1905 Wabash Little Giants football team

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1905 Wabash Little Giants football
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 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
Iowa State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington University   –   6 – 3 – 1
Wittenberg   –   7 – 4 – 0
Heidelberg   –   6 – 4 – 0
Iowa State Normal   –   5 – 3 – 2
Cincinnati   –   4 – 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
Michigan State Normal   –   4 – 4 – 0
Wabash   –   6 – 6 – 0
Marquette   –   3 – 4 – 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

The 1905 Wabash Little Giants football team represented Wabash College during the 1905 college football season.[1] Although the team ended the season with six wins and six losses,[2] the team managed one of its most impressive upsets when it defeated Notre Dame, 5–0, at South Bend. It proved to be the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928.[3][4] Notre Dame had originally considered the game a "practice game" and expected to win easily when the game was scheduled the previous year, but began to take the team more seriously as the 1905 season developed.[5]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
ButlerCrawfordsville, INL 0–6
September 23Sheridan HS (IN)Crawfordsville, INW 80–0[6]
September 30at Chicago
L 0–15[7]
October 4at Illinois
L 0–6[8]
October 7at Northwestern
L 0–5[9]
October 14at Purdue
L 0–12[10]
October 21at Notre Dame
W 5–0[11]
October 28EarlhamCrawfordsville, INW 11–6
November 4Lake ForestCrawfordsville, INW 53–0[12]
November 11Knox (IL)Crawfordsville, INW 57–0[13]
November 18at IndianaBloomington, INL 0–40[14]
November 25DePauwCrawfordsville, INW 52–0[15]

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Roster[]

  • Shank, Right end
  • Knudsen, Right tackle
  • Hess, Right guard
  • Brown, Center
  • Sprow, Center
  • Sutherland, Left guard
  • Williams, Left tackle
  • Frurip, Left end
  • Miller, Quarterback
  • Myers, Right halfback
  • Harp, Left back
  • Spaulding, Left halfback and team captain[16][17]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "1905 Wabash Little Giants Schedule and Results - College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Notre Dame Game-by-Game Results Archived 2002-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 30, 2009.
  4. ^ Sideline Chatter (PDF), College Football Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1, November 2006.
  5. ^ "Notre Dame Respects the Wabash Eleven". The Indianapolis News. October 18, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  6. ^ "Avalanche Strikes Sheridan". The Indianapolis Star. September 24, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Maroons Win By 15 to 0". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 1, 1905. pp. 1, 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Illinois Beats Wabash". The Muncie Morning Star. October 5, 1905. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Five Points for Purple: Northwestern Defeats Wabash by One Touchdown". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 8, 1905. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Boiler Makers Win First Big Contest: Purdue Defeats Wabash in Brilliant Game on Stuart Field by Score of 12 to 0". The Indianapolis Star. October 15, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Wabash Outplays Notre Dame". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 22, 1905. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Wabash Takes Easy Game". The Indianapolis Star. November 5, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Wabash Knocks Knox Silly". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 12, 1905. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Wabash Completely Routed By Indiana". The Indianapolis Star. November 19, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "De Pauw Snowed Under: Wabash Wins Game 52 to 0". The Indianapolis Star. November 26, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ ""Little Giants," Wabash College, An Eleven Expected to Prove Sensation of Small Colleges of West". The Indianapolis News. September 23, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  17. ^ "Star Players of Wabash Football Team". The Star Press. October 22, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved July 9, 2017.


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