1905 College Football All-America Team

The 1905 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1905 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Caspar Whitney for Outing Magazine.

All-American selections for 1905

Ends

Ralph Glaze of Dartmouth.

• Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (WC-2; CW-1)
• Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW)
• Thomas Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYG)
• Izzy Levene, Penn (WC-3; NYW; NYG)
• Bobby Marshall, Minnesota (WC-2)
• Norman Tooker, Princeton (WC-3)^[1]

Tackles

Otis Lamson of Penn.

• Karl Brill, Harvard (CW-1; NYW)
• Otis Lamson, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG; NYEP; NYT; NYG)
• Beaton Squires, Harvard (WC-1)
• James Cooney, Princeton (NYT)
• Robert Forbes, Yale (WC-2)
• Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2)
• Wilson Bertke, Wisconsin (WC-3)
• Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-3)

Guards

• Francis Burr, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYW)
• Roswell Tripp, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW)
• F. Hobson, Penn (NYEP; NYG)
• Harry von Kersburg, Harvard (NYG)
• Elmer Thompson, Cornell (WC-2)
• Henry Schulte, Michigan (WC-2)
• Albert M. Fletcher, Brown (WC-3)
• Tiny Maxwell, Swarthmore (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; NYT)

Centers

• Robert Torrey, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW; NYG)
• Carl S. Flanders, Yale (WC-2)
• Burton Pike Gale, Chicago (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

Walter Eckersall of Chicago.

• Walter Eckersall, Chicago (WC-1; CW-1 [fb]; NYEP)
• Guy Hutchinson, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYT; NYG)
• Vince Stevenson, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYW)
• Wilmer G. Crowell, Swarthmore (WC-3)

Halfbacks

• Jack Hubbard, Amherst (WC-1)
• Daniel Hurley, Harvard (CW-1)
• Howard Roome, Yale (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYG)
• Henry Torney, Army (CW-1; NYT [fb]; NYW [fb]; NYG [fb])
• Thomas Hammond, Michigan (WC-3; NYEP)
• David Main, Dartmouth (NYEP)
• George Walder, Cornell (NYG)
• Samuel Finley Brown Morse, Yale (WC-2; NYT; NYW)
• H. W. Sheble, Penn (WC-2)
• A. H. Douglas, Navy (CW-2)
• Albion Findlay, Wisconsin (WC-3)

Fullbacks

• James B. McCormick, Princeton (WC-1)
• A. Rex Flinn, Yale (NYEP)
• Philip von Saltza, Columbia (WC-2)
• Hugo Bezdek, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1905

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[2]
• CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine.^[3]

Other selectors

• NYEP = New York Evening Post^[4]
• NYT = New York Times^[4]
• NYW = New York World^[4]
• NYG = New York Globe^[4]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[5]

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection

See also

• 1905 All-Southern college football team
• 1905 All-Western college football team

References

1. "Dr. Norman Tooker, Retired Professor". The New York Times. July 16, 1967. (died July 14, 1967, at Princeton Hospital)
2. "All-American Eleven: Walter Camp Selects the Best Football Team; West Figures Prominently". The Washington Post. December 20, 1905.
3. "Timely Sport Gossip from Ring and Field". Anaconda Standard. December 27, 1905.
4. 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
5. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.