1905 in sports

[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

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

Main article: Victorian Football League season 1905

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

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

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

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. ??)
April 8 — Bernt Evensen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 1979)
April 14 — Georg Lammers, German athlete (d. 1987)
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)
September 29 — Fidel La Barba, US boxer and sportswriter (d. 1981)
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)