1906 College Football All - America Team The 1906 College Football All - America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All - Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All - America Team s for the 1906 college football season . The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for " Collier ' s Weekly " , Casper Whitney for " Outing Magazine " , the " New York World " , the " New York Sun " , " The New York Times " , the " New York Mail " , and Charles Chadwick . Overview . The 1906 college football season was a year of change . Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football , a number of rule changes were implemented in 1906 . The most lasting change introduced in 1906 was the forward pass . Several of the players selected as All - Americans in 1906 gained attention for their use of the new tactic . These include Eddie Dillon , the first Princeton quarterback to make use of the forward pass , and Yale ' s Paul Veeder and Bob Forbes who combined for one of first important pass plays , a play described in one history of the game as follows : " The only other significant pass that season was thrown by Yale , which gained a first down that led to victory over Harvard , when Paul Veeder threw thirty yards to Bob Forbes . " The Eastern powers dominated the game of college football in 1906 , and players from the Ivy League dominated the All - American selections . Both the Princeton Tigers and the Yale Bulldogs finished with undefeated seasons and played each other to a 0 - 0 tie on November 17 , 1906 . Out of 15 players recognized in the NCAA Record Book as consensus All - Americans for the 1906 season , 13 played for Ivy League teams , and 7 played for Princeton or Yale . Only two players from " western " schools were first - team selections - - quarterback Walter Eckersall from the University of Chicago and center William Thomas Dunn from Penn State . The only unanimous first - team All - American in 1906 was Yale end Bob Forbes . Other players who were named to the first team by at least five of the eight selectors reflected below were end Caspar Wister of Princeton ( 6 first - team designations ) , tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow of Yale ( 7 selections ) , guard Francis Burr of Harvard ( 7 selections ) , guard Elmer Thompson of Cornell ( 5 selections ) , center Clarence Hockenberger of Yale ( 5 selections ) , and halfback Hugh Knox of Yale ( 5 selections ) . The " Washington Post " in December 1906 wrote of the difficulty involved in selecting eleven players for an All - American team : " A big problem confronts the person who this year undertakes to select eleven men for a football team which he wishes to call the best in the country . There are more good men than ever before , among the minor elevens , because , with a premium , placed on speed rather than on weight , the lighter men have had a better opportunity to distinguish themselves . It would be possible to pick at least three teams which would make things mighty interesting for each other . The East has completely eclipsed the West this season , and that somewhat simplifies matters . The Western teams failed to grasp the possibilities of the new rules and players of that section who were brilliant last year did not get an opportunity , to shine this year in the new game . Walter Eckersall , of Chicago , appears to be the only Westerner who has a right to be in the All - American team this fall . " In announcing his All - American team , Caspar Whitney wrote that he had weighed character as a factor in his selections : " This eleven is chosen , after a season ' s observation , with a view to collecting the most resourceful , strongest all - round team under the new rules . No man whose amateur status is a matter of question or whose play has been unsportsmanly is eligible to this national team , which , in keeping with its honorary nature , I endeavor to confine to sportsmen . "