1905 College Football All-America Team
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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 Team
s for the 1905 college football season
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
for Collier's Weekly
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...
s for the 1905 college football season
1905 college football season
The 1905 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Chicago and Yale Bulldogs football as national champions.-Rule experiment:...
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
for Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
Key
- WC = Collier's WeeklyCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
as selected by Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football... - CW = Casper Whitney for Outing magazine.
- NYEP = New York Evening Post
- NYT = New York Times
- NYW = New York World
- NYG = New York Globe
- Bold - Consensus All-American
- 1 - First Team Selection
- 2 - Second Team Selection
- 3 - Third Team Selection
Ends
- Thomas Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYG)
- Ralph GlazeRalph GlazeDaniel Ralph Glaze was an American athlete and coach who played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later became a football and baseball coach and administrator at several colleges....
, Dartmouth (WC-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) - Mark CatlinMark CatlinMark S. Catlin, Sr. was an American football player, track athlete, coach, lawyer, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Iowa from 1906 to 1908, and at Lawrence University from 1909 to 1918 and again from 1924 to 1927, compiling a career college football record...
, Chicago (WC-2; CW-1) - Izzy Levene, Penn (WC-3; NYW; NYG)
- Bobby MarshallBobby MarshallRobert Wells "Bobby" Marshall was an American sports player. He was best known for playing football, however he also competed in baseball, track, boxing and ice hockey....
, Minnesota (WC-2) - Norman Tooker, Princeton (WC-3)
Tackles
- Otis LamsonOtis Lamson-External links:...
, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG) - Karl BrillKarl BrillKarl Brill was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the Harvard Crimson football team in 1904 and 1905 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1905. As a sophomore in December 1905, Brill announced that he would not continue playing football. He said, "I...
, Harvard (CW-1; NYW) - Beaton SquiresBeaton SquiresBeaton Hall Squires, LL.B, BA was an All-American football player and a noted Canadian lawyer. Born in rural Newfoundland, Squires became a star football player at Harvard and was selected by Walter Camp as his first-team All-American at the right guard position in 1905...
, Harvard (WC-1) - Lamson, Penn (NYEP; NYT; NYG)
- Cooney, Princeton (NYT)
- Robert ForbesRobert ForbesRobert W. "Bob" Forbes was an American football player and coach. He was a first-team All-American end for Yale University in 1906 and was the recipient of one of the most significant passes in the first season in which the forward pass was legalized...
, Yale (WC-2) - Joe CurtisJoe CurtisJoseph S. "Big Joe" Curtis was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904–1906 and as an All-American in 1904 and 1905...
, Michigan (WC-2) - Bertke, Wisconsin (WC-3)
- Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-3)
Guards
- Roswell TrippRoswell TrippRoswell Tripp was an American football player.Tripp attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania where he drew his attention for his talent as a football player. Tripp enrolled at the University of Chicago and played at the tackle for Amos Alonzo Stagg's 1902 football team...
, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) - Francis BurrFrancis BurrFrancis Hardon Burr was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American end in 1906 and captain of the 1908 Harvard Crimson football team. After he died of typhoid fever in 1910, the Francis H. Burr Award was established in his honor.-Biography:Burr was raised in Brookline,...
, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYW) - Hobson, Penn (NYEP; NYG)
- Kersburg, Harvard (NYG)
- Thompson, Cornell (WC-2)
- Henry SchulteHenry SchulteHenry Frank Schulte was an American football player and coach and also a college track and field coach...
, Michigan (WC-2) - Fletcher, Brown (WC-3)
- Maxwell, Swarthmore (WC-3; NYT)
Centers
- Robert TorreyRobert TorreyRobert Grant Torrey was an American football player and coach. He played center and was selected as the captain of the University of Pennsylvania's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1905.-Biography:Torrey was from Montclair, New Jersey...
, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW; NYG) - Carl S. Flanders, Yale (WC-2)
- Gale, Chicago (WC-3)
Quarterbacks
- Walter EckersallWalter EckersallWalter "Eckie" Eckersall was an American football player, official, and sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.-Early life:...
, Chicago (WC-1; CW-1 [fb]; NYEP) - Guy HutchinsonGuy HutchinsonGuy Hutchinson was an American businessman.Hutchinson was born in New York City, and later moved to New Jersey. He was a graduate of Yale University in 1906. While attending the University, Guy was a star quarterback, which earned him the honor of All-American in 1905, as well as a member of St....
, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYT; NYG) - Stevenson, Penn (NYW)
- Wilmer Crowell, Swarthmore (WC-3)
Halfbacks
- Howard RoomeHoward RoomeHoward Le Chevalier Roome was an American football player. He played halfback for Yale University championship teams of 1905 and 1906 and was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1905. Roome graduated from Yale in 1907 and married amateur golfer Florence Newman Ayres in April...
, Yale (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYG) - Jack HubbardJack HubbardJohn H. "Jack" Hubbard was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966.-External links:*...
, Amherst (WC-1) - Daniel Hurley, Harvard (CW-1)
- Henry TorneyHenry TorneyHenry Walter Torney was an American football player and industrial engineer. He was an All-American at the halfback, fullback positions in 1904 and 1905 while attending the United States Military Academy. He later became an industrial engineer.-Biography:Torney was the son of George H. Torney,...
, Army (CW-1; NYT [fb]; NYW [fb]; NYG [fb]) - Thomas HammondThomas S. HammondThomas Stevens "Tom" or "T.S." Hammond was an American business and political leader, soldier and football player and coach. He played football for Fielding H. Yost's renowned 1903, 1904 and 1905 "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan. In 1906, he served as the head coach...
, Michigan (WC-3; NYEP) - Main, Dartmouth (NYEP)
- Walders, Cornell (NYG)
- Samuel F. B. Morse, Yale (WC-2; NYT; NYW)
- Shelbe, Penn (WC-2)
- A.G. Findlay, Wisconsin (WC-3)
Fullbacks
- James B. McCormickJim McCormick (American football)Jim McCormick was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He was also head coach at Princeton in 1909....
, Princeton (WC-1) - A. Rex Flinn, Yale (NYEP)
- Phillip Von Saltza, Columbia (WC-2)
- Hugo BezdekHugo BezdekHugo Francis Bezdek was a Czech-American sports figure who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon , the University of Arkansas , Penn State University , and Delaware Valley College...
, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)