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
Conference	Independent
Record	8–2–1
Head coach	Bill Reid (2nd season)
Captain	Daniel Hurley
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
Seasons ← 1904 1906 →

1905 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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
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

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	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 14	3:00 p.m.	Springfield Training School	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 12–0	6,000	[5][6][7]
October 21		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 6–0
October 28		Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 10–0
November 4		Carlisle	Soldiers Field Boston, MA	W 23–11	20,000	[8]
November 11		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 6–12
November 18		Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 6–6
November 25		Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–6	43,000	[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 .
6. "Harvard Held For Small Score". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1905. p. 2. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "Frequent Fumbles". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. Buffalo, New York. October 15, 1905. p. 22. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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.