1905 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1905 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis, Whitney)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
Captain Tom Shevlin
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
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1906  →
1905 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
Dickinson  – 4 –4 –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.

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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

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

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Roster

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  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.
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  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.
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