Jack F. Rissman, a Chicago clothing merchant who had previously donated a trophy presented to the No.

1 by Dickinson if it defeated Notre Dame in the final game of the regular season.

[4] One critic at the time parodied Rissman's proliferation of personal championship trophies, writing: "All that is needed now to make the football season a complete success is for someone to figure out a system to declare Colgate the undisputed national champion and to give the Red Raiders a trophy indicative of the same.

[...] More national champions, more systems of picking them and more trophies to give them have long been the crying need of football.

[...] Under the Beale system, I hereby award the national football championship to Bucknell (dear old alma mater)."