The 1905 Fordham football team was an
American football
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team that represented
Fordham University as an independent during the
1905 college football season
The 1905 college football season had the Chicago Maroons retroactively named as national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the National Championship Foundation, and the Houlgate System, while Yale was named champ ...
. Fordham claims a 12–3–1 record,
though
College Football Data Warehouse
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(CFDW) lists the team's record as 5–2.
, a former Fordham tackle who graduated in 1902, was hired in September 1905 as the team's coach following the resignation of
Fred Smith.
Quarterback
Howard Gargan was the team captain from 1905 to 1907 and took over as head coach in 1908.
[ The team played its home games at Fordham Field in ]The Bronx
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.
Schedule
The following seven games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.[
The following are additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.][
]
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