1905 Wabash Little Giants football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Detroit College   –   1 – 0 – 0
Kansas   –   10 – 1 – 0
Central Michigan   –   7 – 1 – 0
Doane   –   5 – 1 – 0
Nebraska   –   9 – 2 – 0
Saint Louis   –   7 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   7 – 2 – 1
Kansas State   –   6 – 2 – 0
Northern Illinois State   –   3 – 1 – 1
Carthage   –   4 – 2 – 0
Iowa State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington University   –   7 – 3 – 2
Wittenberg   –   7 – 4 – 0
Heidelberg   –   6 – 4 – 0
Iowa State Normal   –   5 – 3 – 2
Cincinnati   –   5 – 3 – 0
Miami (OH)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Missouri   –   5 – 4 – 0
Notre Dame   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fairmount   –   5 – 4 – 1
Haskell   –   5 – 4 – 1
Lake Forest   –   6 – 5 – 0
Wabash   –   6 – 5 – 0
Drake   –   4 – 4 – 0
Michigan State Normal   –   4 – 4 – 0
Marquette   –   3 – 4 – 0
South Dakota State   –   2 – 3 – 0
Ohio   –   2 – 5 – 2
DePauw   –   3 – 6 – 0
Mount Union   –   2 – 6 – 0
North Dakota Agricultural   –   1 – 4 – 1
Baldwin–Wallace   –   0 – 1 – 0
Chicago P&S   –   0 – 1 – 0
St. Mary's (OH)   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1905 Wabash Little Giants football team represented Wabash College as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Frank Cayou, the Little Giants compiled a record of 6–5. The team managed one of its most impressive upsets when it defeated Notre Dame, 5–0, on October 21, at South Bend. It proved to be the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928.[1][2] Notre Dame had originally considered the game a "practice game" and expected to win easily when the game was scheduled the previous year, but began to take the team more seriously as the 1905 season developed.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 23Sheridan High School (IN)Crawfordsville, INW 80–0[4]
September 30at Chicago
L 0–15[5][6]
October 4at Illinois
L 0–6[7]
October 7at Northwestern
L 0–5[8]
October 14at Purdue
L 0–12[9]
October 21at Notre Dame
W 5–0[10]
October 27Franklin (IN)Crawfordsville, INW (forfeit)[11]
November 4Lake ForestCrawfordsville, INW 53–0[12]
November 11Knox (IL)Crawfordsville, INW 57–0[13]
November 18at IndianaBloomington, INL 0–40[14]
November 25DePauwCrawfordsville, INW 52–0[15]
November 30EarlhamCrawfordsville, INCancelled [16]

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Roster

References

  1. ^ Notre Dame Game-by-Game Results Archived October 3, 2002, at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 30, 2009.
  2. ^ Sideline Chatter (PDF), College Football Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1, November 2006.
  3. ^ "Notre Dame Respects the Wabash Eleven". The Indianapolis News. October 18, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  4. ^ "Avalanche Strikes Sheridan". The Indianapolis Star. September 24, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Maroons Win by 15 to 0: Stagg's Men Are Held to Small Score by Wabash". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. October 1, 1905. pp. 9, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Maroons Win By Score of 15 to 0". The Inter Ocean. October 1, 1905. pp. 13–15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Illinois Beats Wabash". The Muncie Morning Star. October 5, 1905. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Five Points for Purple: Northwestern Defeats Wabash by One Touchdown". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 8, 1905. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Boiler Makers Win First Big Contest: Purdue Defeats Wabash in Brilliant Game on Stuart Field by Score of 12 to 0". The Indianapolis Star. October 15, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Wabash Outplays Notre Dame". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 22, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved January 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ ""Little Giants" Are Angry". Indianapolis News. Indianapolis, Indiana. October 27, 1905. p. 12. Retrieved January 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Wabash Takes Easy Game". The Indianapolis Star. November 5, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Wabash Knocks Knox Silly". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 12, 1905. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Wabash Completely Routed By Indiana". The Indianapolis Star. November 19, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "De Pauw Snowed Under: Wabash Wins Game 52 to 0". The Indianapolis Star. November 26, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Called Off The Contest". The Evening Item. Richmond, Indiana. November 30, 1905. p. 5. Retrieved January 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "1905 Wabash Little Giants Schedule and Results - College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  18. ^ "1905 Wabash College Football Schedule". Wabash College Athletics. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  19. ^ "Wabash College Football History". Wabash College Athletics. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  20. ^ ""Little Giants," Wabash College, An Eleven Expected to Prove Sensation of Small Colleges of West". The Indianapolis News. September 23, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
  21. ^ "Star Players of Wabash Football Team". The Star Press. October 22, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved July 9, 2017.


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