1905 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1905 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1905 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record under head coach Bill Reid, who had coached Harvard in 1901.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players (tackle Beaton Squires and guard Francis Burr) as first-team players on his 1905 College Football All-America Team.[3] Caspar Whitney selected three Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr, tackle Karl Brill and halfback Daniel Hurley.[4]

1905 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2–1
Head coach
CaptainDaniel Hurley
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
(capacity: 42,000)
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
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

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Williams
W 12–0
October 3 Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–0
October 7 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 22–0
October 10 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 34–6
October 143:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 12–06,000[5][6][7]
October 21at Army
W 6–0
October 28 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
November 4 Carlisle
W 23–1120,000[8]
November 11at Penn
L 6–12
November 18 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 6–6
November 25 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–643,000[9]

References
  1. "1905 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "All-American Eleven: Walter Camp Selects the Best Football Team; West Figures Prominently". The Washington Post. December 20, 1905.
  4. "Timely Sport Gossip from Ring and Field". Anaconda Standard. December 27, 1905.
  5. "Has Already Played Yale". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 14, 1905. p. 3. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Harvard Held For Small Score". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1905. p. 2. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Frequent Fumbles". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. Buffalo, New York. October 15, 1905. p. 22. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Harvard 23, Indians 11: Both Teams Put U a Strong Offense". The Boston Post. November 5, 1905. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 26, 1905). "Harvard Beaten 6-0 by Yale". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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