| 1907 college football season | ||
|---|---|---|
 Part of the crowd watching the Penn Quakers defeat Cornell on Franklin Field, Philadelphia | ||
| Champion(s) | Yale | |
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The 1907 college football season saw the increased use of the forward pass, which had been legalized the year before. Football remained a dangerous game, despite the "debrutalization" reforms, and an unprecedented eleven players were killed (9 high school and 2 college), while 98 others were seriously injured.[1] However, there were no serious injuries reported among the major colleges.[1] The Yale Bulldogs, unbeaten with a record of 9–0–1, had the best record. The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, declared retroactively that Yale had been the best college football team of 1907.[2] Yale and Penn both claim 1907 as a national championship season. Although Yale was named as champion by 6 different entities, Penn was not named champion by any. Penn's claim to the championship is only by the university itself.
- ^ a b "Football's Death Record For 1907". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. p. 16. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
- ^ The 2001 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac (Hyperion ESPN Books, 2000), p153