1905 Canton Bulldogs season
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The 1905 Canton Athletic Club
season was their inaugural season in the Ohio League
. The team finished 8-2, giving them second place in the league.
Canton Bulldogs
The Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio. They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and its successor, the National Football League, from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1926. The Bulldogs would go on to win the 1917, 1918...
season was their inaugural season in the Ohio League
Ohio League
The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1903 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship . As the name implied, its teams were based in Ohio...
. The team finished 8-2, giving them second place in the league.
Schedule
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 30, 1905 | Lisbon Athletic Club | W 41-0 |
| 2 | October 7, 1905 | Columbus Athletic Club | W 63-0 |
| 3 | October 14, 1905 | U.S.S. Michigan Football Team USS Michigan (1843) |USS Michigan was the United States Navy's first iron-hulled warship and served during the American Civil War. She was renamed USS Wolverine in 1905.-Early career:... |
W 121-0 |
| 4 | October 21, 1905 | Dayton Athletic Club | W 107-0 |
| 5 | October 25, 1905 | at Akron Athletic Club Akron East Ends The Akron East Ends are a defunct amateur American Football team that played in the Ohio League, a forerunner to the National Football League. They played in Akron, Ohio, from 1894 until at least 1904. Its primary rivals were the amateur Canton Athletic Association , the Shelby Blues, and later the... |
W 52-0 |
| 6 | October 28, 1905 | at Shelby Blues Shelby Blues The Shelby Blues were an American football team based in Shelby, Ohio. The team played in the Ohio League from 1900 to 1919. In 1920, when the Ohio League became the APFA , the Blues did not join but continued to play against APFA teams, only to later suspend operations... |
W 25-0 |
| 7 | November 4, 1905 | Benwood (W.Va.) A.C. | W 66-0 |
| 8 | November 18, 1905 | at Latrobe Athletic Association Latrobe Athletic Association The Latrobe Athletic Association was a professional football team located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, from 1895 until 1909. The team is best known for being the first football club to play a full season while composed entirely of professional players... |
L 6-0 |
| 9 | November 22, 1905 | Carlisle Indians | W 8-0 |
| 10 | November 30, 1905 | at Massillon Tigers Massillon Tigers The Massillon Tigers were an early professional football team from Massillon, Ohio. Playing in the "Ohio League", the team was a rival to the pre-National Football League version of the Canton Bulldogs. The Tigers won Ohio League championships in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, then merged to become... |
L 14-4 |