1905 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1905 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis, Whitney)
ConferenceIndependent
1905 record10–0
Head coach
  • Jack Owsley (1st season)
CaptainTom Shevlin
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1904
1906 →
1905 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 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
Rutgers   –   3 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 6 – 0

The 1905 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1905 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by Caspar Whitney and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 4Wesleyan
W 27–0
October 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0
October 11Springfield YMCA
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–0
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–0
October 21Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 28at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 20–0
November 4at Columbia
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 53–0
November 11Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0
November 18Princeton
W 23–4
November 25at Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 6–0

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1905 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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