1905 Arkansas Cardinals football team

1905 Arkansas Cardinals football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Jett
Home stadiumThe Hill
Seasons
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1905 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tusculum     1 0 0
Stetson     4 0 1
VPI     9 1 0
Navy     10 1 1
Grant     6 1 0
Kentucky University     7 0 3
Oklahoma     7 2 0
Washington and Lee     7 2 0
Texas A&M     7 2 0
Marshall     6 2 0
North Carolina A&M     4 1 1
West Virginia     6 3 0
Kentucky State College     6 3 1
South Carolina     4 2 1
Maryland     6 4 0
Central State Normal     4 3 1
North Carolina     4 3 1
Virginia     5 4 0
Catholic University     0 0 1
TCU     4 4 0
Delaware     3 4 1
The Citadel     2 3 1
Richmond     3 5 2
George Washington     3 4 2
Davidson     3 4 0
Howard (AL)     1 2 1
VMI     2 5 1
Oklahoma A&M     1 4 2
Arkansas     2 6 0
Kendall     1 3 0
Georgetown     2 7 0
Goldey College     1 4 0
Baylor     1 6 0
Louisiana Industrial     0 1 0

The 1905 Arkansas Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1905 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Ancil D. Brown, the Razorbacks compiled a 2–6 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 50 to 32.

At the outset, the University of Arkansas being known as the "Arkansas Cardinals" is in all likelihood a misnomer. The "cardinal" referred to the color cardinal and not the red bird. Moreover, as early as the first game of the 1905 season, news media reports specifically refer to the University of Arkansas football team as the "Razorbacks", pre-dating the University of Arkansas' official statement regarding how the University of Arkansas became the Razorbacks.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ http://www.hogdb.com/2013/04/07/origin-of-arkansas-cardinal-leads-to-razorbacks/ Hog Database | Origin of Arkansas "Cardinal" Leads to Razorbacks by Sharp Williams
  2. ^ http://www.hogdb.com/2012/06/06/the-razorbacks-came-before-bezdek/ Hog Database | "The Razorbacks" Came Before Bezdek as Early as 1905
  3. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fY9WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eUENAAAAIBAJ&dq=razorbacks&pg=1300%2C5956003/ Lawrence Daily World, May 13, 1907 via Google News Archive (see several inches below link)