1905 Wabash Little Giants football team

The 1905 Wabash Little Giants football team represented Wabash College during the 1905 college football season.[1] Although the team ended the season with six wins and six losses,[2] the team managed one of its most impressive upsets when it defeated Notre Dame, 5–0, at South Bend. It proved to be the Fighting Irish's only home-field loss in 125 games between 1899 and 1928.[3][4] 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.[5]

1905 Wabash Little Giants football
Conference	Independent
1905 record	6–6
Head coach	Frank Cayou (2nd season)

1905 Midwestern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
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
Iowa State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Wittenberg			–					7	–	4	–	0
Heidelberg			–					6	–	4	–	0
Iowa State Normal			–					5	–	3	–	2
Cincinnati			–					4	–	3	–	0
Missouri			–					5	–	4	–	0
Notre Dame			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fairmount			–					5	–	4	–	1
Lake Forest			–					6	–	5	–	0
Michigan State Normal			–					4	–	4	–	0
Wabash			–					6	–	6	–	0
Marquette			–					3	–	4	–	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
St. Mary's (OH)			–					0	–	3	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
	Butler	Crawfordsville, IN	L 0–6
September 23	Sheridan HS (IN)	Crawfordsville, IN	W 80–0[6]
September 30	at Chicago	Marshall Field Chicago, IL	L 0–15[7]
October 4	at Illinois	Illinois Field Champaign, IL	L 0–6[8]
October 7	at Northwestern	Northwestern Field Evanston, IL	L 0–5[9]
October 14	at Purdue	Stuart Field West Lafayette, IN	L 0–12[10]
October 21	at Notre Dame	Cartier Field South Bend, IN	W 5–0[11]
October 28	Earlham	Crawfordsville, IN	W 11–6
November 4	Lake Forest	Crawfordsville, IN	W 53–0[12]
November 11	Knox (IL)	Crawfordsville, IN	W 57–0[13]
November 18	at Indiana	Bloomington, IN	L 0–40[14]
November 25	DePauw	Crawfordsville, IN	W 52–0[15]

table reference[1]

Roster

• Shank, Right end
• Knudsen, Right tackle
• Hess, Right guard
• Brown, Center
• Sprow, Center
• Sutherland, Left guard
• Williams, Left tackle
• Frurip, Left end
• Miller, Quarterback
• Myers, Right halfback
• Harp, Left back
• Spaulding, Left halfback and team captain[16][17]

References

1. "1905 Wabash Little Giants Schedule and Results - College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. Notre Dame Game-by-Game Results Archived 2002-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved June 30, 2009.
4. Sideline Chatter (PDF), College Football Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1, November 2006.
5. "Notre Dame Respects the Wabash Eleven". The Indianapolis News. October 18, 1905. p. 10. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
6. "Avalanche Strikes Sheridan". The Indianapolis Star. September 24, 1905. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Maroons Win By 15 to 0". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 1, 1905. pp. 1, 3 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Illinois Beats Wabash". The Muncie Morning Star. October 5, 1905. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Five Points for Purple: Northwestern Defeats Wabash by One Touchdown". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 8, 1905. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "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.
11. "Wabash Outplays Notre Dame". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 22, 1905. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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. ""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.
17. "Star Players of Wabash Football Team". The Star Press. October 22, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved July 9, 2017.