The 1905 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose All-America college football teams for the 1905 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Caspar Whitney for Outing Magazine.
All-American selections for 1905
Ends
Mark Catlin Sr., Chicago (WC-2; CW-1) Ralph Glaze, Dartmouth (WC-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) Thomas Shevlin, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYG) Izzy Levene, Penn (WC-3; NYW; NYG) Bobby Marshall, Minnesota (WC-2) Norman Tooker, Princeton (WC-3) (died July 14, 1967, at Princeton Hospital)
Tackles
Karl Brill, Harvard (CW-1; NYW) Otis Lamson, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYW; NYG; NYEP; NYT; NYG) Beaton Squires, Harvard (WC-1) James Cooney, Princeton (NYT) Robert Forbes, Yale (WC-2) Joe Curtis, Michigan (WC-2) Wilson Bertke, Wisconsin (WC-3) Lucius Horatio Biglow, Yale (WC-3)
Guards Francis Burr, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYW) Roswell Tripp, Yale (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW) F. Hobson, Penn (NYEP; NYG) Harry von Kersburg, Harvard (NYG) Elmer Thompson, Cornell (WC-2) Henry Schulte, Michigan (WC-2) Albert M. Fletcher, Brown (WC-3) Tiny Maxwell, Swarthmore (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; NYT)
Centers Robert Torrey, Penn (WC-1; CW-1; NYEP; NYT; NYW; NYG) Carl S. Flanders, Yale (WC-2) Burton Pike Gale, Chicago (WC-3)
Quarterbacks
Walter Eckersall, Chicago (WC-1; CW-1 [fb]; NYEP) Guy Hutchinson, 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, Yale (WC-1; NYT; NYW; NYG) Henry Torney, Army (CW-1; NYT [fb]; NYW [fb]; NYG [fb]) Thomas Hammond, Michigan (WC-3; NYEP) David Main, Dartmouth (NYEP) George Walder, Cornell (NYG) Samuel Finley Brown Morse, Yale (WC-2; NYT; NYW) H. W. Sheble, Penn (WC-2) A. H. Douglas, Navy (CW-2) Albion Findlay, Wisconsin (WC-3)
Fullbacks James B. McCormick, Princeton (WC-1) A. Rex Flinn, Yale (NYEP) Philip von Saltza, Columbia (WC-2) Hugo Bezdek, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)
Key NCAA recognized selectors for 1905 WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp CW = Caspar Whitney for Outing magazine.
Other selectors NYEP = New York Evening Post1905 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
See also 1905 All-Southern college football team 1905 All-Western college football team
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