1905 Wesleyan Methodists football team

1905 Wesleyan Methodists football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrus Field
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
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 7 – 0
Franklin & 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 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University during the 1905 college football season.[1] The team was led by Howard R. Reiter and posted a 7–2–1 record, losing only to national champion Yale in the first official week of play, before losing to Swarthmore in the final week of play. The game were played at Andrus Field, the oldest continuously used American football field in the world.[2][3] The team's quarterback was Hall of Famer Harry Van Surdam.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Connecticut
W 38–0
October 4at Yale
L 0–27[5]
October 7at Columbia
T 0–0[6]
October 14Vermont
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 19–11[7]
October 21at NYU
W 31–0[8]
October 28Union (NY)
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 26–5
November 4Tufts
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 27–5
November 11Williams
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 18–03,000[9]
November 18Susquehanna
  • Andrus Field
  • Middletown, CT
W 23–0[10]
November 25at Swarthmore
L 6–50[11]

References

  1. ^ "1905 Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Corwin Stadium at Andrus Field - Football". Wesleyan Athletics. Archived from the original on November 6, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Games Today at the Oldest Football Fields - 11/05/2011". Chattanoogan.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
  4. ^ "Dutch van Surdam, 90, in Grid Hall of Fame". The Times Record. March 27, 1972. p. 22.
  5. ^ "Yale, 27; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. October 5, 1905. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Wesleyan Ties Columbia: Neither Team Able to Score in Game at American League Park". New York Daily Tribune. October 8, 1905. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Wesleyan 19, Vermont 11". The Boston Globe. October 15, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Easy for Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 22, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Wesleyan Beats Williams". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 13, 1905. p. 6. Retrieved August 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
  10. ^ "Wesleyan Wins Again.—Defeats Susquehanna University Eleven, 23 to 0". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 20, 1905. p. 2. Retrieved August 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
  11. ^ "Wesleyan Easy for Swarthmore". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1905. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
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