1905 College Football All-America Team

Official list of the best college football players of 1905

1905 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1905 college football season
1903 1904 ← → 1906 1907

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

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.

Halfbacks

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

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

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. ^ a b c d 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
  5. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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