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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 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[edit]

Ends[edit]

Ralph Glaze of Dartmouth.

Tackles[edit]

Otis Lamson of Penn.

Guards[edit]

  • 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 Kersberg, 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[edit]

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

Quarterbacks[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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)
  • 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[edit]

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

Key[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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. 1905-12-20.
  3. ^ "Timely Sport Gossip from Ring and Field". Anaconda Standard. 1905-12-27.
  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.