The 1905 season
521 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Chicago claims the national title. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
Major college
- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
- Vanderbilt
Small college
- Michigan Conference
- Michigan State
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
Consensus All-Americans
- EMark Catlin Sr., Chicago
- ERalph Glaze, Dartmouth
- EThomas Shevlin, Yale
- OTKarl Brill, Harvard
- OTOtis Lamson, Penn
- OTBeaton Squires, Harvard
- OGFrancis Burr, Harvard
- OGRoswell Tripp, Yale
- CRobert Torrey, Penn
- QBWalter Eckersall, Chicago
- QBGuy Hutchinson, Yale
- RBJack Hubbard, Amherst
- RBDaniel Hurley, Harvard
- RBHoward Roome, Yale
- RBHenry Torney, Army
- FBJames B. McCormick, Princeton
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1905 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1905 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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CHICAGO WINS OUT IN PUNTING DUEL Maroon Squad lake Champon- ship of West. CHICAGO 2; MICHIGAN 0 Both Teams Punted a Great Deal and the Game Developed Into One Between EckersoIl and Garrels. CHICAGO 2; MICHIGAN 0 DCtWCCH ECkCTSOll anu Garrels. chicago.i November sO.-Chicago /, Michigan 0. The undisputed honor of the western football championship was earned by Chi cago today by the close score of two points, earned on a safety touchdown in the second half by the splendid work of Captain Catlin of Chicago, but also by the poor judgment of Clark of Michigan in trying to run back a punt of Ecker- sails, which barely reached the Michigan goal line. He was thrown across the line by Catlin after he had thrown off two Chicago taellers, and two points, a safety touchodwn, were recorded for Chicago, the only scoring done in the game. The game was devoid of spectacular features. Brilliant open field play by Chicago and hard, grinding, man-killing line work by Michigan was expected by the 5000 spectators that surrounded the grdiron on Marshall field But the con trary was the case Trick plays almost invariably were unsuccessful. Eckersall, whose remarkable powers were expected at least to score for Chicago, had only one chance at dropkick, and this was unsuccessful. Michigan’s concerted of fense, when hurled against the Chicago line, failed to produce expected results and the fight for the honor of the wes- tern football championship early devolved itself into a bunting duel between Ecker- sail of Chicago and Garres of Michigan, but with this unexpected difference Michi- gan utterly failed to gain consistently against Chieago’s defense, while Chicago whose line had yielded to the attacks of nearly every team that had played Chi cago this season, not only held against the heavy line plays of Michigan but gained much more ground than did Michi- gan on straight football. Disqualified for Suaging. Part of this was due to the disqualif- cation for slugging in the first half of Curtis, the star tackle of the Chicago. for Eckersall, quick to observe the conse- quent weakness in Michigan’s defense, directed the majority of the Maroons line plays against Patrick, who took Curtis place. Outside of all this however, Chi cago plainly outplayed Michigan, and the Blue for the first time in three years was deal of the time. Frequently both Chi cago and Michigan punted on the first down. although this was resorted to more frequently by Michigan than by Chicago and in this bunting duel Garrels, who did the kicking for Michigan. had none the worst of it, his punts averaging fully as many yards as the long spirals of the brilliant Chicago quarterback, and were high enough to allow the Michigan ends | to get down the field. But Chicago made more distance on straight football than did Michigan, and in the second half this | figured in the play that resulted in the only points scored. 1 Neither team scored in the first half. 1 Chicago won the toss and chose the north l goal, with the wind favoring, but only once was the ball ever within dangerous distance of goal line. and 1t was Michi- 1 gans goal line that was threatened Puntng Duel Resumed. The safety touchdown was marked up late in the second half. Both Chicago l and Michigan had tricks to find weak spots in tine oppising line, but without success, and a bunting duel was again re- sumed with what advantage there was in | favor of Chicago, the Maroon backs gain 1 ing more ground than Michigan. Finally, with the ball on Michigans five-yard l line sent there a punt by 1ckersall, | Garrels kicked to Michigan fOfty-nVe- | yard line Eckersall immediately returned the punt His long, high spiral went over the Michigan goal line. Clark, who had relieved Stuart at left half, caught l the ball standing under the goal bar. and instead of letting the ball go for a touch l down. ran with it. He shook off Perry but Catlin nailed him before he had run ten yards along the line, and hurled him across the goal line for a safety. Clark was yanked ont immediately and Ma goffin sent in his place, but the mischief had been done. The game was nearly over. and Chicago, with victory in sight 1 more than held the desperate attack of l the Michigan backs in the closing mo- ments of the game. Michigan used foui substltutes during the game, Curta Stu art, Captain Norcross and Clark going out, while Chicago used but one substi- ute. De Tray going in for Walker. whose injured knee gave out early in the game holding the meetings of the lodge vii also make an important report The union Thanksgiving services con ducted at the First Baptist church this morning at 10 o’clock by the Rev George W Read. retiring pastor of the firs | Methodist church, was well attended DS gI..t. afa1st