The first all-college football team took the field in the fall of 1901. Although it lost its opener to Kingfisher College 12-0, the team won its first victory in the second game against Northwestern Normal College and played a total of five games that year.

The first team, composed of members from four different classes, consisted of (bottom row) Joseph Thornberry, Charles Morrow; (middle row) Ralph Kratka, George Janeway (business manager), Alva Pierce; (top row) R. Morton House, W. Thornberry, Charles Hughes, A.W. Flower, Rex Shively, Joseph Houska and Charles Edgerton.