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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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

    “The American people abhor a vacuum.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)