1905 Yale Bulldogs football team

1905 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis, Whitney)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
CaptainTom Shevlin
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1904
1906 →
1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     10 0 0
Penn     12 0 1
Temple     2 0 1
Dartmouth     7 1 2
Swarthmore     7 1 0
Western U. of Penn.     10 2 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Harvard     8 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 3 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Wesleyan     7 2 1
Carlisle     10 4 0
Penn State     8 3 0
Syracuse     8 3 0
Fordham     5 2 0
Amherst     3 1 2
Holy Cross     6 3 0
Brown     7 4 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Vermont     6 4 1
Cornell     6 4 0
Colgate     5 4 0
Columbia     4 3 2
Army     4 4 1
Bucknell     5 5 0
NYU     3 3 1
Lehigh     6 7 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Geneva     4 6 0
New Hampshire     2 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 5 0
Rutgers     3 6 0
Villanova     3 7 0
Drexel     1 7 0

The 1905 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 227 to 4.[1] Jack Owsley was the head coach, and Tom Shevlin was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1905 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by Caspar Whitney and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1905 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Guy Hutchinson, halfback Howard Roome, end Tom Shevlin, and guard Roswell Tripp.[3] Other key players included halfback Samuel F. B. Morse and tackles Robert Forbes and Lucius Horatio Biglow.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4WesleyanW 27–0[4]
October 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0[5]
October 11Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–0[6][7][8]
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–02,000[9]
October 21Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–02,000[10]
October 28at ArmyW 20–04,000[11]
November 4at ColumbiaW 53–0[12]
November 11Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–03,000[13]
November 18Princeton
W 23–422,000[14]
November 25at HarvardW 6–043,000[15]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1905 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Yale, 27; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. October 5, 1905. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Good Tryout for Yale". The Sun. New York City. October 8, 1905. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Springfield Easy Victim". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 12, 1905. p. 1. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Springfield Easy Victim (continued)". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 12, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Yale, 29; Springfield T. S., 0". The New York Times. October 12, 1905. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Beats Holy Cross". New York Tribune. October 15, 1905. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale, 12; Penn. State, 0". The New York Times. October 22, 1905. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale Tallies Twenty Against West Point: Blue Plays Good Football and Keeps Cadets from". The New York Times. October 29, 1905. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale Humbles Columbia: Scores 'Almost' at Will". New York Tribune. November 5, 1905. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Brown Tough For Yale: Elis, Still Weak on Defence, Nearly Scored Twice". New York Tribune. November 12, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Yale Beats Princeton in Spectacular Game: Over 22,000 Cheer the Teams at New Haven". The New York Times. November 19, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 26, 1905). "Harvard Beaten 6-0 by Yale". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.