1905 Detroit College Tigers football team

1905 Detroit College Tigers football
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1905 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Detroit College     1 0 0
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
Northern Illinois State     3 1 1
Carthage     4 2 0
Western Illinois     4 2 0
Iowa State     6 3 0
Washington University     7 3 2
Wittenberg     7 4 0
Heidelberg     6 4 0
Iowa State Normal     5 3 2
Cincinnati     5 3 0
Miami (OH)     4 3 0
Missouri     5 4 0
Notre Dame     5 4 0
Fairmount     5 4 1
Haskell     5 4 1
Lake Forest     6 5 0
Wabash     6 5 0
Drake     4 4 0
Michigan State Normal     4 4 0
Marquette     3 4 0
South Dakota State     2 3 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
Chicago P&S     0 1 0
St. Mary's (OH)     0 3 0

The 1905 Detroit College Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Detroit College (renamed the University of Detroit in 1911) as an independent during the 1905 college football season. Jerry Girardin was hired in mid-October as the team's head coach.[1] The team initially had a schedule with six opponents.[2] However, on November 9, the college's president, Rev. Kellinger, refused to allow the football team to play the Detroit University School and declared that football "as it is played today is altogether too rough" and that the game was also too expensive.[3] In response, coach Girardin said he would never coach a team of the college again. The team was then disbanded.[3]

  1. ^ "College Secures a Coach". Detroit Free Press. October 15, 1905. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference GS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "College Disbands as Result of Prohibition of D.U.S. Game Though All Other Contests Were Approved". Detroit Free Press. November 10, 1905. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.