Wesleyan (CT) at Swarthmore
Saturday, November 25, 1905 Share
Swarthmore beat Wesleyan (CT) 50–6. It was their only meeting on record.
Final
In the newspapers

Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., November 27, 1905, page 4
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IN A ONE-SIDED GAME Swarthmore Ends Football Season by Defeating Wesleyan, so to 6. Swarthmore, Pa, Nov 26.-The Swarthmore football team, Saturday, ended their season by defeating Wesleyan by the score of so to 6. The game was too one-sided to be interesting. On the Offense Swarthmore could not be stopped the whole team working with remarkable precision Wesleyan’s single touchdown was due to tumble.

New-York tribune, November 26, 1905, page 9
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swARTHMoRE sWAMPs WESLEYAN. Winds Up Season by Beating Connecticut Team to Tune of so to 6. swarthmore Penn, Nov. 25.-The Swarthmore foetbau team to-day ended the season by defeating wesleyan by the score of so to s. The game was too one-sided to be interesting On the offence 2,o~i1e ~ with remarkable precision Wesleyan’s sfUg1a touchdown was due to tumble. The lineup:

Waterbury evening Democrat, November 27, 1905, page 9 (results column)
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OTHER GAMES. At Swarthmore. Pa, the heavy Swarthmore team beat Wesleyan, 50 to 6. The game was too oue-sided to be Interesting. Wesleyan’s single touchdown was due to a tumble Trinity and Haverford played an ex- citing game at Haverford. Pa. The score was 2S to q in favor of Haver- ford. Each team scored the same number of touchdowns. but Trinity missed three out of four possible goals. TrinItyss team was lighter than Haverford’s. New York university beat Union in New York. II to O. At Annapolis the Navy beat vir- ginia Polytechnic. 12 to 6. The Army trimmed Syracuse at West Point. IT to O. At Ithaca the Cornell freshmen beat the Pennsylvania freshmen. IT to O. The Carlisle Indians beat Washing ton and Jefferson at Pittsburg. ii to 70. At Washington the Georgetown team beat George Washington univer- sitv. 12 to O. Forfbam beat Rutgers at New Brunswick. \. J.. IT to 6. Lafayette showed Lehigh under at Bethlehem. Pa. 53 to O. At Beloft-Beioit IS. Knox 5 At LincolD-Nebraska 43. Doane {. At Ann Arbor-Michigan T5. ober- lin Q. At Bloomlngton-wabash 52. De pauw o. At Miuneapolis – Minnesota T2. Northwestern a At Harrisburg. Pa. Satursiav Buck nell defeated viIlanova by the score of 1T tn q. In 6 ganle between Marshall and Bellmcre High schools at BeIImore. Ind. Saturday. Carl Osborne. 12 was instantly killed a rib being pushed through his heart during a scrim- maze. The ouskerS and Colts played a tie game at Riverside park yesterday af- ternoon- The contest ended In a dis uute. the Colts leaving the HeId. % it is said. because of an unfair decision hy the referee. There were oniy few minutes ieft to play when the dis- nntn arose
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Swarthmore 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Wesleyan (CT)–Swarthmore gameSwarthmore leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Wesleyan (CT)
- Next gameat YaleOct. 3, 1906
- SeasonWesleyan (CT) in 1905
- ProgramWesleyan (CT) history and records
Swarthmore
- Next gamevs. USS WashingtonSept. 22, 1906
- SeasonSwarthmore in 1905
- ProgramSwarthmore history and records