The 1905 Harvard Crimson football team represented

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in 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 ...

. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record under head coach

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, who had coached Harvard in 1901.

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selected two Harvard players (tackle Beaton Squires and guard

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) as first-team players on his

1905 College Football All-America Team 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 organ ...

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selected three Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr, tackle Karl Brill and halfback Daniel Hurley.

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