The 1905 University of New Mexico football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team represented the

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...

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 champi ...

. In its first season under head coach Martin F. Angell, the team compiled a 5–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 90 to 45. Wales A. Smith was the team captain. Coach Angell was a professor of physics and mathematics.

Schedule

Roster

The roster of the 1905 University of Mexico football team included the following players: * Walter Allen, right halfback * Hugh Bryan, right end and left end * Albert Clancy, quarterback, left end, and right end * Bernard Crawford, captain, left tackle, right tackle, right end, and left guard * Tom Danahy, fullback and right tackle * Gibson, center * Kenneth Heald, right tackle and fullback * Mike Maguire, left tackle * Martin, quarterback * Joseph Mayo, left end, right end, and left halfback * Edmund Ross, right guard * Lawrence Selva, center * Wales Smith, captain, left halfback, and left guard * Trimble Wells, left guard and right guard Sources:2019 New Mexico Media Guide, pp. 132-137.

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