1905 Harvard Crimson football team

1905 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–2–1
Head coach	Bill Reid (2nd season)
Captain	Daniel Hurley
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium

1905 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					10	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	2
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					10	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					3	–	1	–	2
Holy Cross			–					6	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	0
Vermont			–					6	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					4	–	3	–	2
Army			–					4	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					5	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					3	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					6	–	7	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	6	–	0
Geneva			–					4	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	4	–	2
Springfield Training School			–					3	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	7	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	7	–	0

The 1905 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1905 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record under head coach Bill Reid, who had coached Harvard in 1901. Walter Camp selected two Harvard players (tackle Beaton Squires and guard Francis Burr) as first-team players on his 1905 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected three Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr, tackle Karl Brill and halfback Daniel Hurley.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 12–0
October 3		Bowdoin	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 16–0
October 7		Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 22–0
October 10		Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 34–6
October 14	3:00 p.m.	Springfield Training School	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 12–0	6,000
October 21		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 6–0
October 28		Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 10–0
November 4		Carlisle	Soldiers Field Boston, MA	W 23–11	20,000
November 11		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 6–12
November 18		Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 6–6
November 25		Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–6	43,000
All times are in Eastern time