1905 Yale Bulldogs football team

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]

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

1905 Eastern college football independents records
	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
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					3	–	1	–	2
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	0
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			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

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

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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. "1905 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.