1912 college football season The 1912 college football season was the first of the modern era , as the NCAA implemented changes to increase scoring : September . September 21 The first six - point touchdowns were registered in Dartmouth ' s 26 - 0 victory over Bates College and Carlisle ' s 50 - 7 win over Albright College . Cornell defeated Washington & Jefferson 3 - 0 . Maine defeated Fort McKinley 38 - 0 , Rhode Island State College beat Massachusetts Agricultural 7 - 0 , and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI ) beat Schenectady ' s Columbia College , 13 - 0 September 28 Harvard beat Maine 7 - 0 and Yale beat Holy Cross 7 - 0 . Princeton beat Stevens 65 - 0 and three days later , beat Rutgers 41 - 6 . Dartmouth beat Norwich 41 - 9 . After opening with a 33 - 0 Wednesday win over Albright , Lehigh beat Delaware 45 - 0 . Swarthmore won at Johns Hopkins 40 - 6 . Carlisle beat Dickinson 35 - 0 , and followed on Wednesday with a 65 - 0 win over Villanova at Harrisburg , Pennsylvania . Vanderbilt opened with a 105 - 0 win over visiting Bethel College . October . October 5 Harvard beat Holy Cross 19 - 0 ; Yale beat Syracuse , 21 - 0 ; Princeton defeated Lehigh 35 - 0 ; and Dartmouth beat Massachusetts 47 - 0 Carlisle and Washington & Jefferson played a scoreless tie . Penn State beat Carnegie Tech 41 - 0 . Swarthmore won at Lafayette 22 - 0 . Wisconsin opened with a 13 - 0 win over Lawrence College , Michigan beat Case 34 - 0 , and Chicago beat Indiana 13 - 0 . Texas defeated TCU 30 - 10 . Vanderbilt scored in triple digits again , but was scored upon , in a 100 - 3 win over Maryville College . Georgia beat Chattanooga 33 - 0 and Auburn beat Mercer 56 - 0 in a game at Columbus , Georgia . October 12 Harvard defeated Williams 26 - 3 , Yale beat Lafayette 16 - 0 , Princeton beat Virginia Tech 31 - 0 , and Dartmouth defeated Vermont 55 - 0 . Penn State beat Washington & Jefferson 30 - 0 , Carlisle won at Syracuse 33 - 0 , Lehigh won at Navy , 14 - 0 and Swarthmore won at Penn 6 - 3 . Georgetown beat Washington & Lee , 20 - 0 Vanderbilt beat visiting Rose - Hulman Institute 54 - 0 . Georgia beat The Citadel 33 - 0 . Auburn beat visiting Florida 27 - 13 . Wisconsin beat Northwestern 56 - 0 and Michigan defeated Michigan State 55 - 7 . October 19 Yale won at Army , 16 - 0 , Dartmouth won at Williams 21 - 0 , Harvard beat Amherst 46 - 0 , and Princeton beat Syracuse 62 - 0 and as all four Ivy teams stayed unbeaten . Penn State won at Cornell 29 - 6 , Carlisle won at Pittsburgh 45 - 8 , and Swarthmore won at Annapolis , defeating Navy 21 - 6 , to stay unbeaten . Georgetown won at North Carolina State , 48 - 0 . Vanderbilt and Georgia met in Atlanta . Vandy handed the Bulldogs their only loss in a 46 - 0 drubbing . Sewanee beat Chattanooga 27 - 0 , and Auburn defeated Clemson 27 - 6 . After warmup wins over Daniel Baker College and Trinity College , Texas A & M beat Arkansas 27 - 0 in a game at Dallas . In another game at Dallas , Texas lost to Oklahoma , 21 - 6 . Wisconsin beat Purdue 41 - 0 , Michigan won at Ohio State 14 - 0 , and Chicago defeated Iowa 34 - 14 . October 26 Princeton ( 6 - 0 - 0 ) hosted Dartmouth ( 5 - 0 - 0 ) and won 22 - 7 . Harvard defeated Brown 30 - 10 and Yale beat Washington & Jefferson , 13 - 3 . Penn State beat visiting Gettysburg College 25 - 0 and Swarthmore beat Villanova 27 - 0 . In an intersectional game , Michigan lost at Syracuse 18 - 7 . Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 24 - 0 in Nashville , and Sewanee beat Tennessee 33 - 6 at Chattanooga . In Birmingham , Auburn defeated Mississippi State , 7 - 0 . Carlisle won at Georgetown , 34 - 20 , followed two days later by a game in Toronto in a 49 - 7 win against the " Toronto All - Stars " . At Philadelphia , Penn State beat Pennsylvania , 22 - 6 . Chicago beat Purdue 7 - 0 In Columbus , Georgia , Georgia beat Alabama 13 - 9 . November . November 2 In a matchup of unbeatens , Harvard ( 5 - 0 - 0 ) hosted Princeton ( 6 - 0 - 0 ) . Charles Brickley of Harvard intercepted two passes and kicked a 47 yard field goal and set up a touchdown for Harvard in its 16 - 6 win Carlisle won its 9th game , staying unbeaten with a 34 - 14 win over Lehigh . Yale defeated Brown 10 - 0 and Dartmouth beat Amherst 60 - 0 . Georgetown beat North Carolina 37 - 10 in a game played in Richmond , Virginia . Swarthmore beat Ursinus 22 - 0 Michigan narrowly beat visiting South Dakota , 7 - 6 . In Philadelphia , Penn State beat Penn 14 - 0 . Wisconsin beat Chicago 30 - 12 and Purdue beat Northwestern 21 - 6 . Georgia and Sewanee played to a 13 - 13 tie . Vanderbilt stayed unbeaten with a 13 - 0 win over Virginia . Auburn won at Georgia Tech 27 - 7 . Texas won at Baylor 19 - 7 . November 9 In an intersectional meeting between the best teams of the East and the South , Harvard hosted Vanderbilt . Going into the contest , both teams had records of 6 - 0 - 0 , and Vanderbilt had outscored its opponents 342 - 3 . Harvard played all of its substitutes , and scored a touchdown and a field goal in a 9 - 3 game to give Vandy its only loss of the season . Carlisle visited West Point , beating Army 27 - 6 , as Jim Thorpe scored three touchdowns and three extra points , and Alex Arcasa scored two more TDs . Army halfback ( and future American president ) Dwight D . Eisenhower was injured while tackling Thorpe . Eisenhower , who was described in the press as someone " who hits the line harder than any other man on the Army team " played his last game the following week against Tufts University . Lehigh won at previously unbeaten ( 6 - 0 - 0 ) Swarthmore 3 - 0 . Wisconsin beat visiting Arkansas 64 - 7 , Michigan lost at Penn , 27 - 21 , Chicago beat Northwestern 3 - 0 , and Purdue and visiting Illinois played to a 9 - 9 tie . Penn State beat Villanova 71 - 0 , Princeton beat NYU 54 - 0 , and Dartmouth beat Amherst 60 - 0 . In Augusta , Georgia , Georgia beat Clemson 27 - 6 and in Atlanta , Sewanee beat Georgia Tech 7 - 0 . Auburn defeated LSU 7 - 0 in a game played at Mobile . In a game at Houston , Texas A & M beat Oklahoma 28 - 6 . Texas beat Ole Miss 53 - 14 in a Wednesday game at Houston . November 16 Harvard beat Dartmouth at home , 3 - 0 . Yale ( 7 - 0 - 0 ) traveled to Princeton ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) and the teams played to a 6 - 6 tie . In Philadelphia , Carlisle ( 10 - 0 - 1 ) suffered its first loss , falling to Penn , 34 - 26 . Swarthmore narrowly beat Bucknell , 14 - 13 . Penn State beat Ohio State in Columbus , 37 - 0 . Michigan beat Cornell 20 - 7 to close its season at 5 - 2 - 0 Georgetown beat Virginia 16 - 13 . Wisconsin won at Minnesota 14 - 0 and Chicago won at Illinois 10 - 0 . Vanderbilt beat Centre 23 - 0 . Georgia beat Georgia Tech in Atlanta , 20 - 0 Sewanee and Alabama played to a 6 - 6 tie in Birmingham . Texas A & M beat Mississippi State 41 - 7 at Houston , and beat Tulane three days later , 41 - 0 , to extend its record to 7 - 0 - 0 . November 23 At the Yale campus in New Haven , Harvard ( 8 - 0 - 0 ) faced Yale ( 7 - 0 - 1 ) to wrap up the season . Harvard ' s 20 - 0 win left it one of two teams that was unbeaten and untied . Wisconsin closed a perfect season with a 28 - 10 win at Iowa , to finish 8 - 0 - 0 . Purdue beat Indiana 34 - 7 and Chicago won 7 - 0 over visiting Minnesota . Carlisle won at Springfield College , 30 - 24 . Lehigh won at Lafayette 10 - 0 Swarthmore closed its season with a 0 - 0 tie at Dickinson . In Birmingham , Vanderbilt ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) and Auburn ( 6 - 0 - 0 ) played to a 7 - 7 tie . Texas A & M ( 7 - 0 - 0 ) beat Kansas State 13 - 10 and Texas defeated Southwestern 28 - 3 . November 28 , Thanksgiving Day , Penn State closed its season with a 38 - 0 win at Pittsburgh , to finish 8 - 0 - 0 . Vanderbilt ( 8 - 0 - 1 ) defeated visiting previously unbeaten Sewanee ( 5 - 0 - 2 ) , winning 16 - 0 . Georgia defeated previously unbeaten Auburn 12 - 6 . Carlisle closed its season with a 32 - 0 win at Brown . Georgetown beat Virginia Tech 24 - 3 to close its season at 8 - 1 - 0 . Texas A & M finished its season in Dallas with a 53 - 0 win over Baylor , and Texas closed its season with a 48 - 0 win over visiting Arkansas . Lehigh won at Franklin & Marshall , 29 - 0 . Final standings . East Western South Conference standings . The following is an incomplete list of conference standings :