1905 college football season

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1905 college football season
Harvard–Yale game.
Champion(s)Chicago
Yale
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The 1905 college football season had the

national champions.[1]

Conference and program changes

Membership changes

School 1904 Conference 1905 Conference
Western State Normal Hilltoppers Program Established Independent

Notable games

Chicago vs. Michigan game

In the final game of the season on November 30, 1905,

Fielding Yost's Michigan squad met in a battle of undefeated Western Conference
powerhouses. The teams played at Chicago's Marshall Field in front of 27,000 spectators, at that time the largest crowd to view a football game. Michigan was 12–0 and had a 56-game undefeated streak on the line, while Chicago was 10–0. Chicago had allowed only five points all season, Michigan none.

The game was a punting duel between Chicago's All-American

Mark Catlin
for a two-point safety. Under the rules of the time, forward progress was not credited, and a ball carrier could be carried backwards or forwards until he was down. The rest of third and fourth quarters continued as a defensive stalemate. Chicago's 2–0 victory snapped Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak and gave Chicago the consensus national championship for 1905.

As a tragic note to this game, Clark received the blame for the Michigan loss, and in 1932 he shot himself through the heart. In a suicide note to his wife he reportedly expressed the hope that his "final play" would be of some benefit in atoning for his error at Marshall Field.

Night football

On October 6, 1905, the first

Coleman Company provided lights for the game.[2]

Rule experiment

On December 25, 1905, an

first down in three plays instead of four. Football legend John H. Outland officiated the game and commented, "It seems to me that the distance required in three downs would almost eliminate touchdowns, except through fakes or flukes."[3] The Los Angeles Times reported that there was much kicking and that the game was considered much safer than regular play, but that the new rule was not "conducive to the sport."[4] Some of the rules for this game were based on the Burnside rules
which govern the Canadian game.

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Georgia Tech 5 – 0 – 1 6 – 0 – 1
LSU 2 – 0 – 0 3 – 0 – 0
Sewanee 3 – 1 – 1 4 – 2 – 1
Clemson 3 – 2 – 1 3 – 2 – 1
Cumberland (TN) 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Alabama 4 – 4 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Nashville 0 – 0 – 0 0 – 2 – 0
Auburn 2 – 3 – 0 2 – 4 – 0
Mississippi A&M 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
Tulane 0 – 1 – 0 0 – 1 – 0
Ole Miss 0 – 2 – 0 0 – 2 – 0
Tennessee 0 – 4 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
Georgia 0 – 5 – 0 1 – 5 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1905 Southwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Oklahoma 3 – 0 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Texas 4 – 1 – 0 5 – 4 – 1
Texas A&M 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Oklahoma A&M 1 – 1 – 0 1 – 3 – 2
TCU
 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
Arkansas 0 – 1 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Baylor 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 6 – 0
Trinity   –     –  
1905 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Chicago $ 7 – 0 – 0 11 – 0 – 0
Michigan 2 – 1 – 0 12 – 1 – 0
Minnesota 2 – 1 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
Purdue 1 – 1 – 1 6 – 1 – 1
Wisconsin 1 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Indiana 0 – 1 – 1 8 – 1 – 1
Iowa 0 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 1
Illinois 0 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents

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
1905 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Detroit College   –   1 – 0 – 0
Kansas   –   10 – 1 – 0
Central Michigan   –   7 – 1 – 0
Doane   –   5 – 1 – 0
Nebraska   –   9 – 2 – 0
Saint Louis   –   7 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   7 – 2 – 1
Kansas State   –   6 – 2 – 0
Northern Illinois State   –   3 – 1 – 1
Carthage
   –   4 – 2 – 0
Western Illinois
   –   4 – 2 – 0
Iowa State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington University   –   7 – 3 – 2
Wittenberg   –   7 – 4 – 0
Heidelberg
   –   6 – 4 – 0
Iowa State Normal
   –   5 – 3 – 2
Cincinnati   –   5 – 3 – 0
Miami (OH)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Missouri   –   5 – 4 – 0
Notre Dame   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fairmount
   –   5 – 4 – 1
Haskell   –   5 – 4 – 1
Lake Forest   –   6 – 5 – 0
Wabash   –   6 – 5 – 0
Drake   –   4 – 4 – 0
Michigan State Normal   –   4 – 4 – 0
Marquette
   –   3 – 4 – 0
South Dakota State
   –   2 – 3 – 0
Ohio   –   2 – 5 – 2
DePauw   –   3 – 6 – 0
Mount Union
   –   2 – 6 – 0
North Dakota Agricultural   –   1 – 4 – 1
Baldwin–Wallace
   –   0 – 1 – 0
Chicago P&S   –   0 – 1 – 0
St. Mary's (OH)
   –   0 – 3 – 0
1905 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tusculum
   –   1 – 0 – 0
Stetson   –   4 – 0 – 1
VPI   –   9 – 1 – 0
Navy   –   10 – 1 – 1
Grant   –   6 – 1 – 0
Kentucky University   –   7 – 0 – 3
Oklahoma   –   7 – 2 – 0
Washington and Lee   –   7 – 2 – 0
Texas A&M   –   7 – 2 – 0
Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 0
North Carolina A&M   –   4 – 1 – 1
West Virginia   –   6 – 3 – 0
Kentucky State College   –   6 – 3 – 1
South Carolina   –   4 – 2 – 1
Maryland   –   6 – 4 – 0
Central State Normal
   –   4 – 3 – 1
North Carolina   –   4 – 3 – 1
Virginia   –   5 – 4 – 0
Catholic University
   –   0 – 0 – 1
TCU   –   4 – 4 – 0
Delaware   –   3 – 4 – 1
The Citadel   –   2 – 3 – 1
Richmond   –   3 – 5 – 2
George Washington   –   3 – 4 – 2
Davidson   –   3 – 4 – 0
Howard (AL)   –   1 – 2 – 1
VMI   –   2 – 5 – 1
Oklahoma A&M   –   1 – 4 – 2
Arkansas   –   2 – 6 – 0
Kendall   –   1 – 3 – 0
Georgetown   –   2 – 7 – 0
Goldey College   –   1 – 4 – 0
Baylor   –   1 – 6 – 0
Louisiana Industrial   –   0 – 1 – 0
1905 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Stanford   –   8 – 0 – 0
New Mexico A&M   –   3 – 0 – 0
Colorado   –   8 – 1 – 0
New Mexico
   –   5 – 1 – 1
Utah
   –   6 – 2 – 0
California   –   4 – 1 – 2
Oregon Agricultural   –   6 – 3 – 0
USC   –   6 – 3 – 1
Arizona   –   4 – 2 – 0
Oregon   –   4 – 2 – 2
Washington   –   4 – 2 – 2
Washington State   –   4 – 4 – 0
Utah Agricultural   –   2 – 2 – 1
Wyoming   –   3 – 4 – 0
Montana   –   2 – 3 – 0
Montana Agricultural   –   1 – 2 – 1
Nevada State   –   0 – 3 – 1
Tempe Normal   –   0 – 3 – 0

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Michigan Agricultural 5–0
Ohio Athletic Conference Case 4–0–1

Minor conference standings

1905 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan Agricultural $ 5 – 0 – 0 9 – 2 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1905 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Case $ 4 – 0 – 1 8 – 1 – 1
Ohio State 2 – 0 – 1 8 – 2 – 2
Oberlin 2 – 3 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Western Reserve
 1 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Kenyon
 1 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Ohio Wesleyan
 1 – 3 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1905 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Walter Eckersall 5'7" 141 Jr.
Chicago, Illinois
 Chicago
QB Guy Hutchinson Yale
HB Jack Hubbard Sr.
Amherst
HB Daniel Hurley Sr..
Charlestown, Massachusetts
 Harvard
HB Howard Roome Jr. Yale
HB Henry Torney Sr. Army
FB
James B. McCormick
 So. Princeton
E
 Mark Catlin Sr. Sr. Chicago
E
 Tom Shevlin 5'10" 195 Sr.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 Yale
T
 Karl Brill So. Harvard
T
 Beaton Squires Sr. Harvard
G
 Francis Burr Jr. Brookline, Massachusetts Harvard
C
 Robert Torrey Sr. Montclair, New Jersey Penn
G
 Roswell Tripp Sr. Yale
T
 Otis Lamson Sr. Penn
E
 Ralph Glaze 5'8" 153 Sr. Dartmouth

See also

References

  1. ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  2. Coleman Company. Archived from the original
    on March 18, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  3. ^ New York Times "Ten Yard Rule a Failure" December 26, 1905
  4. ^ Los Angeles Times Archived 2013-03-16 at the Wayback Machine "New Football Rules Tested" December 26, 1905
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