1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
The Wolverines improved their record to 8-0 with a 107-0 win over Iowa. Michigan scored 17 touchdowns in the game, and its point total was the largest score ever registered against a Big Ten Conference team, and "the largest number ever chalked up by one big university against another." Fielding Yost was absent from the game, choosing to travel to Minnesota to watch the Golden Gophers play in preparation for the upcoming game between the two schools. The Detroit Free Press wrote after the game that "Yost's smile can be seen all the way from Minneapolis."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
Michigan scored 65 points in the first half, and its offense dominated the game. The Michigan Alumnus reported:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
"[T]he versatility of Michigan's play so disconcerted the Iowa team within the first ten minutes that she seemed wholly bewildered. Delayed passes, fake kicks, double passes, end runs, line-bucks off tackle and into the line followed each other like kaleidoscopic transitions. Gains were made at every point and in every conceivable manner."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
The Detroit Free Press also noted the innovative nature of Michigan's offensive game plan:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
"Michigan to-day mixed up her plays so completely that Iowa was completely bewildered. Delayed passes, double passes, ends skirting ends, halves dodging in between end and tackle after their opponents had been boxed out and in, tackles and full back hitting the line like trip hammers made the giant Hawkeyes look like a weak scrub team."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
Everett Sweeley was singled out as the star of the Iowa game for Michigan. He converted 10 goals from touchdown, punted for an average of 50 yards, kicked a field goal from the 35-yard line, and returned a punt 90 yards for a touchdown.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
After the game, the umpire, Hoagland of Princeton, praised Michigan's blocking (then known as interference): "If you can tell me how you are going to break such a perfect interference, four men running ahead of the man with the ball on end runs without allowing Michigan to make a score, I would like to know how it is done." Michigan's trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick, filled in for Yost as the on-field coach against Iowa. After the game, Fitzpatrick noted:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
"I think our team-work today was fine. The men certainly have the right spirit. Coach Yost hated to go away. ... The last thing he said to me was, 'Keene, just before they go into the game, give them a good talk.' Well, I guess they did, and I am proud of them."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
One of the Iowa team members reported receiving a message from Iowa City: "Oh, My. Isn't it awful. Box the remains and send them home."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
In the first eight games of the season, Michigan had scored 537 points (67.1 points per game), more than the 506 points Michigan's 1901 team had scored in the entire regular season.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 107, Iowa 0
The game was played in halves of 35 and 30 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Graver (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0
Michigan returned to Marshall Field in Chicago to play Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons on November 15, 1902. Michigan won the game 21–0 in front of a crowd of 14,000. Before the game started, the Michigan fans in attendance released toy red balloons marked "Chicago" into the "somewhat murky and frosty atmosphere." One Michigan fan, described as "a long-haired collegian wearing a yellow and blue streamer, told a reporter, "That is the way we will toss Chicago up in the air."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0
Everett Sweeley gave Michigan a 5–0 lead with a field goal from a difficult angle at the 25-yard line. Later in the first half, Heston took the ball on a delayed pass and ran 71 yards for a touchdown. Michigan led 10–0 at halftime. In the second half, Sweeley extended Michigan's lead to 15-0 with a field goal from the 17-yard line. With approximately 10 minutes remaining in the game, left tackle William Palmer ran for a touchdown, and Sweeley converted the goal from touchdown to give Michigan its final total of 21 points.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0
The game was the second match between the two legendary coaches, Yost and Stagg. Michigan had defeated Chicago 22–0 in 1901. Despite the successive defeats, Stagg was credited with developing a "magnificent defense to hold Yost's 'hurry up' offense to 21 points in 70 minutes of play."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 21, Chicago 0
The game was played in halves of 35 minutes. Raymond Starbuck was the umpire. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Palmer (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
Michigan defeated Oberlin 63–0 in the ninth game of the season. Michigan scored 28 points in the first half and 33 in the second. The speed of Michigan's "hurry up" offense was demonstrated by a three-play drive in which Herb Graver returned a kickoff 60 yards and Willie Heston ran the remaining 40 yards for a touchdown.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
Early in the second half, Herb Graver fumbled the ball at Michigan's 10-yard line, and the ball was recovered by Oberlin. On a fake field goal, Oberlin took the ball to the four-yard line but was unable to advance the ball further and missed a field goal attempt. Michigan's Herrnstein and Sweeley were both taken out of the game with injuries to their knees.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
With Minnesota's head coach Henry L. Williams and five of his players attending the game to scout the Wolverines, Michigan's quarterback Boss Weeks did not open up the great variety of Michigan's plays and "did not pull much down out of his sleeve for their edification." Only once did Michigan run one of its renowned trick plays, a double pass to Everett Sweeley that was good for 15 yards.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
After the game, the umpire, Allen of Chicago, was asked what he thought of the Michigan team and responded: "Why, it goes without saying that Michigan is a wonder. It is the greatest team I ever saw, and I have watched a lot of them."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
The game was a benchmark game in which Michigan could be compared to the best teams in the east. Cornell had defeated Oberlin 57–0 earlier in the year, and the Detroit Free Press suggested that Michigan's victory by a greater margin "may give the easterners an eye-opener."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
With the popularity of the "Point-a-Minute" tradition at Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported: "The score is one of particularly gratification to Michigan's enthusiasts as it makes Yost's whirlwinds secure a record that never was equalled before, and probably never will be again. Michigan started out the season with as tough a schedule apparently as any team in the west, and if anybody had made a break that this aggregation would be a 'point to the minute' team the man who made the assertion would have been the guy of the town. Yet now, having played 540 minutes, this scoring machine has piled up 621 points, and even if Michigan is shut out by Minnesota in seventy minutes of play the Wolverines will have obtained an average that is the greatest feat in gridiron history."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 63, Oberlin 0
The game was played in halves of 30 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Cole (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Jones (fullback).


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6
In the final game of the 1902 season, Michigan defeated Minnesota 23–6 on Thanksgiving Day. The game got under way at 2:15 p.m. on a brisk afternoon in Ann Arbor. Michigan took the opening kickoff and sustained a 90-yard, seven-minute drive ending with a touchdown by Joe Maddock and a goal after touchdown by Everett Sweeley. The Detroit Free Press reported that, during the opening drive, "the Minnesota line was hurled back, again and again, like that of a minor college eleven."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6
Michigan's second touchdown came on an end run by Heston from the 35-yard line, with Sweeley again kicking the goal to give Michigan a 12–0 lead at halftime. At halftime, South Bend, Indiana resident Louis Elbel conducted the Michigan band as it played a song Elbel had composed four years earlier which was then known as "The Champions of the West" (now known as "The Victors").


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6
In the second half, the Golden Gophers scored after Boss Weeks missed the catch on a punt. The ball contacted Weeks and bounded past him. Flynn of Minnesota recovered the ball and ran for a touchdown, only the second touchdown scored against Michigan since Fielding Yost took over as head coach in 1901. Michigan's leading scorer, Albert Herrnstein, was pulled from the game in the second half due to an injury.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6
The Detroit Free Press described Herrnstein's removal from his final game for Michigan as follows: "He had been laid out a number of times, but refused to quit the game until he was unable to stand. Then, crying, he was dragged off the field by trainer Keene Fitzpatrick." On its next drive, Michigan was stopped at Minnesota's 25-yard line, and Sweeley kicked a field goal for five points to give the Wolverines a 17–6 lead. Sweeley's field goal was converted from a difficult angle, and its success "set the rooters wild." Later in the game, Heston scored the game's final touchdown on a run from the 35-yard line, as he hurdled over a Minnesota tackler. Sweeley added the goal after touchdown to give Michigan the win at 23–6. With the win, Michigan completed its second consecutive perfect season under Fielding Yost.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 23, Minnesota 6
The game was played in equal halves of 35 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup was Redden (left end), Cole (left tackle), McGugin (left guard), Gregory (center), Carter (right guard), Maddock (right tackle), Sweeley (right end), Weeks (quarterback), Heston (left halfback), Herrnstein (right halfback) and Graver (fullback).


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason
The 1902 Michigan football team won Michigan's second consecutive western football championship. Although there was no mechanism in place at the time for the selection of a national champion, the 1902 Wolverines have been recognized as the national championship team by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. The team finished the season undefeated and untied, having prevailed in all eleven of their games by a combined score of 644 to 12. The 1902 squad was the second of five consecutive high-scoring teams that came to be known as Coach Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams. From 1901 to 1905, Yost's teams compiled a record of 55–1–1 and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 2,821 to 42.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason
Team captain and quarterback Boss Weeks wrote a review of the 1902 season for the 1903 yearbook, the Michiganensian. Weeks opened his review as follows: "The story of the football season of 1902 is easily told. Champions of the West, with no one to dispute it." In the same publication, Fielding Yost published a 15-point essay entitled, "Why Michigan Is Great." Some of Yost's points included the following:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason
"First. Speed. Both as a team and in the individual players, Michigan was speedy. ...Second. Knowledge of the Game. All of the Michigan players were well versed in the fundamental principles of the game in every department. ... Third. Endurance. the men are of wonderful endurance. This is much due to their fine training ...Fourth. Spirit. Among the players there is the finest of fellow-feeling. The men's love of the game had helped give them the proper spirit. They have the desire to win -- the spirit of fighters.Fifth. Team Work. Michigan's team work has been wonderful. ... Seventh. Weight.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason
Michigan had a well-balanced team. The average was 182 pounds very equally distributed. But one man weighed over 200 pounds (Carter) and but one less than 170 pounds (Weeks at quarterback).Eighth. Style of Attack. Michigan varied her onslaughts very much, depending largely upon the style of defense used by the team opposing it. Every man on the team was used to carry the ball, thus distributing the work.Ninth. Generalship. Captain Weeks deserves great credit for Michigan's success. As a leader of forces and strategist I believe he has no equal on the gridiron today. ...Tenth. Punting.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason
In Sweeley, Michigan has one of the greatest kickers in the country. Never has he had a kick blocked in his four years' play at Michigan. ... Twelfth. Defense. Michigan's defensive playing has been wonderful. No team was able to cross Michigan's goal on straight football in the last two years ... Fifteenth. Met All Teams. Michigan's schedule was far harder than that usually arranged for a team. She played five state universities and all the strong Western teams."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Awards and honors
Several players received postseason honors:Joseph Maddock, Willie Heston, and captain Boss Weeks were selected All-America by the Newark Advocate. Weeks made Casper Whitney's second team. Maddock, Heston, Weeks, Everett Sweeley Paul J. Jones, Curtis Redden, and Dan McGugin all made All-Western.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Popularity of football on campus
With the success of Yost's football team, football enjoyed a surge of popularity on Michigan's campus in 1902. Even the student literary magazine, The Inlander, which usually filled its pages with poems, short stories, and essays by students, gave its entire December 1902 issue to a celebration of the football team. The special issue featured a photograph of Yost on the cover and included all manner of facts and figures on the popular team. Noting the popularity of the sport with Michigan's female students, Detroit Free Press in November 1902 wrote about the spectators in attendance at Michigan's home game against Minnesota:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Postseason, Popularity of football on campus
"But the dominant note of the gathering was the girl. She was there in every type and style, in every section of the stands and on every row. There was the college girl and the town girl, sweater girl and gown girl. And whatever type of girl she was elsewhere, she was always the Michigan girl."


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Depth chart
The following chart provides a visual depiction of Michigan's lineup during the 1902 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics Yost's short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners
The following 14 players received varsity "M" letters for their participation on the 1902 football team:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, 1902 players who became coaches
Fielding Yost earned a reputation as an innovator of the sport. His "Point-a-Minute" teams at Michigan compiled an overall record of 43-0-1 from 1901 to 1905 and outscored their opponents 2,326 to 40. The unprecedented performance of these teams created a demand for Yost's players, known as the "Yost-men", to serve as head coaches at other schools. Ten of the 14 lettermen on Yost's 1902 team became college football head coaches.


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, 1902 players who became coaches
Dan McGugin, who played left guard for the 1902 team, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as head coach at Vanderbilt from 1904 to 1934. And end/tackle William C. "King" Cole led the Nebraska Cornhuskers to two Missouri Valley Conference championships. The 1902 Michigan players who went on to head coaching positions are:


1902 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Scoring leaders
The following chart accounts for the 644 points scored by the 1902 football team and is based on the box scores published in 1902 by the Detroit Free Press" and The Michigan Alumnus.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election
The 1902 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Aaron T. Bliss defeated Democratic candidate Lorenzo T. Durand with 52.52% of the vote.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
Incumbent Governor Aaron T. Bliss was re-nominated with the first ballot at the 1902 Republican convention on June 26 in Detroit. Bliss received 811 votes on the ballot and Justus Smith Stearns received 214. Another 62 votes were split among candidates named Horton and Patton. They receiving 40 and 22 votes respectively.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
Initially, during the 1902 Michigan Democratic Convention on July 31 in Detroit, George H. Durand was nominated for the gubernatorial election. Former congressman Timothy E. Tarsney was the first to nominate him. The convention was divided by the issue of bimetallism, with some Democrats supporting the policy of free silver, and some supporting the use of the gold standard. Durand supported the gold standard, but was eventually agreed upon between the factions.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
After four ballots, Durand was unanimously nominated by the convention, and the leader of the free silver faction, State Senator James W. Helme Jr. who had competed for Durand for nomination, threw his support behind Durand as well. Durand was not present at the convention, and had been removed from political life for around six years at the time of his nomination. Durand would go on to accept the nomination. The platform adopted by the convention focused on state issues, and criticized the Republican controlled state administration for perceived corruption and incompetency.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
In early September, Durand suffered a paralyzing stroke due to a cerebral embolism. Though he initially planned to continue his gubernatorial run, by September 25, Durand's health forced him to withdraw his candidacy. Bimetallism continued to be a dividing issue in seeking a new candidate for governor. The silver faction of the party wanted to reconvene the convention to decide on another nominee, but the gold faction wanted to have the Democratic state central committee vote on a replacement. On September 30, after three hours of debate, the committee voted to fill the vacancy. Lorenzo T. Durand, the brother of George and fellow advocate of the gold standard, was selected with 14 votes on the second formal ballot. Charles R. Sligh, representing the silver faction of the party, got 10 votes on that ballot. Lorenzo's nomination was made unanimous with a third ballot.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Prohibitionist Party nomination
On August 8, Walter S. Westerman of Adrain was nominated by the 1902 Prohibitionist state convention in Detroit.


1902 Michigan gubernatorial election, Nominations, Socialist Party nomination
On March 1, the Socialist  state convention in Flint had an attendance of nine delegates. William E. Walter of Detroit was nominated for governor.


1902 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1902 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their third year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 9–2–1 record (3–1 against Western Conference opponents), finished in third place in the conference, shut out nine of their twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 335 to 34. The Gophers' 102 points against Grinnell on November 1, was the largest point total to that date in the program's history and the first time a Minnesota team scored 100 or more points.


1902 Minnesota Senate election
The 1902 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 4, 1902, to elect members to the Senate of the 33rd and 34th Minnesota Legislatures.


1902 Minnesota Senate election
Two years after Democrat John Lind lost the governorship to Republican Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, the Minnesota Democratic Party was set to lose seats in the Senate. Without Lind, the Party lost the third party support that they had consolidated in 1898. The People's Party ran candidates against a handful of Democratic candidates in rural areas, hurting Democratic prospects.


1902 Minnesota Senate election
The Minnesota Republican Party won a large majority of seats, followed by the Minnesota Democratic Party. The new Legislature convened on January 6, 1903.


1902 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1902 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1902. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Samuel Rinnah Van Sant defeated Democratic Party of Minnesota challenger Leonard A. Rosing.


1902 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1902 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1902. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Ray W. Jones of the Republican Party of Minnesota defeated Minnesota Democratic Party challenger Robert A. Smith.


1902 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team
The 1902 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.


1902 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1902 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team compiled a 5-3 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 99 to 80. Pat O'Dea was the head coach for the first and only season. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.


1902 Montana Agricultural football team
The 1902 Montana Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach J. E. Flynn, the team compiled a 4–0–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 94 to 22. With two victories over the Montana School of Mines and a 38–0 victory on Thanksgiving Day over the University of Montana, the Agricultural College was declared to be the champion of Montana.


1902 Montana football team
The 1902 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1902 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dewitt Peck, and finished the season with a record of zero wins and two losses (0–2).


1902 NYU Violets football team
The 1902 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year under head coach W. H. Rorke, the team compiled a 5–3 record.


1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team
The 1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the University of Nashville during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by Neil Snow. Transylvania's W. Yancey ran for two 80-yard touchdowns.


1902 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team
After the season, Snow resigned never to coach again, accepting a construction position in New York.


1902 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1902 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1902 college football season. In their second season under head coach Art Hillebrand, the Midshipmen compiled a 2–7–1 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined score of 99 to 35.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1902 college football season. The team was coached by third-year head coach Walter C. Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as an independent.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
NU compiled a 9–0 record and shut out every opponent by a combined score of 164–0. NU's hopes to be considered the Western Champion were dashed when 11–0 Michigan was selected instead selected following their season-ending 23–6 win over Minnesota (Nebraska defeated the Gophers 6–0). Believing Michigan's membership in the Big Nine Conference elevated its title chance, Nebraska applied to the conference following the season, but the application was denied on account of Lincoln's distance from other schools in the Big Nine. Nebraska would ultimately join the conference over 100 years later.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
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1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Lincoln High
For the fourth consecutive season, NU opened the year with an exhibition game against Lincoln High School.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, at Colorado
Nebraska met Colorado for the second time in Boulder. A touchdown in each half and a stiff defensive effort secured Nebraska's third straight shutout victory.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Grinnell
Nebraska was shorthanded due to injury, but the Cornhuskers posted another shutout victory on a rainy day in Lincoln.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
Nebraska traveled to Minneapolis to face the Gophers for a third time. The game remained scoreless until the final minutes, when the Cornhuskers scored a touchdown for what would be the only points of the day. Minnesota lost only one other game the rest of the season, outscoring its opponents 335–34.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Meeting Missouri on new neutral ground, in St. Joseph for the first time, the Cornhuskers ended an early scoring attempt by Missouri at the Nebraska 7-yard line, and then shut down the Tigers for the rest of the day, while making two touchdowns of their own to extend the shutout streak to 6, and the series lead to 8-3.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Nebraska ran its shutout streak to seven consecutive games, thanks in part to a "trick placekick", that was instead run for a touchdown.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Knox
Nebraska hosted Knox in the first game between the teams, in what would become one of only two one-score game NU played all season. Knox held Nebraska to just seven points, but the Cornhuskers made a goal-line stand in the second half to record an eighth consecutive shutout.


1902 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern
Nebraska met Northwestern in the first matchup between teams that would become division rivals over 100 years later when NU joined the Big Ten. Northwestern players complained of rough treatment from NU throughout the penalty-ridden game. Nebraska was penalized for seven holding penalties, each of which required turning over the ball according to the rules of the time, but held Northwestern scoreless for a ninth straight shutout win to end the season with a perfect record.


1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election
The 1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902.


1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Ezra P. Savage did not stand for re-election.


1902 Nebraska gubernatorial election
Republican nominee John H. Mickey defeated Democratic and Populist fusion nominee William Henry Thompson with 49.69% of the vote.


1902 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Overview
It was contested by 5 teams, and Budapesti TC won the championship.


1902 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team
The 1902 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the University of Nevada, Reno) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its second season under head coach Allen Steckle, the team compiled a 1–2 record. W. A. "Art" Keddie and B.B. Smith were assistant coaches.


1902 Nevada gubernatorial election
The 1902 Nevada gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. The Silver Party nominee "Honest" John Sparks defeated Republican nominee Abner Coburn Cleveland, with 6,540 votes to his opponents 4,778. He succeeded fellow Silver Party Governor Reinhold Sadler in office.


1902 Nevada gubernatorial election, General election
Unlike in 1898, when Silver Party Governor Reinhold Sadler faced off against Republican, Democratic, and Populist candidates, the state Democratic Party, the Populists, and the state Silver Party had essentially merged into one electoral vehicle (reflected in William Jennings Bryan's landslide victory in the state two years prior in the 1896 Presidential election, only four years after a Populist landslide). Cattleman John Sparks won and become the third of four Silver Party governor in a row.


1902 Nevada gubernatorial election, General election
Republican nominee A. C. Cleveland would die the following year, in 1903, and Sparks himself would die a year before his second term ended, in 1908.


1902 New Hampshire football team
The 1902 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1902 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team finished with a record of 2–3–1, under direction of the program's first head coach, John Scannell.


1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
Scoring during this era awarded five points for a touchdown, one point for a conversion kick (extra point), and five points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.


1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
The New Hampshire College Monthly is clear that the Boston College game was played on Saturday, October 25, in Dover; College Football Data Warehouse and the University's media guide list the game as having been played on October 24 in Durham.


1902 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
In addition to the varsity games listed above, New Hampshire's second team (reserves) lost to the Exeter Academy second team, 5–0, and defeated a team of Exeter Academy seniors, 32–6.


1902 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 1902 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Republican nominee Nahum J. Bachelder defeated Democratic nominee Henry F. Hollis with 53.19% of the vote.


1902 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The 1902 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1902 college football season. In their third year under head coach John O. Miller, the Aggies compiled a 0–1–2 record and were outscored by a total of 6 to 0. The team played its home games on College Field, later renamed Miller Field in honor of coach Miller.


1902 New York Giants season
The 1902 New York Giants season was the franchise's 20th season. The team finished with a 48–88 record, in eighth and last place in the National League, 53+1⁄2 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. Their .353 winning percentage remains the worst in franchise history. At the end of September, owner Andrew Freedman left baseball, with John T. Brush taking over as majority owner and team president.


1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 New York state election
The 1902 New York state election was held on November 4, 1902, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.


1902 New York state election, History
The "Liberal Democratic" state convention met at Cooper Union in Manhattan. This party was composed of Bryan Democrats, Chicago Platform Democrats and former Populists which were fiercely opposed to Democratic boss David B. Hill. Judge Samuel Seabury was Permanent Chairman.


1902 New York state election, History
They nominated Edgar L. Ryder for Governor; J. C. Corbin, of St. Lawrence County, for Lieutenant Governor; John B. Howarth, of Buffalo, for Secretary of State; De Myre S. Fero for Comptroller; Daniel B. Casley, of Westchester County, for Treasurer; Dennis Spellissey, of New York City, for Attorney General; John E. Dugan, of Albany County, for State Engineer; and Robert Stewart, of Brooklyn, for the Court of Appeals.


1902 New York state election, History
The Social Democratic state convention met on July 4 at 64, East Fourth Street in Manhattan. They nominated Benjamin Hanford for Governor; William Thurston Brown, of Rochester, for Lieutenant Governor; Leonard D. Abbott for Secretary of State; Gen. Lawrence Mayes, of New York City, for Attorney General; Warren Atkinson, of Brooklyn, for Comptroller; Joel Moses, of Rochester, for Treasurer; Everitt Holmes, of Peekskill, for State Engineer; and John F. Clarke, of New York City, for the Court of Appeals.


1902 New York state election, History
The Socialist Labor state convention met on August 30 at Utica, New York.


1902 New York state election, History
The Prohibition state convention met on September 5 at Saratoga, New York. Alfred L. Manierre, of New York City, was Temporary Chairman until the choice of Alphonso A. Hopkins as Permanent Chairman. They nominated Manierre for Governor; Alfred A. Hartman, of Albion, for Lieutenant Governor; Alden W. Young, of Oswego, for Secretary of State; Samuel Mitchell, of Hornellsville, for Treasurer; James McNeil, of Hudson, for Comptroller; Emmett F. Smith for State Engineer; Erwin J. Baldwin, of Elmira, for the Court of Appeals; and endorsed Democrat John Cunneen for Attorney General.


1902 New York state election, History
The Republican state convention met on September 23 and 24 at Saratoga, New York. Timothy E. Ellsworth was Permanent Chairman. Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., was re-nominated after a roll call in which all votes were cast for him. All other state officers were nominated by acclamation.


1902 New York state election, History
The Democratic state convention met on September 30 and October 1 at Saratoga, New York. Martin W. Littleton was Permanent Chairman.


1902 New York state election, Result
Six Republicans and two Democrats were elected in a tight race.


1902 New York state election, Result
28 Republicans and 22 Democrats were elected to a two-year term (1903–04) in the New York State Senate.


1902 New York state election, Result
89 Republicans and 61 Democrats were elected for the session of 1903 to the New York State Assembly.


1902 New York state election, Result
The Republican, Democratic, Social Democratic, Prohibition and Socialist Labor parties maintained automatic ballot status (necessary 10,000 votes for Governor).


1902 New York state election, Result
Obs. : "Blank and scattering" votes: 8,901 (Judge), 8,737 (Attorney), 6,632 (Governor)


1902 New Zealand general election
The New Zealand general election of 1902 was held on Tuesday, 25 November, in the general electorates, and on Monday, 22 December in the Māori electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 15th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 415,789 (76.7%) voters turned out to vote.


1902 New Zealand general election
The Rev Frank Isitt was nominated as the Prohibitionist candidate for ten separate electorates, and came second in eight. Another candidate, David Whyte, was nominated for two. Both men stood to ensure that a local liquor licensing poll was held in each electorate for which they were nominated.


1902 New Zealand general election, 1902 electoral redistribution
The Representation Act 1900 had increased the membership of the House of Representatives from general electorates 70 to 76, and this was implemented through the 1902 electoral redistribution. In 1902, changes to the country quota affected the three-member electorates in the four main centres. The tolerance between electorates was increased to ±1,250 so that the Representation Commissions (since 1896, there had been separate commissions for the North and South Islands) could take greater account of communities of interest. These changes proved very disruptive to existing boundaries. Six electorates were established for the first time: Courtenay, Newtown, Grey Lynn , Hurunui, Oroua, and Kaipara. Two electorates that previously existed were re-established: Mount Ida and Hutt.


1902 New Zealand general election, 1902 electoral redistribution
This boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of three electorates:


1902 New Zealand general election, Results
Frank Isitt, a Methodist minister, stood in ten seats as a Prohibition candidate, and came second in eight.


1902 New Zealand general election, Results, Party totals
The following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the 1905 election.


1902 New Zealand general election, Electorate results
The following are the results of the 1902 general election:


1902 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team
The 1902 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1902 college football season. In Art Devlin's first season as head coach, the Aggies improved to a 3–4–2 record, outscoring their opponents 91 to 41.


1902 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1902 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1902 college football season.


1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a 4–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 168 to 0.


1902 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team
The season was part of a three-year, 17-game winning streak that began on November 19, 1900, and ended on November 21, 1903.


1902 North Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1902 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Frank White defeated Democratic nominee J. Cronan with 62.68% of the vote.


1902 North Kilkenny by-election
The 1902 North Kilkenny by-election was held on 26 February 1902 after resignation of the incumbent MP Patrick McDermott of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The IPP's candidate Joseph Devlin was unopposed and so was returned as the MP.


1902 North-West Territories general election
The 1902 North-West Territories general election, occurred on 21 May 1902 and was the fifth general election in the history of the North-West Territories, Canada. It was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories. This was the  last election held until 1951, and was the last in the Northwest Territories (NWT) to have political parties.


1902 North-West Territories general election
Frederick W. A. G. Haultain and the Liberal-Conservatives continued with government. Donald H. McDonald was thrust into being the Liberal leader just days before the vote, with the surprise decision by Robert Brett to drop out of the race.


1902 North-West Territories general election
In 1905, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created out of North-West Territories, and they took most of the voting population with them. The government of NWT reverted to an appointed consensus model of government.


1902 North-West Territories general election
Candidates in this election were not nominated by the party in a contested nomination as with modern elections, but rather proclaimed their support for the governing party or opposition party, or Independent. During the election race some candidates shifted their alignment. The result was a confusing mess, and the bulk of candidates proclaimed support for the already governing Liberal-Conservative party, leaving the Liberals without candidates in many districts. Lethbridge ended up being contested by two government supporting candidates.


1902 North-West Territories general election
1902 would also see the largest number of MLAs elected to the North-West Territories Legislature in the territories' history.


1902 North-West Territories general election, Members of the Legislative Assembly elected
Note:* Sources are conflicted on Richard Bennett as to whether he was a Liberal or Independent


1902 Northern Illinois State Normal football team
The 1902 Northern Illinois State Normal football team represented Northern Illinois State Normal College as an independent in the 1902 college football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach John A. H. Keith. The team finished the season with a 5–1–1 record. Sanford Givens was the team's captain.


1902 Northwestern Purple football team
The 1902 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In its fourth season under head coach Charles M. Hollister, the team compiled a 6–6 record (0–4 against Western Conference opponents), won its first five-game before losing six of seven games, and finished in a tie for last place in the Western Conference.


1902 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1902 Norwegian Football Cup was the first season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. This was an invitation tournament organised by Kristiania IF and NFF, which was later given official status. Five teams joined this competition, and Odd reached the final without playing a match. Grane won the tournament.


1902 Notre Dame football team
The 1902 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1902 college football season. In its first season with James Farragher as coach, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 203 to 51. Against Indiana, Notre Dame became the first team to defeat the Hoosiers on Jordan Field, a 17-game stretch that started with the field's renaming in 1898. Indiana's full home win streak extended to 23 games.


1902 Ohio Medical football team
The 1902 Ohio Medical football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio State University College of Medicine in the 1902 college football season. The medics compiled an impressive 9–1 record, shutting out eight opponents, and outscoring them 252 to 11. Their sole loss was against Notre Dame, who won by a single point, 6 to 5.


1902 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1902 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University during the 1902 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 6–2–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 172 to 136 in their first season under head coach Perry Hale.


1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team
The 1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1902 college football season. This was the second year of football at A&M and the team did not have a head coach. The Aggies played their home games in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. The Aggies only played one game in the 1902 season, a 40-0 victory over the Central State Normal School club. This was A&M's first undefeated season.


1902 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team
NOTE: The 2016 Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Guide states that the college did not field an official team in 1902.


1902 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1902 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1902 college football season. In their first year under head coach Mark McMahon, the Sooners compiled a 6–3 record, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 175 to 60.


1902 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1902 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.


1902 Ontario general election
The 1902 Ontario general election was the tenth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on May 29, 1902, to elect the 98 Members of the 10th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").


1902 Ontario general election
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Sir George William Ross, formed the government for a ninth consecutive term, although with only a very slim, two-seat majority in the Legislature.


1902 Ontario general election
The Ontario Conservative Party, led by Sir James P. Whitney formed the official opposition.


1902 Ontario general election, Notable candidates
Margaret Haile, a Canadian Socialist League candidate in Toronto North, made history as the first woman ever to run for political office in Canada.


1902 Ontario general election, Further reading
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1902 Ontario prohibition referendum
An Ontario prohibition referendum was held on December 4, 1902, under the Liquor Act, on the legality of alcoholic beverages and the implementation of prohibition in the province. Though the referendum passed, a majority of half of the voters in the 1898 election did not support the motion and prohibition was not introduced.


1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Referendum question
Are you in favour of bringing into force Part II of The Liquor Act, 1902?


1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Referendum question
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had previously ruled in 1896 that provinces do not have the authority to prohibit the importation of alcohol. Part II of the Liquor Act would authorize prohibition to the extent that Ontario would be allowed to enact, specifically a ban on the sale of alcohol in bars and retail establishments and the placement of restrictions on the sale of alcohol in restaurants.


1902 Ontario prohibition referendum, Results
Part II of the Liquor Act required (1) a majority of votes in the referendum and (2) more than half of the number of votes in the 1898 election to pass the legislation; the second requirement was not met. The turnout rate was estimated to be no more than 30 percent of the electorate, and prohibition was not adopted.


1902 Open Championship
The 1902 Open Championship was the 42nd Open Championship, held 4–5 June at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. Sandy Herd won the Championship, a stroke ahead of runners-up James Braid and Harry Vardon.


1902 Open Championship
All entries played 36 holes on the first day with all those within 19 strokes of the leader making the cut and playing 36 holes on the final day, with the additional provision that the final day's field had to contain at least 32 professionals.


1902 Open Championship
Vardon sliced his first two shots out of bounds at the 1st hole and took six, there being no penalty stroke for out of bounds at that time. However, he played the rest of the round so well that his score of 72 was four shots ahead of the second place Willie Fernie, the 1883 champion. Vardon again started badly in the afternoon but his 77 still gave him a four shot lead over Herd and Ted Ray. 45 players, including nine amateurs, made the cut on 168.


1902 Open Championship
The next morning, Herd shot 73, four strokes better than anyone else. This gave him a three stroke lead over Vardon who had taken 80. Braid, J.H. Taylor and Tom Vardon were in third place, eight strokes behind Herd.


1902 Open Championship
Herd started his final round well but took six at the 8th and 9th holes and then 5 at the short 11th. Another shot was dropped at the short 13th and he eventually finished in 81. Harry Vardon took six at the 3rd and 8th but then rallied and needed a four at the last to tie with Herd. However, he three putted to finish a shot behind. Braid was the final player with a change to match Herd. Reaching the turn in 40, the same as Herd, he need to come back in 33 to tie. He had a putt at the last to tie but missed to finish in a tie for second place with Vardon. The amateur Robert Maxwell matched Braid's 74 to finish in fourth place, the only player under 80 in all four rounds.


1902 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1902 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fred Herbold, the Aggies compiled a 4–1–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 157 to 16. The Aggies defeated Willamette (two games, 67-0 and 21-0), McMinnville High School (33-0), and Pacific University (31-0), lost to Washington (5-16), and tied with Oregon (0-0). John Gault was the team captain.


1902 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1902 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the 1902 college football season. It was the Webfoots' ninth season, and they competed as an independent. They were led by head coach Marion Dolph, and they finished the season with a record of three wins, one loss and three ties (3–1–3).


1902 Oregon gubernatorial election
The 1902 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on June 2, 1902 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The election matched Republican W. J. Furnish against Democrat George Earle Chamberlain.


1902 Oregon gubernatorial election
The Republican Party nominating convention was held on April 2, 1906. Incumbent governor Theodore Thurston Geer and C. A. Johns of Baker City had withdrawn their candidacy, and mayor of Pendleton W. J. Furnish was nominated on the first ballot against H. E. Ankeny of Jackson County.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election
Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In the Scottish Parliament, Orkney and Shetland are separate constituencies.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election
The Orkney and Shetland by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP)  to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Vacancy
Cathcart Wason had been Liberal Unionist MP for the seat of Orkney and Shetland since 1900. In July 1902, he decided to cross the floor of the House to sit with the Liberal opposition. Leaving the Liberal Unionist Party, he cited Government policy on the army, the Education Bill and the Irish land question. He faced criticism from the Unionists in his constituency and following pressure, he resigned his seat on 7 October 1902 to contest the subsequent by-election.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Electoral history
Since 1885, the seat had been always comfortably returned the Liberal Party candidate. Then the seat was surprisingly gained by Wason; albeit with a narrow majority of forty votes, standing as a Liberal Unionist in 1900.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Campaign
Polling Days were fixed for the 18–19 November 1902, over five weeks after Wason's resignation.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Result
Wason remarkably held his seat, with an increased majority of 411 votes.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Result
Immediately following his re-election, Wason re-took the Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons.


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Aftermath
By the time of the 1906 general election, Wason had been fully integrated with the local Liberal Party and was re-elected as their official candidate;


1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election, Aftermath
McKinnon Wood was elected Liberal MP for Glasgow St Rollox at the 1906 general election. Angier was knighted in 1904 and contested unsuccessfully, Gateshead at the 1906 general election.


1902 Paris–Roubaix
The 1902 Paris–Roubaix was the seventh edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 30 March 1902 and stretched 268 km (167 mi) from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was Lucien Lesna from France.


1902 Penn Quakers football team
The 1902 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1902 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–4 record in their first year under head coach Carl S. Williams. Significant games included victories over Penn State (17–0), Columbia (17–0), and Cornell (12–11), and losses to Navy (10–6), Harvard (11–0), and Carlisle (5–9). The 1902 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 157 to 68. Three Penn players received recognition on the 1902 College Football All-America Team: end Sol Metzger (Walter Camp, 3rd team); tackle Robert Torrey (Caspar Whitney, 2nd team); and center James F. McCabe (Camp, 3rd team).


1902 Penn State football team
The 1902 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College—now known as Pennsylvania State University–as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team was coached by Pop Golden and played its home games in Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.


1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
The 1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on November 4, 1902. Republican candidate Samuel W. Pennypacker defeated Democratic candidate and former Governor Robert E. Pattison to become Governor of Pennsylvania.


1902 Philadelphia Athletics (NFL) season
The 1902 Philadelphia Athletics football season  was their first season in existence. The team played in the first National Football League and finished with an overall record of 10-2-2, including a 3-2-1 record in league play. The team claimed to have won the league championship, however the Pittsburgh Stars were given the title for having a better point ratio, scoring 39 points to their NFL opponents' 22.


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season
The 1902 Philadelphia Athletics season was a season in American baseball. The team finished first in the American League with a record of 83 wins and 53 losses.


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Regular season
In 1902, the Philadelphia Phillies obtained an injunction, effective only in Pennsylvania, barring Athletics' second baseman Nap Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. Lajoie had played for the Athletics in 1901, and appeared in just one game in 1902 before the injunction went into effect. The American League responded by transferring Lajoie's contract to the Cleveland Bronchos, who were subsequently known as the "Naps" in Lajoie's honor for several seasons.


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Philadelphia Phillies (NFL) season
The 1902 Philadelphia Phillies football season  was their second season in existence. This season the team, was sponsored by the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Club and played in the first National Football League. The team finished with an overall record of 8-3, including a 2-3 record in league play to finish third in the standings.


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season
The 1902 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 56–81, 46 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season
In 1902, the Phillies obtained an injunction, effective only in Pennsylvania, barring Nap Lajoie from playing baseball for any team other than the Phillies. The American League responded by transferring Lajoie's contract to the Cleveland Indians, then known as the Bronchos and subsequently renamed the "Naps" in Lajoie's honor for several seasons.


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Pittsburgh College football team
The 1902 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost—now known as Duquesne University—during the 1902 college football season.


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates won a second straight National League pennant, by an overwhelming 27.5 game margin over the Brooklyn Superbas. It was the Pirates' first ever 100-win team, and still holds the franchise record for best winning percentage at home (.789). The team finished with a league-best record of 103-36.


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season
Ginger Beaumont won the batting title with a .357 mark, Tommy Leach led the league in home runs with 6  (a major league record for fewest HRs to lead the league), Honus Wagner led the league in RBI with 91, and Jack Chesbro led the league with 28 wins. As a team, the Pirates led the league in every significant batting category, the last time that has been done in the NL. They scored 775 runs, which was 142 more than any other team.


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The team allowed four home runs during their 1902 season, the fewest in MLB history.


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Pittsburgh Stars season
The 1902 Pittsburgh Stars football season  was their first and only season in existence. The team played in the first National Football League and finished with an overall record of 9-2-1, including a 2-2-1 record in league play. The team was named the league's champions for having a better point ratio, scoring 39 points to their NFL opponents' 22.


1902 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1902 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Garrett Cochran. The Tigers won their first eight games, including seven shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a total of 164 to 17. The team's only loss was in the last game of the season by a 12–5 score against Yale. Princeton guard John DeWitt, who later won the silver medal in the hammer throw at the 1904 Summer Olympics, was selected as a consensus first-team honoree on the 1902 College Football All-America Team.


1902 Puerto Rican general election
General elections were held in Puerto Rico in 1902. Since they were held under the colonial rule of the United States, only municipalities were able to democratically elect their representation.


1902 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 1902 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Charles Best, the Boilermakers compiled a 7–2–1 record, finished in fifth place in the Western Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 315 to 68. Harry G. Leslie was the team captain.


1902 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 March 1902 to elect the members of the state's Legislative Assembly.


1902 Queensland state election, Key dates
This was the first Queensland general election to be conducted on a single day. In the past, due to problems of distance and communications, it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day.


1902 Queensland state election, Results
Queensland state election, 11 March 1902Legislative Assembly << 1899–1904 >>


1902 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1902 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Democratic nominee Lucius F. C. Garvin defeated incumbent Republican Charles D. Kimball with 53.99% of the vote.


1902 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1902 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by Graham Hobson in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 3–3.


1902 Rose Bowl
Originally titled the "Tournament East–West football game," what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.


1902 Rose Bowl
The inaugural game featured Fielding H. Yost's dominating 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team, representing the East, who crushed a 3–1–2 team from Stanford University, representing the West, by a score of 49–0 after Stanford captain Ralph Fisher requested to quit with eight minutes remaining. Michigan finished the season 11–0 and was considered a national champion. Yost had been Stanford's coach the previous year.


1902 Rose Bowl, Organization of the game
The Tournament of Roses Parade began in 1890 as a New Year's Day tradition in the City of Pasadena. The city boosters were exploring a way to bring in tourism and money to the area. The Tournament of Roses Association president, James Wagner, guaranteed $3,500 to cover the expenses of bringing the football teams of the University of Michigan and Stanford University to Pasadena to play. The admission price was 50 cents to $1 to see the game. An additional $1 would be charged to admit a family's horse and buggy to the grounds.


1902 Rose Bowl, Organization of the game
The game was played in Tournament Park, where temporary stands were built. The officials were David Brown, referee (a graduate of Stanford and a former football manager); W. K. Peasley, umpire (a graduate of Williams); Phil Wilson, head linesman (a graduate of Stanford and former player) and C. G. Roe, linesman; Jack Sheehan (a graduate of Stanford) and H. K. Crafts, timers. The game kicked off at 2:30 o'clock sharp at the park on the corner of California Street and Wilson Avenue in Pasadena.


1902 Rose Bowl, Tournament Park
Before the Rose Bowl stadium was built for the 1923 Rose Bowl, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles southeast of the current stadium. Tournament Park is now a private park maintained by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. It was simply known as the "town lot" before being renamed Tournament Park in 1900.


1902 Rose Bowl, Teams
Stanford had played the Olympic Club and Reliance Club twice, beating and tying each. They beat Nevada, 12–0, then lost to Cal in the eleventh Big Game, 2–0.


1902 Rose Bowl, Teams
The 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team was nicknamed the "Point-a-Minute" team when they came to Pasadena to play the game. The Wolverines had racked up 501 points while allowing their opponents no points at all. The 49 points they scored in the 1902 Rose Bowl game brought their season total to 550 to 0.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
The game was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. But, on New Year's Day 1916 football returned to stay as Washington State University defeated Brown University in the first annual Tournament of Roses football game. At Stanford, rugby replaced football from the 1906 season through the 1917 season.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
In record keeping, Neil Snow's five touchdowns are noted along with the "modern" Rose Bowl record of four touchdowns held by Eric Ball, Sam Cunningham, and Ron Dayne. Snow was named the Most Valuable Player of the game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
The initial attendance has varied according to different sources. The ESPN BCS article lists the attendance as 8,500. The Michigan football media guide and Michigan articles list the attendance as 8,000. The Official 2007 NCAA Division I football records book lists the attendance at 8,000.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Tournament Park would be the site for the second to eighth Rose Bowl Games from 1916 to 1922 before the Rose Bowl stadium opened for the 1923 Rose Bowl.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
As of 2016, Stanford has appeared in the Rose Bowl 15 times, third most, and Michigan has appeared 20 times, second most.


1902 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Stanford would make their next bowl appearance in 1925, the 1925 Rose Bowl. Michigan's next bowl game was in the 1948 Rose Bowl.


1902 Rosenska Pokalen
Rosenska Pokalen 1902, part of the 1902 Swedish football season, was the fourth Rosenska Pokalen tournament played. 16 teams participated and 15 matches were played, the first 14 August 1902 and the last 7 September 1902. Gefle IF won the tournament ahead of runners-up Djurgårdens IF.


1902 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1902 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1902 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Henry Van Hoevenberg, the Queensmen compiled a 3–7 record and were outscored by their opponents, 188 to 42. The team captain was Alfred Ellet Hitchner.


1902 SAFA Grand Final
The 1902 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat South Adelaide 68 to 31.


1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background
During the 1902 season Port Adelaide finished the minor round on the top of the SAFA league ladder. Under the new Argus finals system in place, Port Adelaide would have had the right to challenge the winner of the major round to a grand final for the premiership.


1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background
However, Port Adelaide disputed the use of umpire Mr Kneebone for its semi-final game against South Adelaide as he was not credited at the beginning of the season, not appointed according to procedure, and that the club had been dissatisfied with his performances in previous years. Subsequently, Port Adelaide abandoned the match in protest. The association subsequently disqualified Port Adelaide from the remainder of the season, stripping it of its challenge right.


1902 SAFA Grand Final, Background
As such, the Grand Final was played between first semi-final winners North Adelaide, and Port Adelaide's second semi-final opponent South Adelaide.


1902 SAFA season
The 1902 South Australian Football Association season was the 26th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1902 SAFA season
The 1902 premiership was won by the North Adelaide Football Club for the second time. Minor premier Port Adelaide was disqualified from the Finals and relegated to third overall after refusing to play the second semi-final against South Adelaide due to a dispute over the umpire chosen. Sturt, in its second season, received its second consecutive wooden spoon.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series
After three seasons of using major round systems involving all clubs, the SAFA adopted the Argus finals system involving only the top four teams for the first time.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final
The second semi-final was forfeited by Port Adelaide owing to its objection to the appointment of umpire Phil Kneebone to the match. South Adelaide played a hastily arranged exhibition match against North Adelaide to entertain the spectators who had turned up.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final
Kneebone had been an SAFA umpire up to the 1901 season, but had not returned in 1902. Late in the season, in response to a shortage of umpires, the SAFA umpire committee had made a resolution to extend an invitation to Kneebone, which Kneebone had declined. Still facing a shortage available first-rate for the second semi-final, the committee appointed Kneebone, which he this time accepted.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final
Port Adelaide objected to this on two grounds: procedural in that the committee had not passed a new resolution to invite or appoint Kneebone – the committee held that the previous resolution to invite had not lapsed, even though the invite itself had been rejected – and that the club was dissatisfied with Kneebone's performances in previous seasons. Port Adelaide advised the SAFA on the Saturday before the match of its intention to forfeit if Kneebone's appointment stood. The SAFA did not acquiesce, and on the day of the match, Port Adelaide formally forfeited in writing.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final
At the time of its forfeiture, Port Adelaide as minor premier was entitled to a challenge match for the premiership, irrespective of other major round results. However, in a special SAFA meeting on Wednesday 3 September, the association voted to disqualify Port Adelaide from the remainder of the season, stripping it of this right. At the same meeting, the association affirmed that Kneebone's appointment was not per procedure, finding that only the full association, not the umpire's committee, had the power to appoint a non-association umpire to the association. Kneebone went on to umpire the following week's Grand Final.


1902 SAFA season, Finals Series, Second Semi-final
At a separate meeting on 8 September, the formal matter of second place was discussed, with a conflict arising between the convention that the losing grand finalist (South Adelaide) be considered runners-up, but rule 29 stating that minor placings be decided on overall premiership points (Port Adelaide). The Association ruled South Adelaide be considered runners-up, relegating Port Adelaide to third. and


1902 Scottish Cup Final
The 1902 Scottish Cup Final was played on 26 April 1902 at Celtic Park in Glasgow and was the deciding match of the 29th season of the Scottish Cup. The match had been scheduled to be played at Ibrox Park on 12 April, but the first Ibrox disaster occurred the week earlier during the annual Scotland v England game. This meant that the final was delayed by two weeks and moved to Celtic Park, although Celtic were one of the finalists. Hibernian and Celtic contested the match. Hibernian won the match 1–0, by the 75th-minute goal from Andy McGeachan. This was Hibernian's last Scottish Cup triumph for 114 years until they finally won it again in 2016 after beating Rangers 3-2.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election
The 1902 Sevenoaks by-election was held on 21 August 1902 after the appointment of the incumbent Conservative MP Henry Forster as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. The seat was retained by Forster.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Vacancy
Under the provisions of the Succession to the Crown Act of 1707 and a number of subsequent Acts, MPs appointed to certain ministerial and legal offices were at this time required to seek re-election. The by-election in Sevenoaks was caused by the appointment on 8 August 1902 of the sitting Conservative MP, Henry Forster as Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Candidates
The incumbent, Henry Forster was the candidate for the Conservative party.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Candidates
Beaumont Morice was adopted as the Liberal Party candidate at a meeting of the Sevenoaks liberal council on 13 August 1902. Morice was Recorder of Hythe, and lived in Kent. He had unsuccessfully contested the Wells division of Somerset in 1892 and 1895.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Education
Following the successful campaign in the Leeds North by-election in July 1902, Morice spent much of the election on the government's plans for an Education Bill to replace school boards with local education authorities, which included proposals to bring church schools into the public system. Many Liberals were strongly nonconformist and the idea that Church of England and Roman Catholic schools should be funded from the rates, a form of local taxation, was anathema to them. It provided the battle slogan 'Rome on the Rates' and united the party against the government.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Education
In an address to the electorate, Morice argued that the government "had no mandate whatever to the destroy the School Board system of the country, which has worked with such splendid results for so many years." Forster and the Conservative party had not intended to spend much time on the education issue, but was forced to actively defend the proposal in various speeches. He argued to ″entrust all matters relating to secular education to the local education authorities″, stating it would be a "great improvement upon our present system". Two days before the election, the issue had rattled the governing Conservatives enough to provoke an open letter from the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour to Forster and his constituents, leading to a similar response from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal party leader.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues
Morice also raised the issue of the corn tax, stating that it was a "heavy and unnecessary burden on the working classes". Forster barely mentioned this issue, dismissing it as a small registration duty not worth discussing.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues
Forster used the recent peace following the Second Boer War in South Africa to mobilize government supporters, and argued that the work of reform and improvement should be entrusted to those who had been responsible for the Army and Navy during the last years.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Issues, Other issues
The Sevenoaks Licensed Victuallers' Association submitted questions to both candidates, and on 15 August unanimously resolved to support Forster. In response, the Liberals claimed to have the united support of the teetotal section of the electorate.


1902 Sevenoaks by-election, Result
Forster retained the seat by a 9% majority, but the Liberal party had an impressive increase of 24% from the previous election.


1902 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1902 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.


1902 Shaposhnikov
1902 Shaposhnikov (prov. designation: 1972 HU) is a dark Hilda asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 92 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 18 April 1972, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was named after Soviet astronomer and WWII casualty Vladimir Shaposhnikov. It was one of the last larger asteroids discovered in the main belt.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Orbit and characteristics
Shaposhnikov belongs to the dynamical Hilda group. Members of this group stay in a 3:2 orbital resonance with the gas giant Jupiter and are located in the outermost part of the asteroid belt. Shaposhnikov is, however, not a member of the collisional Hilda family (001) but a non-family asteroid of the background population when applying the Hierarchical Clustering Method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.1–4.8 AU once every 7 years and 11 months (2,884 days; semi-major axis of 3.97 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.22 and an inclination of 12° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as 1940 GK at Turku Observatory in April 1940, or 32 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nauchnyj.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Naming
This minor planet was named in honour of Vladimir Grigorevich Shaposhnikov (1905–1942), who worked at the Simeiz Observatory and was an expert in astrometry, before he was killed on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (M.P.C. 3936).


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics
In the Tholen classification, Shaposhnikov is an X-type asteroid, which encompasses the E, M and P-types. Since its albedo is known to be very low (see below), its spectral type has been refined to a primitive P-type asteroid. In addition, it has been characterized as a D-type asteroid in the Bus–DeMeo taxonomy.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Rotation period and poles
Several rotational lightcurves of Shaposhnikov have been obtained from photometric observations since 1989. Lightcurve analysis gave a consolidated rotation period of 21.2 hours with a brightness amplitude between 0.29 and 0.42 magnitude (U=2/2+/3). Most asteroid have periods below 20 hours.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Rotation period and poles
A 2016-published study also modeled Shaposhnikov's lightcurve using photometric data from various sources. It gave a sidereal period of 20.9959 hours, as well as a spin axis in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β) of (326.0°, 37.0°) and (144.0°, 79.0°).


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Shaposhnikov measures between 83.443 and 96.86 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a low albedo between 0.0296 and 0.04.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0385 and a diameter of 97.01 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.22.


1902 Shaposhnikov, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
Based on current diameter estimates, Shaposhnikov is the most recent discovered outer main-belt asteroid that is near the 100-kilometer diameter range. The next larger asteroid, 1390 Abastumani (101 km) was already discovered in the 1930s, four decades earlier.


1902 South Australian state election
State elections were held in South Australia on 3 May 1902 following the dissolution of both houses. All 42 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election, and all 18 seats in the Legislative Council. The House had a reduction of 12 seats compared to the previous election. The Council was reduced from 6 members in each of four districts to 6 members from Central District and four from each of North-Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts. The incumbent liberal government led by Premier of South Australia John Jenkins in an informal coalition with the conservatives defeated the United Labor Party (ULP) led by Thomas Price. Each of the 13 districts elected multiple members, with voters casting multiple votes.


1902 South Australian state election, Background
Following the 1899 election, Charles Kingston tried again for franchise reform. The Assembly voted against the measure and Kingston resigned his ministry. He was replaced by Vaiben Louis Solomon for a brief period of seven days, until Frederick Holder formed a government which, for the first time, included a ULP member, Lee Batchelor.


1902 South Australian state election, Background
The parliament was transformed by the impact of federation. Seven leading members of the Assembly resigned and were elected to the Parliament of Australia. As a result, there were 11 by-elections in this period. The Assembly was reduced in numbers, from 54 to 42. A redistribution was carried out following these changes, to produce a chamber elected from 13 districts - one 5-member, two four-member, nine 3-member and one 2-member electorates. The election was a "new start" for the parliament.


1902 South Australian state election, Background
There was no "Liberal" or "Kingston" party, but there was a relatively cohesive Kingston group among both independent members and candidates. The Liberal and Democratic Union would not be formed until the 1906 election.


1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1902 college football season. The team was then known as the South Carolina College Fighting Gamecocks. The team defeated Clemson.


1902 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Roster
The following players were members of the 1902 football team according to the roster published in the 1902 and 1903 editions of The Garnet and Black, the South Carolina yearbook.


1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Duncan Clinch Heyward won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 88th governor of South Carolina.


1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 26 and Duncan Clinch Heyward emerged as the frontrunner. His victory against W. Jasper Talbert, a congressman of the 2nd congressional district, in the runoff on September 9 came as a surprise because Heyward was relatively unknown outside of Colleton County. Heyward, an aristocratic planter, attributed his win due to running a "clean and sincere campaign."


1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election
The general election was held on November 4, 1902, and Duncan Clinch Heyward was elected the next governor of South Carolina without opposition. Being a non-presidential election and few contested races, turnout was much less than the previous gubernatorial election.


1902 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The 1902 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In its first season under head coach Arthur H. Whittemore, the team compiled a 10–0 record, shut out every opponent, and outscored them by a total of 238 to 0.


1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1902. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles N. Herreid ran for re-election to a second term. He faced former Watertown Mayor John W. Martin, the Fusion nominee who was listed as the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Herreid defeated Martin in a landslide to win his second term.


1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Republican convention
At the Republican convention in June 1902, Governor Charles N. Herreid was renominated unanimously and without opposition.


1902 South Dakota gubernatorial election, Fusion conventions
As was the case in 1898 and 1900, the Democratic and Populist Parties held separate conventions and then fused together with a common set of nominees. However, this time, the parties agreed that the ticket, though fused, would be listed as the Democratic Party on the ballot. At the conventions, former Watertown Mayor John W. Martin was named as the Fusion nominee.


1902 South Down by-election
The South Down by-election of February 1902 was held on 19 February 1902. The by-election was held following the resignation of the previous member Michael McCartan who was a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. It was won unopposed by the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate Jeremiah McVeagh.


1902 South Monaghan by-election
The 1902 South Monaghan by-election was held on 4 March 1902 after resignation of the incumbent MP James Daly of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The IPP's candidate John McKean was unopposed and so was returned as the MP.


1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
The 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1902 college football season. The season began on September 27.


1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
Clemson claimed an SIAA title. Rufus Nalley died on November 29, 1902, with a smile on his face hearing of his alma mater's defeat of Auburn.


1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
PPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election
The Southern Rhodesia Legislative Council election of March 17, 1902 was the second election to the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia. No change was made in the administration of the elections compared with the first elections three years previously, so the Legislative Council continued to comprise ten voting members: the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia ex officio, five members nominated by the British South Africa Company, and four members elected by registered voters from two electoral districts. The Resident Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Marshal James Clarke, also sat on the Legislative Council ex officio but without the right to vote.


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Results
Note: Raleigh Grey was absent through the whole of the first session of the Legislative Council.


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Additional elections
A new Order in Council promulgated in 1903 expanded the Legislative Council to fourteen members, seven to be directly elected, seven nominated by the British South Africa Company, and the Administrator to retain his seat ex officio so as to have a casting vote. Polling day was fixed for May 22, 1903.


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Additional elections
New electoral districts were drawn up for the expanded election. The Northern District, returning two members, and the Eastern District, returning one, were carved out of Mashonaland, with the remaining parts merging with part of Matabeleland to form the Midland District (returning one member) and the Western District (returning three). In order to provide continuity, the sitting members for Mashonaland were automatically made the members for the Northern District (as it contained Salisbury), and the sitting members for Matabeleland were made members for the Western District (as it contained Bulawayo). However, before the election, Percival Ross Frames resigned his seat on the Council (March 24, 1903) and so two members were elected for the Western District.


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members
The initial five members nominated by the British South Africa Company were:


1902 Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council election, Nominated members
During the absence of Townshend Griffin from November 7, 1902, Clarkson Henry Tredgold (Solicitor-General) stood in for him. When the membership was expanded in 1903, the nominated members were:


1902 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team
The 1902 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year under head coach Ashby Woodson, the team compiled a 1–2 record.


1902 Spring Hill Badgers football team
The 1902 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College as an independent during the 1902 college football season. In their second year, the team compiled a 1–0 record.


1902 St. Louis Browns season
The 1902 St. Louis Browns season was the first for the franchise in St. Louis, after moving from Milwaukee. The team finished second in the American League with a record of 78 wins and 58 losses.


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season
The Milwaukee Brewers had decided to move the team to St. Louis in 1902. The ownership chose the name Browns on purpose. The Browns was the name of the St. Louis Club that won American Association titles from 1885 to 1889. That team moved to the National League in 1892, became the Perfectos in 1899 and finally the Cardinals in 1900.


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season
The new team quickly tried to align itself with fans by raiding the rival St. Louis Cardinals. A couple of Cardinals players were signed, including slick fielding future Hall of Fame shortstop Bobby Wallace and 1901 National League batting champion outfielder Jesse Burkett. The moves paid off for the team. While playing as the Brewers in 1901, the team had a record of 48 wins and 89 losses. In 1902, the Browns had 78 wins and finished in second place in the American League.


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1902 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 21st season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 11th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 56–78 during the season and finished 6th in the National League.


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
Due to the loss of Bobby Wallace and Jesse Burkett to the St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals went from a team with 76 wins and 64 losses in 1901 to a team that finished 1902 with 56 wins and 78 defeats.


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1902 Stanford football team
The 1902 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1902 college football season and was coached by Carl L. "Clem" Clemans in his only season coaching the team. Clemans played for Stanford's first football teams and was the team's first captain. He scored the first two touchdowns in the first Big Game against California.


1902 Stanford football team, Game summaries, California
The Big Game against rival California had been played at five different fields around San Francisco since the first game in 1892. The field used for the previous three games, at 16th and Folsom Streets, had been sold and no new field was immediately identified. A site at a former Jewish cemetery at 18th and Dolores was identified and construction of bleachers began, but at the last moment, one of the organizations that owned the land backed out of the deal.


1902 Stanford football team, Game summaries, California
Just a month before the game was to be played, another site was found in the Richmond District and a field and bleachers were hastily constructed. In the game, Stanford was shut out 16–0, the team's only loss of the season. The 1903 game was also played on this field, and then, beginning with the 1904 Big Game, the game was alternated between the home field of each team.


1902 State Landau
The United Kingdom's  1902 State Landau is a horse-drawn carriage with a flexible leather roof which drops in two exact halves, back and front.


1902 State Landau
A postilion landau it is drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions and has no provision for a coachman. With the top lowered and no coachman spectators have a better view of passengers than other vehicles provide.


1902 State Landau, Use
The 1902 State Landau is owned by the United Kingdom and set aside for the monarch's use within Britain.


1902 State Landau, Use
The Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at her Diamond Jubilee celebrations 2012


1902 State Landau, Use
This carriage carries the monarch in processions at times of national celebration and official reception of a visiting head of state.


1902 State Landau, Use
In the past the monarch has provided the landau to take home the bride and groom after the marriage of the heir apparent.


1902 State Landau, Use
The largest and most splendid horse-drawn carriage—not coach—used by The Queen it was built by Hooper in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and given extra interior space.


1902 State Landau, Use
The carriage currently in use is a replica built by Australia's W James Frecklington of Manly, NSW in the late 1970s. In 1987 James Frecklington built the Australian State Coach and in 2014 The Diamond Jubilee State Coach.


1902 State Landau, Inclement weather
If rain threatens the Irish State Coach replaces it. The Gold State Coach, sometimes referred to as the coronation coach, is the primary transport for high ceremonial events directly relating to the reigning monarch but is reputed to be uncomfortable for passengers.


1902 State Landau, Contemporary description
The description published in 1903 by Walter Gilbey, founder and chairman of the London Cart Horse Parade Society and president of the Royal Agricultural Society.