1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team

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1905 Wesleyan Methodists football
ConferenceIndependent
1905 record7–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrus Field
Seasons
 1904
1906 
1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale     1000
Penn     1201
Temple     201
Dartmouth     712
Swarthmore     710
Western U. of Penn.     1020
Princeton     820
Harvard     821
Washington & Jefferson     1030
Lafayette     721
Wesleyan     721
Carlisle     1040
Penn State     830
Syracuse     830
Fordham     520
Amherst     312
Holy Cross     630
Brown     740
Tufts     530
Vermont     641
Cornell     640
Colgate     540
Columbia     432
Army     441
Bucknell     550
NYU     331
Lehigh     670
Frankin & Marshall     460
Geneva     460
New Hampshire     242
Rutgers     360
Villanova     370
Drexel     160

The 1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University during the 1905 college football season. [1] The team was led by Howard R. Reiter and posted a 7–2–1 record, losing only to national champion Yale in the first official week of play, before losing to Swarthmore in the final week of play. The game were played at Andrus Field, the oldest continuously used American football field in the world. [2] [3] The team's quarterback was Hall of Famer Harry Van Surdam. [4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 Connecticut
W 38–0
October 4at Yale L 0–27
October 7at Columbia T 0–0 [5]
October 14 Vermont
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 19–11 [6]
October 21at NYU W 31–0 [7]
October 28 Union (NY)
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 26–5
November 4 Tufts
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 27–5
November 11 Susquehanna
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 22–0
November 18 Williams
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 18–0
November 25at Swarthmore
L 6–50 [8]

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References

  1. "1905 Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Schedule and Results".
  2. "Corwin Stadium at Andrus Field - Football". Wesleyan Athletics.
  3. "Games Today at the Oldest Football Fields - 11/05/2011". Chattanoogan.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  4. "Dutch van Surdam, 90, in Grid Hall of Fame". The Times Record. 27 March 1972. p. 22.
  5. "Wesleyan Ties Columbia: Neither Team Able to Score in Game at American League Park". New York Daily Tribune. October 8, 1905. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Wesleyan 19, Vermont 11". The Boston Globe. October 15, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Easy for Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 22, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Wesleyan Easy for Swarthmore". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1905. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.