1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team

1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0
Head coach
CaptainClarence Kenney
Home stadiumHandlan's Park, Sportsman's Park
Seasons
← 1905
1907 →
1906 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Louis     11 0 0
North Dakota Agricultural     5 0 0
Butler     1 0 0
Michigan State Normal     5 0 1
Iowa State     9 1 0
Ohio     7 1 0
Notre Dame     6 1 0
St. Mary's (OH)     5 1 0
Fairmount     7 1 2
Wabash     5 1 1
South Dakota State     3 1 0
Kansas     7 2 2
Michigan Agricultural     7 2 2
Kansas State     5 2 0
Missouri     5 2 1
Detroit College     4 2 1
Northern Illinois State     4 2 1
Carthage     3 2 0
Lake Forest     3 2 0
Nebraska     6 4 0
Wittenberg     5 4 1
Heidelberg     3 3 1
Washington University     2 2 2
Beloit     3 4 1
Franklin     3 4 0
Doane     2 3 0
Shurtleff     2 4 2
Western State Normal (MI)     1 2 0
Mount Union     2 5 1
Drake     2 5 0
Haskell     2 5 0
Marquette     1 4 2
Chicago P&S     0 1 1
Cincinnati     0 7 2
Western Illinois     0 3 0

The 1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a perfect 11–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 407 to 11.

The forward pass became legal in 1906, and Saint Louis is credited by some with having thrown the first legal forward pass in a September 5, 1906, game against Carroll College.[1] Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that "E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light."[2] Halfback Bradbury Robinson led the team's early passing attack.

  1. ^ "Courtesy of the National Football Foundation, "This week in college football history", The Phanatic Magazine, August 31, 2007". Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Nelson, David M. (1994). The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules, and the Men Who Made the Game. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-455-2., p. 128