1905 Yale Bulldogs football team

1905 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis, Whitney)
Conference	Independent
Record	10–0
Head coach	Jack Owsley (1st season)
Captain	Tom Shevlin
Home stadium	Yale Field

1905 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	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 29–0	2,000	[9]
October 21	Penn State	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 12–0	2,000	[10]
October 28	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 20–0	4,000	[11]
November 4	at Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 53–0		[12]
November 11	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 11–0	3,000	[13]
November 18	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 23–4	22,000	[14]
November 25	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 6–0	43,000	[15]

^[1]

References

1. "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 .
7. "Springfield Easy Victim (continued)". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 12, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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.