The 1905 Notre Dame football team was an

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team that represented the

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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 champi ...

. In its first season with Henry J. McGlew as coach, the team compiled a record and outscored its opponents by a combined total The

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traveled to South Bend on October 21 that year, and defeated Notre Dame The upset is the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928.Sideline Chatter
(PDF), ''College Football Historical Society Newsletter'', vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1, November 2006. The next week, Notre Dame scored its most points in game ever, against American Medical, winning 142 to 0.

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Game summaries

North Division High School

Michigan Agricultural College

Footnote= 3 touchdown conversions were made, to make the score 28-0 in ND's favor. But the knowledge on which touchdowns these extra points were completed on is a mystery.

Wisconsin

Wabash

American Medical College

DePauw

Indiana

Bennett Medical

Purdue

References

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