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1905 Colgate football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Frank "Buck" O'Neill (3rd season)
Captain	Walter Runge
Home stadium	Whitnall Field
Seasons← 1904 1906 →

1905 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its third season under head coach Buck O'Neill, the team compiled a 5–4 record. Walter Runge was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

After the 1905 season, Buck O'Neill left Colgate to become head football coach at Syracuse. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 23	Cortland	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 59–0
September 30	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 11–12
October 5	St. Lawrence	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 50–0
October 7	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 6–18
October 14	at Dartmouth	Hanover, NH	W 16–10
October 21	at Syracuse	Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 5–11	8,000
November 4	Rochester	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 53–12
November 11	vs. Williams	Albany, NY	L 0–5
November 18	Hamilton	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 17–15

References

"2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
"1905 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
"Castleman's Great Run Feature of Ithaca Game". The Binghamton Press. October 2, 1905. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
"West Point, 18; Colgate, 6". The New York Times. October 8, 1905. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
"Beating for Dartmouth: Loses to Colgate in Fierce Game on Home Gridiron". New York Daily Tribune. October 15, 1905. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
"Hard Fought Game: Syracuse defeated Colgate 11 to 5; Teams evenly matched". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 22, 1905. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.

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