1907 Western State Normal Hilltoppers football team

1907 Western State Normal Hilltoppers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–1
Head coach
CaptainTubby Meyers
1907 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Marquette    6 0 0
North Dakota Agricultural    3 0 0
Lincoln (MO)    1 0 0
Notre Dame    6 0 1
Miami (OH)    6 1 0
Michigan    5 1 0
Mount Union    9 2 0
Fairmount    8 2 0
Iowa State    6 2 0
Lake Forest    4 1 1
South Dakota State    5 2 0
St. Vincent's (IL)    5 2 0
Wabash    5 2 0
Saint Louis    7 3 0
Western State Normal    4 2 1
Kansas State    5 3 0
Michigan State Normal    3 2 0
Wittenberg    5 4 0
Central Michigan    3 3 0
Drake    3 4 1
Ohio    3 4 1
Western Illinois    2 3 0
Franklin    3 5 1
Heidelberg    2 4 1
Butler    1 3 2
Carthage    2 5 0
Haskell    2 6 1
Chicago P&S    1 3 0
Detroit College    1 3 0
Northern Illinois State    1 4 1
Doane    1 5 0
St. Mary's (OH)    0 4 0
Baldwin–Wallace    0 6 0

The 1907 Western State Normal Hilltoppers football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first season under head coach William H. Spaulding, the Hilltoppers compiled a 4–2–1 record and shut out five of seven opponents.

After losing to Albion (5–0) and Olivet (3–0), the team did not allow a point to be scored by its opponents in the final four games against Central Michigan (29–0), Ferris Institute (0–0), Michigan State Normal (6–0), and Kalamazoo (40–0).

Halfback Tubby Meyers was the team captain for the second of three consecutive years.

The 1907 season marked the beginning of a 15-year tenure by Spaulding as the school's head football coach. Spalding had played college football at Wabash College in 1906. He coached the Western State football team from 1907 to 1921, compiling a 62–25–3 record, and later served as head football coach at Minnesota (1922–1924) and UCLA (1925–1938).