The 1905 Stanford football team represented
Stanford University 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 ...
. In head coach
James F. Lanagan's third season, Stanford went undefeated. The team played their home games at
Stanford Field in
Stanford, California
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.
The 1905 season marked the first meeting between Stanford and USC. Consequently, Stanford is USC's oldest existing rival.
The
Big Game between Stanford and
Cal on November 11, 1905, was the first played at
Stanford Field, with Stanford winning 12–5.
[
Following the 1905 season, Stanford, responding like other American universities to concerns about the violence in football, dropped football in favor of rugby. Despite having no knowledge of the sport, Lanagan was retained as the rugby coach, spending time in ]Vancouver
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, British Columbia
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, to study the sport, and coached for three seasons.[ He also served as Stanford's baseball coach from 1906 to 1907.][
Stanford would not play varsity football again until the 1919 season.
]
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The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference's North Division. The team is known as the Stanford Cardinal, Cardinal, adopted pri ...