[1] Jack Owsley was the head coach, and Tom Shevlin was the team captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1905 for determining a national champion.
However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by Caspar Whitney and Parke H.
The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Guy Hutchinson, halfback Howard Roome, end Tom Shevlin, and guard Roswell Tripp.
[3] Other key players included halfback Samuel F. B. Morse and tackles Robert Forbes and Lucius Horatio Biglow.