[1] When Harvard met Yale at season's end, it was considered to be for the national championship by the contemporaneous media.
[2][3] Harper's Weekly (photo below) and the Chicago Tribune recognized the team as national champions.
[2] In addition, the team was retrospectively named as the national champion by two selectors, the Billingsley Report[4] and Parke H.
A modern authority on college football rankings said, "Indeed, had there been an AP poll in 1901, Harvard would have been #1 by a landslide.
"[3] Nine Harvard players received first-team honors from Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the 1901 All-America team: