1905 Wesleyan Methodists football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–1
Head coach	Howard R. Reiter (3rd season)
Home stadium	Andrus 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 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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 30	Connecticut	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 38–0
October 4	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–27
October 7	at Columbia	American League Park New York, NY	T 0–0	^[5]
October 14	Vermont	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 19–11	^[6]
October 21	at NYU	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 31–0	^[7]
October 28	Union (NY)	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 26–5
November 4	Tufts	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 27–5
November 11	Susquehanna	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 22–0
November 18	Williams	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 18–0
November 25	at Swarthmore	Whittier Field Swarthmore, PA	L 6–50	^[8]

References

^ "1905 Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Schedule and Results".
^ "Corwin Stadium at Andrus Field - Football". Wesleyan Athletics. Archived from the original on November 6, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
^ "Games Today at the Oldest Football Fields - 11/05/2011". Chattanoogan.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
^ "Dutch van Surdam, 90, in Grid Hall of Fame". The Times Record. March 27, 1972. p. 22.
^ "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.
^ "Wesleyan 19, Vermont 11". The Boston Globe. October 15, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Easy for Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 22, 1905. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Wesleyan Easy for Swarthmore". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1905. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.

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