1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team

The 1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University during the 1905 college football season.[1] The team was led by Howard R. Reiter and posted a 7–2–1 record, losing only to national champion Yale in the first official week of play, before losing to Swarthmore in the final week of play. The game were played at Andrus Field, the oldest continuously used American football field in the world.[2][3] The team's quarterback was Hall of Famer Harry Van Surdam.[4]

1905 Wesleyan Cardinals football
ConferenceIndependent
1905 record7–2–1
Head coachHoward R. Reiter (3rd season)
Home stadiumAndrus Field
1905 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Lafayette      7 2 1
Wesleyan      7 2 1
Carlisle      10 4 0
Washington & Jefferson      9 3 0
Penn State      8 3 0
Syracuse      8 3 0
Fordham      5 2 0
Amherst      3 1 2
Brown      7 4 0
Tufts      5 3 0
Cornell      6 4 0
Colgate      5 4 0
Columbia      4 3 2
Army      4 4 1
NYU      3 3 1
Lehigh      6 7 0
Frankin & Marshall      4 6 0
Geneva      4 6 0
New Hampshire      2 4 2
Rutgers      3 6 0
Villanova      3 7 0
Drexel      0 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30ConnecticutW 38–0
October 4at YaleL 27–0
October 7at ColumbiaT 0–0
October 14VermontW 19–11
October 21at NYUW 31–0
October 28UnionW 26–5
November 4TuftsW 27–5
November 11SusquehannaW 22–0
November 18WilliamsW 18–0
November 25SwarthmoreL 50–6

References

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