1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League	NCAA
Sport	College football
Duration	September 23, 1905 through December 3, 1905
Number of teams	17
Regular Season
Season champions	Vanderbilt

1905 SIAA football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Vanderbilt $	6	–	0	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Georgia Tech	4	–	0	–	1	6	–	0	–	1
LSU	2	–	0	–	0	3	–	0	–	0
Davidson	1	–	0	–	0	2	–	5	–	0
Texas	2	–	1	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Clemson	3	–	2	–	1	3	–	2	–	1
Sewanee	2	–	2	–	1	4	–	2	–	1
Alabama	4	–	4	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Cumberland	2	–	2	–	0	4	–	4	–	0
Auburn	2	–	4	–	0	2	–	4	–	0
Mississippi A&M	1	–	3	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
Tennessee	0	–	4	–	1	3	–	5	–	1
Texas A&M	0	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Tulane	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	1	–	0
Ole Miss	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	2	–	0
Nashville	0	–	2	–	0	0	–	2	–	0
Georgia	0	–	4	–	0	1	–	5	–	0

$ – Conference champion

The 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season began on September 23 with conference member Texas A&M hosting the Houston YMCA.

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
September 23	Houston YMCA	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 29–0

Week Two

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
September 30	TCU	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 20–0
September 30	Tennessee Deaf School	Tennessee	15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN	W 16–6
September 30	Maryville	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 97–0

Week Three

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
October 3	Maryville	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, Alabama	W 17–0	^[1]
October 3	Cumberland	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	CUM 39–10
October 7	North Georgia	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 54–0
October 7	Davidson	North Carolina	Chapel Hill, NC	L 6–0
October 7	American Temperance	Tennessee	15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN	W 104–0
October 7	Alabama	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 34–0
October 7	TCU	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	W 11–0

Week Four

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 13	Haskell	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	L 18–0
October 14	Mississippi A&M	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	ALA 34–0
October 14	Vanderbilt	Michigan	Regents Field • Ann Arbor, MI	L 18–0
October 14	Mooney	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 42–0
October 14	Tennessee	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	T 5–5
October 14	Texas A&M	Baylor	Waco, TX	W 42–0
October 16	Oak Ridge	Davidson		L 75–0

Week Five

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 20	Davidson	Auburn	Birmingham, AL	DAV 6–0
October 20	Mississippi A&M	Marion	Marion, AL	W 38–0
October 21	Clemson	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	CLEM 35–0
October 21	Alabama	Georgia Tech	Brisbane Park • Atlanta, GA	GT 12–5
October 21	Cumberland	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	SEW 9–0
October 21	Vanderbilt	Tennessee	15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN	VAN 45–0
October 21	Baylor	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	W 39–0
October 21	Austin	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 18–11

Week Six

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 25	Alabama	Clemson	State Fairgrounds • Columbia, SC	CLEM 25–0
October 27	Auburn	Mississippi A&M	Columbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MS	AUB 18–0
October 27	Davidson	Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	L 11–0
October 28	Cumberland	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 18–0
October 28	Tennessee	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	SEW 11–6
October 28	Trinity (TX)	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 24–0
October 28	Texas	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 33–0

Week Seven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 31	Texas	Arkansas	The Hill • Fayetteville, AR	W 4–0
November 3	South Carolina	Davidson	Charlotte, NC	L 7–5
November 3	Texas	Oklahoma	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	L 2–0
November 4	Georgia	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	ALA 36–0
November 4	Tennessee	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 45–0
November 4	Auburn	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 54–0
November 4	TCU	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 24–11

Week Eight

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 9	Centre	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 21–0
November 10	Davidson	VMI	Lexington, VA	W 8–6
November 10	Kentucky University	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	L 6–0
November 11	Kentucky University	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	L 29–6
November 11	Clemson	Auburn	Auburn, AL	CLEM 6–0
November 11	Howard	Mississippi A&M	Hardy Field • Starkville, MS	W 44–0
November 11	North Georgia	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	W 16–12
November 11	Georgia Tech	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	T 18–18

Week Nine

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 17	Sewanee	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	SEW 17–10
November 18	Auburn	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	ALA 30–0	4,000	^[2]
November 18	Georgia	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 46–0
November 18	Baylor	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	W 17–5
November 18	Centre	Tennessee	15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN	W 31–5
November 18	Clemson	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 41–0
November 18	Cumberland	Mississippi A&M	Hardy Field • Starkville, MS	CUM 27–5
November 20	Cumberland	Ole Miss	Oxford, MS	CUM 18–0

Week Ten

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 22	Texas A&M	Texas	Clark Field • Austin, TX	TEX 27–0
November 23	Sewanee	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	SEW 42–6

Week Eleven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 29	Davidson	North Carolina A&M	Winston-Salem, NC	L 10–0
November 30	Tennessee	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	ALA 29–0
November 30	Auburn	Georgia	Macon, GA	AUB 20–0
November 30	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta, GA	GT 17–10
November 30	Mississippi A&M	Ole Miss	State Fairgrounds • Jackson, MS	MSA&M 11–0
November 30	Sewanee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 68–4
December 1	Mississippi A&M	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	LSU 15–0
December 3	Tennessee	Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	W 5–0

All-Southern team

Main article: 1905 College Football All-Southern Team

The composite All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Frank Kyle	5'11"	162	Sr.	Clay Co., Tennessee	Vanderbilt
HB	Honus Craig	5'9"	165	So.	Culleoka, Tennessee	Vanderbilt
HB	Dan Blake	5'11"	165	Jr.	Cuero, Texas	Vanderbilt
FB	Owsley Manier	6'2"	166	So.	Nashville, Tennessee	Vanderbilt
E	Bob Blake	6'0"	170	So.	Cuero, Texas	Vanderbilt
T	Hillsman Taylor	6'2"	182	Sr.	Trenton, Tennessee	Vanderbilt
G	Stein Stone	6'3"	180	So.	Nashville, Tennessee	Vanderbilt
C	Emma Patterson	5'11"	177	Jr.		Vanderbilt
G	Puss Derrick		195	Jr.	Chapin, South Carolina	Clemson
T	Frank Jones			Jr.	Brewton, Alabama	Auburn
E	Ed Hamilton	5'11"	164	Sr.	Franklin, Tennessee	Vanderbilt

References

↑ Christopher Walsh (September 1, 2007). "Saban's first game one of the most anticipated in Alabama history". Retrieved February 12, 2015.
↑ "Alabama vs. Auburn". Retrieved February 12, 2015.

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football

Conference presidents	W. L. Dudley (1894–1912) Walter Riggs (1912–1915) ? (1916) Buz M. Walker (1917) ? (1918) Henry D. Phillips (1919–1922) ? (1923–1926) J. W. Provine (1927–1942)

Former teams	Former SIAA teams

Championships & awards	SIAA football champions All-time standings All-Southern team

Seasons	1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

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