1905 College Football All-America Team Explained

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Kersburg, 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

• 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, 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

• 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)
• David 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

• 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

• 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

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

Notes and References

1. News: Dr. Norman Tooker, Retired Professor. The New York Times. July 16, 1967. (died July 14, 1967, at Princeton Hospital)
2. News: All-American Eleven: Walter Camp Selects the Best Football Team; West Figures Prominently. The Washington Post. 1905-12-20.
3. News: Timely Sport Gossip from Ring and Field. Anaconda Standard. 1905-12-27.
4. 1905 Official NCAA Football Guide
5. Web site: Football Award Winners. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. October 21, 2017. 6.