1905 in Sports - American Football

American Football

College championship

  • College football national championship – Chicago Maroons and Yale Bulldogs (shared)

Events

  • The college football season is blighted by a spate of serious injuries, some fatal, and U S President Theodore Roosevelt calls upon the game's authorities to reform it.

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