A & M College ( later Mississippi State University ) defeated the Club Atletico de Cuba , 12 - 0 . Final standings . East Western South Conference standings . The following is an incomplete list of conference standings :