1905 in sports

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Years in sports:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

Contents 1 Baseball 2 Football (American) 3 Football (Australian rules football) 4 Football (soccer) 4.1 England 4.2 Turkey 5 Golf 6 Horse racing 7 Ice Hockey 8 Lacrosse 9 Births 10 Deaths

[edit] Baseball

• World Series - New York Giants (NL) defeat Philadelphia Athletics (AL), 4 games to 1, in the last "first" World Series — the first organized by the two modern leagues NL and AL

[edit] Football (American)

• The college football season is blighted by 15 fatal injuries and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt calls upon the game's authorities to reform it

[edit] Football (Australian rules football)

Main article: Victorian Football League season 1905

• Fitzroy wins the 9th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 4.6 (30) d Collingwood 2.5 (17))

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] England

• First Division - Newcastle United win the 1904-05 title.
• FA Cup - Aston Villa beat Newcastle United 2-0
• Alf Common becomes the first player ever to be transferred for £1000
• The First and Second divisions are both expanded from eighteen to twenty teams for the 1905-06 season, bringing the total number of League clubs to 40

[edit] Turkey

• The Turkish football club Galatasaray S.K. is founded in Istanbul. The year 1905 appears on the club's logo.

[edit] Golf

• June 6-9 British Open - James Braid
• September 20-22 U.S. Open - Willie Anderson

[edit] Horse racing

• May 10 - Agile wins the Kentucky Derby

[edit] Ice Hockey

• Ottawa Senators win their 3rd Stanley Cup, defeating the Rat Portage Thistles 2 games to 0

[edit] Lacrosse

• The Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) is replaced by the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, which was renamed the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) in 1929.

[edit] Births

• January 14 — Sven Rydell, Swedish football (soccer) player (d. 1975)
• January 28 — Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1939)
• March 30 — Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (d. 1998)
• April 8
  • Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. ??)
  • Bernt Evensen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 1979)
• April 14 — Georg Lammers, German athlete (d. 1987)
• April 20 — Jaap Meijer, Dutch track cyclist (d. 1943)
• May 6 — René Dreyfus, French racing driver (d. 1993)
• May 9 — Lili de Alvarez, Spanish multi-sport competitor, tennis champion, author and journalist (d. 1998)
• June 12 — Ray Barbuti, American athlete and American football player (d. 1988)
• July 16 — Richard Corts, German athlete (d. 1974)
• July 22 — Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
• August 28 — Cyril Walters, Welsh cricketer (died 1992)
• August 4 — Edgar Bruun, Norwegian race walker (d. 1985)
• September 19 — Akilles Järvinen, Finnish athlete (d. 1943)
• September 29
  • Fidel La Barba, US boxer and sportswriter (d. 1981)
  • Edith Mayne, British freestyle swimmer (d. ??)
• October 6 — Helen Wills, American tennis player (d. 1999)
• October 10 — Wally Berger, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• October 20 — Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965)
• December 1 — Alex Wilson, Canadian track and field athlete (d. 1994)

[edit] Deaths

• September 10, Pete Browning, American baseball player