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 Team The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions. The original use of the term ''All-America'' seems to have been to the 1889 College Football ...

s for the 1905 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included

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for ''Outing Magazine''.

All-American selections for 1905

Ends

* Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (WC-2; CW-1) *

Ralph Glaze Daniel Ralph Glaze (March 13, 1881 – October 31, 1968) was an American sportsman and coach who played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later became a college football, football and baseball coach and administrator at seve ...

, Dartmouth (WC-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) * Thomas Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYG) *

Izzy Levene Israel George "Izzy" Levene (May 1, 1885 – November 12, 1930) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1907 to 1909 and at Wake Forest University in 1922, compiling a c ...

, Penn (WC-3; NYW; NYG) *

Bobby Marshall Robert Wells Marshall (March 12, 1880 – August 27, 1958) was an American sportsman. He was best known for playing football; however, Marshall also competed in baseball,

, Minnesota (WC-2) * Norman Tooker, Princeton (WC-3)

Tackles

* Karl Brill, Harvard (CW-1; NYW) *

Otis Lamson Otis Floyd Lamson (September 13, 1876 – December 11, 1956) was an American football player and coach, and also a surgeon. Early life Lamson was born in Beetown, Wisconsin, in 1876. Football career Lamson served as the head football coach at t ...

, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG; NYEP; NYT; NYG) * Beaton Squires, Harvard (WC-1) * James Cooney, Princeton (NYT) *

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, Yale (WC-2) *

Joe Curtis John Spencer "Big Joe" Curtis (November 14, 1882 – January 29, 1972) was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 t ...

, Michigan (WC-2) * Wilson Bertke, Wisconsin (WC-3) *

Lucius Horatio Biglow Lucius Horatio "Ray" Biglow III (''often spelled Bigelow''; February 28, 1885 – July 9, 1961) was an American football player and coach. He played right guard for Yale University from 1905 to 1907. He was selected as an All-American in both ...

, Yale (WC-3)

Guards

Francis Burr Francis Hardon Burr (September 15, 1886 – December 5, 1910) was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American guard in 1906 and captain of the 1908 Harvard Crimson football team. After he died of typhoid fever in 1910, the ...

, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYW) *

Roswell Tripp Roswell Tripp (January 1884 – December 1962) was an American football player. Tripp attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he drew his attention for his talent as a football player. Tripp enrolled at the University of ...

, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) * F. Hobson, Penn (NYEP; NYG) *

Harry Von Kersberg Harry Edwin Von Kersburg (October 14, 1884 – 1951) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1913, compiling a record of 3–6. Kersburg was a ...

, Harvard (NYG) *

Elmer Thompson Elmer Thompson (c. 1885 – February 1929) was an American football player. He played for Cornell University from 1905 to 1907 and was selected as a first-team All-American in both 1906 and 1907. Biography Thompson grew up in Waterbury, Connect ...

, Cornell (WC-2) *

Henry Schulte Henry Frank Schulte (February 4, 1879 – October 18, 1944) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Schulte played football at Washington University in St. Louis from 1898 to 1900 and at ...

, Michigan (WC-2) * Albert M. Fletcher, Brown (WC-3) *

Tiny Maxwell Robert Wallace "Tiny" Maxwell (September 7, 1884 – June 30, 1922) was a professional football player and referee. He was also a sports editor with the ''Philadelphia Public Ledger''. Biography Early life Maxwell was born in Chicago on Septe ...

, Swarthmore (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; NYT)

Centers

Robert Torrey Robert Grant Torrey (July 12, 1878 – January 12, 1941) was an American football player and coach. He played center and was selected as the captain of the University of Pennsylvania's unbeaten teams of 1904 and 1905. When the Quakers went 12–0 ...

, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW; NYG) * Carl S. Flanders, Yale (WC-2) * Burton Pike Gale, Chicago (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

Walter Eckersall Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the ''Chicago Tribune''. He played for the Maroons of the University of Chicago, and was elected to the ...

, Chicago (WC-1; CW-1 b NYEP) *

Guy Hutchinson Guy Hutchinson (February 7, 1884 – December 9, 1941) was an American businessman and college football player. Hutchinson was born in New York City, and later moved to New Jersey. He was a graduate of Yale University in 1906. While attending t ...

, Yale (WC-2; CW-1; NYT; NYG) * Vince Stevenson, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYW) * Wilmer G. Crowell, Swarthmore (WC-3)

Halfbacks

* Jack Hubbard, Amherst (WC-1) * Daniel Hurley, Harvard (CW-1) *

Howard Roome Howard Le Chevalier Roome ( – April 1931) was an American football player. He played halfback for Yale University championship teams of 1905 and 1906 and was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1905. Roome graduated fro ...

, Yale (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYG) * Henry Torney, Army (CW-1; NYT b NYW b NYG b * Thomas Hammond, Michigan (WC-3; NYEP) * Main, Dartmouth (NYEP) *

George Walder George Henry Walder was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. ...

, Cornell (NYG) *

Samuel Finley Brown Morse Samuel Finley Brown Morse (July 18, 1885 – May 10, 1969) was an American environmental conservationist and the developer of Pebble Beach. He was known as the Duke of Del Monte and ran his company from the 1919 until his death in 1969. Origi ...

, Yale (WC-2; NYT; NYW) * H. W. Sheble, Penn (WC-2) *

A. H. Douglas Archibald Hugh "Toots" "Tootsie" Douglas (February 8, 1885 – December 12, 1972) was a college football and baseball player and distinguished veteran of World War II. He once commanded the aircraft carrier . He also served in World War I, as ...

, Navy (CW-2) *

Albion Findlay Albion G. Findlay (August 15, 1880 – July 21, 1959) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball coach. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin from 1902 to 1905 and was named to the 1905 College Footbal ...

, Wisconsin (WC-3)

Fullbacks

* James B. McCormick, Princeton (WC-1) * A. Rex Flinn, Yale (NYEP) * Phillip Von Saltza, Columbia (WC-2) *

Hugo Bezdek Hugo Francis Bezdek (April 1, 1884 – September 19, 1952) was a Czech American athlete who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon (1906, 1913– ...

, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1905 * WC = ''

'' as selected by

* CW =

for ''Outing'' magazine. Other selectors * NYEP = ''New York Evening Post''1905 Official NCAA Football Guide * NYT = ''New York Times'' * NYW = ''New York World'' * NYG = ''New York Globe'' Bold = Consensus All-American * 1 – First-team selection * 2 – Second-team selection * 3 – Third-team selection

References

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