1904 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1904 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Oregon
This election would solidify Oregon as a one-party Republican bastion, which it would remain at a Presidential level apart from the 1910s GOP split until Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to power in 1932, and apart from a very short New Deal interlude at state level until the “Revolution of 1954”. Democratic representation in the Oregon legislature would never exceed fifteen percent during this period, and no Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson would henceforth carry even one county in the state before the Great Depression. Republican primaries would become the chief mode of competition: indeed Oregon became in this election year the first Western state to utilize the direct primary.


1904 United States presidential election in Oregon
President Roosevelt was extremely popular in Oregon because of his policies of reforming the railroads, creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and conserving the forest resources that were at the time heavily exploited by big business. Parker's re-emphasis on the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Oregon. Nor did his opposition to Roosevelt's policy of imperialism in the Pacific, with the result that Parker's showing was the worst-ever by any major-party nominee in Oregon except for his mentor Cleveland twelve years previously. At the same time, Roosevelt's performance remains the best ever by any Presidential candidate since Oregon's statehood in 1859. Parker did not win thirty percent in a single county, and overall took just a little over nineteen percent of Oregon's ballots.


1904 United States presidential election in Oregon
Socialist nominee Eugene V. Debs, whose campaign focused on trust-busting and the evils of monopoly, traveled all around the nation in a charismatic campaign that netted him over four hundred thousand votes nationwide. Although he did not outpoll Parker in any Oregon county, Debs nonetheless received over eight percent of the vote.


1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 34 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 40.67%. His record is the best presidential performance in Pennsylvania election history, and Parker carried just 6 rural counties largely populated either by Pennsylvania German voters historically opposed to the Civil War and to the pietism of the Republican Party, or by Appalachian mountaineers sympathetic to the South in that war. Roosevelt was the first ever Republican victor in the historically Democratic counties of Northampton and Sullivan in the anti-Yankee northeast and German Lutheran York in the Appalachian south.


1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Rhode Island by a margin of 24.42%.


1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 8, 1904. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker, over the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt. Parker won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 90.74%, due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the Republican Party's sole support in the state.


1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota
The 1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. The ticket won the state by a margin of 49.42%.


1904 United States presidential election in South Dakota
With 71.09% of the popular vote, South Dakota would be Roosevelt's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota and Minnesota.


1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.


1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state’s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction. After the disfranchisement of the state’s African-American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s, the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united, although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support.


1904 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Background and vote
Although the GOP had lost by only single figures in the previous two elections, the shift to a more conservative Democratic candidate and opposition to Roosevelt’s hosting of Booker T. Washington meant that the state swung slightly – though significantly given the extremely deep partisan loyalties – against the GOP to Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.


1904 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1904 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Texas voters chose 18 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Texas
Texas was won by the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Henry G. Davis of West Virginia. As of the 2020 election, this was the last election which Duval County voted for the Republican candidate.


1904 United States presidential election in Utah
The 1904 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 8, 1904, throughout all forty-five contemporary states as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background
In its first presidential election during its statehood year, Utah – with its large reserves of silver – had voted five-to-one for Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, who ran on a platform of monetizing silver. However, with a revived economy, Utah moved much closer to the national mainstream in the ensuring 1900 election, as pre-statehood Republican Party hostility to the dominant LDS church gradually disappeared after the outlawing of polygyny in 1890.


1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background
In between Utah’s second and third presidential elections, newly elected but unseated senator and Mormon apostle Reed Smoot went much further towards reversing the nineteenth-century hostility of the Republican Party to the Latter Day Saints. At a time when most traditional Protestant congressmen were opposed to Smoot being seated because religious influence was feared, Mormon prophet and LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith said explicitly that members of the LDS Church should in political matters obey their consciences. Smoot – although a Republican – had been targeted by both major parties in the two years between his election by the Utah Legislature in 1902 and the 1904 presidential campaign, but he corresponded consistently with incumbent president Roosevelt.


1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background
Smoot’s work was one factor allowing Roosevelt to sweep twenty-six of Utah’s twenty-seven contemporary counties and carry the state by 28.55 percentage points, which even in the largest landslide since the beginning of widespread popular voting for presidential electors made Utah 9.73 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Another was that Parker himself was hostile to Mormon polygyny, still another was the popularity in the West of Roosevelt’s conservation and trust-busting policies.


1904 United States presidential election in Utah, Background
Roosevelt’s percentage of the popular vote and margin would be bettered by no Republican in Utah until Dwight D. Eisenhower’s re-election in 1956.


1904 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1904 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President Theodore Roosevelt, over the Democratic nominee, former Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt won Vermont by a landslide margin of 59.13%.


1904 United States presidential election in Vermont
With 77.97% of the popular vote, Vermont would be Roosevelt's strongest victory in terms of percentage of the popular vote.


1904 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1904 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia voted for the Democratic candidate, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker over the Republican candidate, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt. Parker won the state by a margin of 24.90%.


1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The 1904 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
This election would solidify the State of Washington as a one-party Republican bastion, which it would remain at a Presidential level apart from the 1910s GOP split until Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to power in 1932, and more or less continuously at state level during this era. Democratic representation in the Washington legislature would during this period at times be countable on one hand, and no Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson in 1916 would henceforth carry even one county in the state before Catholic Al Smith carried German-settled Ferry County in 1928. Republican primaries would take over as the chief mode of political competition when introduced later in the decade.


1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
President Roosevelt was extremely popular in Washington State because of his policies of reforming the railroads, creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and conserving the forest resources that were at the time heavily exploited by big business. Parker's re-emphasis on the Gold Standard, which harked back to Grover Cleveland, aroused no enthusiasm in Washington State. Nor did Parker's opposition to Roosevelt's policy of imperialism in the Pacific, with the result that Roosevelt's performance remains the best ever by any Presidential candidate since Washington's statehood in 1889.


1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Parker did not win one third of the vote in a single county, and overall took just a little over nineteen percent of Washington State's ballots. In fact, with 69.95% of the popular vote, Washington would be Roosevelt's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota.


1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Socialist nominee Eugene V. Debs, whose campaign focused on trust-busting and the evils of monopoly, travelled all around the nation in a charismatic campaign that netted him over four hundred thousand votes nationwide and almost nine percent in radical Washington State. In two counties Debs indeed outpolled Parker – a fate that would befall several other Democratic nominees in the state during the next two decades.


1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 8, 1904. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1904 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Despite the 13 point victory in the state, it was 5% more Democratic than the national average, making the state close by comparison to the national standard of margin.


1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1904 as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote
Wisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas. However, following the Populist movement, whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics, Wisconsin’s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan’s agrarian and free silver sympathies.


1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote
Wisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoining Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the state. As Democratic strength weakened severely after 1894 – although the state did develop a strong Socialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP – Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the “League” under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative “Regular” faction.


1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote
Neither Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt nor Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker would campaign in Wisconsin, as the state had been amongst the most Republican in the nation in the presidential elections in both 1896 and 1900. No official polls were taken in the state, but Frederick W. Cotzhausen, a lifelong Milwaukee Democrat, said during October that the state would vote strongly for Roosevelt.


1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background and vote
Wisconsin would vote powerfully for Roosevelt, who defeated Parker more than two-to-one, and beat William McKinley’s 1896 performance by almost four percent. Roosevelt was the first Republican to carry Calumet County.


1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 1904, as part of the 1904 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1904 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by the Secretary of War Theodore Roosevelt (R–New York), running with the 26th Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, with 66.72 percent of the popular vote, against Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton Parker (D–New York), running with Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, with 29.08 percent of the popular vote.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team
The 1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team represented the University of Florida in Lake City in the sport of American football during the 1904 college football season. This was neither the modern University of Florida nor the modern Florida Gators, but a team fielded by one of its four predecessor institutions that had been known as Florida Agricultural College until 1903. The were led by player-coach Marvin O. Bridges, whose brothers also played on the squad.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team
In an attempt to grow the previously semi-organized football program and make it more competitive with established programs across the south, the Blue and White scheduled the most challenging slate of opponents of any Florida school up to that time. The squad struggled as a result, going winless and failing to score a single point in five games.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team
The difficult 1904 season would be the final campaign for the program, as the University of Florida in Lake City ceased to exist after the 1904-1905 school term. The Florida legislature consolidated the school with three other state-supported institutions per the Buckman Act of 1905 to establish the modern University of Florida in Gainesville. When the new university first fielded a football team in 1906, no players or coaches from the 1904 Blue and White were associated with the program.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Before the season
Various public and private colleges in Florida had organized football teams before 1904, but the programs were informal, and schedules usually consisted of a few games played against in-state colleges and local athletic clubs in venues that were little more than open fields. The University of Florida at Lake City sought to jump-start its football program by playing the most ambitious schedule of any Florida school to date. The "Blue and White" had never faced off against an out of state opponent, but they assembled a 1904 slate which featured road games against several established southern football programs, including Mike Donahue's first Auburn squad and John Heisman's first team at Georgia Tech.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1904 Schedule
The entire schedule was played in October. To reduce travel costs, the team played four road games during a two and a half week train trek through Alabama and Georgia. They returned to Lake City in mid-October and concluded the season with their lone home game, a match-up with in-state rival Florida State College on October 21. The slate proved too ambitious for the fledgling program, as the squad went winless and did not score a single point over the entire season.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Alabama
The season opened with a 29–0 loss to Alabama. Touchdowns were scored by William LaFayette Ward (2), Chamberlain, Auxford Burks and Frank Clark.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Alabama
The starting lineup was: Weller (left end), Buck (left tackle), T. Cason (left guard), Keene (center), Bratton (right guard), T. McGuire (right tackle), B. H. Bridges (right end), McDonnell (quarterback), R. Cason (left halfback), B. T. Bridges (right halfback), C. McGuire (fullback).


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Auburn
The October 4, 1904 game against the University of Florida was considered a practice game by Auburn and is not included in the Tiger's official record of 5–0 for the season.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida-Georgia dispute
The Florida team next traveled to Macon, Georgia to face the Georgia Bulldogs and lost 52-0. The University of Georgia still counts this game as a win against the Florida Gators even though the modern University of Florida did not yet exist, adding another layer of intrigue to the Florida–Georgia football rivalry. UGA sports historian Dan Magill sums up Georgia's attitude: "That's where Florida was back then. We can't help it if they got run out of Lake City."


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
Only a single first down was scored on Tech, a 77–0 loss. The starting lineup was: Zealius (left end), Bratton (left tackle), T. McGuire (left guard), Keene (center), O'Berry (right guard), Rowlett (right tackle), R. Woller (right end), R. Cason (quarterback), Clarke (left halfback), Bridges (right halfback), C. McGuire (fullback)


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida State College
The Blue and White had reason for optimism coming into their last game of the season against the Florida State College Eleven (FSC). They were finally playing a home game, they had beaten FSC in Lake City in 1902, and FSC had been beaten soundly by Georgia Tech in the only game they'd played of their 1904 slate. This was not first meeting between FSC's player-coach Jack Forsythe and Marvin Bridges, his counterpart for the Blue and White; Forsythe was a player on the Clemson Tigers team that tied Bridges' Cumberland Bulldogs in a 1903 battle which was dubbed the SIAA championship game.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, Game summaries, Florida State College
Their 1904 match-up was not nearly as close; the Blue and White were shut out again and lost 23-0. As a newspaper account reported, "The people of Lake City had expected at least one victory after a long series of defeats encountered by the university and were greatly disappointed. The university should be made stronger before it attempts to play again." FSC would go on to beat Stetson and lay claim to a "state championship".


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season
1905 was a year of transition. The Florida legislature had completely reorganized the state's system of higher education with the passage of the Buckman Act. The University of Florida in Lake City was consolidated with three other state colleges (including Florida State College) to form the new "University of the State of Florida", a school for men in Gainesville, while the campus of Florida State College in Tallahassee was transformed into a school for women. Construction began immediately on a new campus in Gainesville, but it would not be ready until the fall of 1906, so classes were offered at the existing Lake City campus during the 1905–06 academic year.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season
The hybrid University of Florida in Lake City attempted to field a football team in the fall of 1905 but was unsuccessful. Five contests against small colleges in Florida and Georgia were scheduled, but four were cancelled because too many players were deemed to be "behind in their studies" by university president Andrew Sledd, who sought to increase the academic rigor of the new institution. The last game of the 1905 season against the Julian London Institute kicked off in Jacksonville but was never completed. Florida's squad refused to take the field for the second half after discovering that the opposing team included a professional player, and the game was suspended with Florida leading 6-0.


1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team, 1905 season
The University of the State of Florida completed its move to Gainesville for the 1906–07 academic year. When the school finally completed its first football game on October 13, 1906, their coach was former FSC head coach Jack Forsythe, and no player who had played a game for the Lake City Blue and White was on the roster.


1904 University of New Mexico football team
The 1904 University of New Mexico football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Walter McEwan, the team compiled a 1–0 record.


1904 University of Utah football team
The 1904 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its first season under head coach Joe Maddock, the team compiled a 7–1 record, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 301 to 38. Quarterback Jimmy Wade was the team captain.


1904 University of Utah football team
The team shut out three opponents in eight days in three cities: on October 29 at Denver (12–0); on October 31 at Wyoming (23–0); and on November 5 at home against the soldiers from Fort Douglas (107–5). The team's 107 points against Fort Douglas was a school record at the time and remains the second-highest point total in school history.


1904 University of Utah football team
On November 19, 1904, Fred Bennion kicked a 55-yard field goal that was a school record until 1971.


1904 University of Utah football team
Coach Maddock had been a star tackle on Michigan's 1902 and 1903 Point-a-Minute teams. Maddock was hired in February 1904 by University of Utah president Kingsbury upon the recommendation of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost. Maddock was promised "complete control" of the Utah football team after graduating from Michigan in June. Maddock arrived in Salt Lake City to begin his coaching responsibilities on September 10, 1904.


1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College (later renamed Utah State University) as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third season under head coach George P. Campbell, the Aggies compiled a 4–8 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 253 to 63.


1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team
The season featured a three-week trip to the west coast during which the Aggies played and lost five road games against Washington (0–45), Oregon Agricultural (0–45), Multnomah Athletic Club (0-29), Stanford (0-57), and Nevada (5-24). Prior to 1904, the Aggies had never played a game outside the state of Utah and had never played more than six games in a season.


1904 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team
Fullback Roy Egbert was one of the bright spots in the Aggies' 1904 season. At the end of the season, he was chosen by his teammates to be captain of the 1905 team.


1904 Utah gubernatorial election
The 1904 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Republican nominee John Christopher Cutler defeated Democratic nominee James Moyle with 49.97% of the vote.


1904 VFA season
The 1904 Victorian Football Association season was the 28th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club in controversial circumstances, after minor premiers Richmond forfeited the challenge final in protest at the appointment of umpire. It was North Melbourne's second premiership in a row.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season
The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
The challenge final for the major premiership was scheduled for Saturday, 1 October at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. However, on Wednesday 27 September, Richmond informed the Association that it would not play the final if Mr Allen was appointed as the umpire. The Association refused to appoint an alternative umpire, so Richmond refused to play; accordingly, the match was scratched and North Melbourne was awarded the premiership.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
Allen was regarded by all of the clubs in the Association, including Richmond, as one of its most competent and unbiased decision-makers, and he was accordingly appointed to umpire in all four finals in 1904; but he had drawn criticism for his poor control over rough play in two of the semi-finals, which ultimately led to Richmond's protest.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
Before the third quarter in the semi-final between Richmond and North Melbourne on 10 September, Richmond accused several of the North Melbourne players of wearing iron spikes in their boots, and raised its complaint with Allen. North Melbourne captain Noonan refused to allow Allen to inspect his players' boots, and after a delay of about fifteen minutes, play resumed without North Melbourne's boots having been inspected. Richmond went on to lodge a complaint to the Association against Allen for failing to insist upon the inspection.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
According to Association secretary Mr T. J. Evans, Allen had inspected the North Melbourne players' boots prior to the team leaving the pavilion, and that Noonan had refused to submit to a second inspection on the grounds that it was only minutes later. Noonan was reprimanded by the Association for the refusal.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
Allen was formally appointed as umpire for the challenge final on Wednesday, 14 September, with no objections from the Richmond delegate present at the appointment. During the week, Allen personally received a sarcastic letter from Richmond secretary, Mr Peckham-Beachcroft, in which was enclosed a book of rules; this letter was submitted by Allen to an Association general meeting on Saturday 17 September. On Tuesday, 20 September, the Association first received correspondence from Richmond regarding its complaint against Allen's handling of the boot inspection in the semi-final; the letter was dated Tuesday 13 September. On Saturday 26 September, Allen umpired the semi-final between Footscray and North Melbourne, and attracted heavy criticism for keeping poor control over the game, allowing too much rough play, and permitting North Melbourne to engage in persistent time-wasting tactics.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
According to Peckham-Beachcroft, the Richmond captain and several of its players had become concerned about Allen's lack of control over the game, so they did not wish to take the field against North Melbourne under those circumstances. As a result, the committee informed the Association on Wednesday 27 September that it would not play the match unless Allen's appointment as umpire were overturned and he be replaced by another candidate. Richmond lobbied the Association to make a new appointment to as late as the evening of Friday 30 September, but the Association refused to do so.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
This was in large part because there had been no procedural irregularity with Allen's appointment; Richmond had objected to Allen's performances by letter, but the Richmond delegate present at Allen's appointment had raised no objections. Some delegates, most vocally Mr Harris from West Melbourne, were also motivated by ensuring that one club should not be allowed to dictate to the entire Association.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
As gate takings from finals were divided amongst the clubs, Richmond's refusal to play had a financial impact felt across all ten clubs. Williamstown, for example, recorded in its 1905 annual general meeting that its bank balance was almost £20 poorer as a direct result of the cancelled final.


1904 VFA season, Premiership season, Final
This incident remains the only time that an Association team has forfeited a premiership-deciding final. Port Melbourne nearly staged a walk-off during the second quarter of the 1967 Division 1 Grand Final which would have resulted in a forfeit, but in that case the club committee intervened to ensure the team continued to play.


1904 VFL Grand Final
The 1904 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 17 September 1904. It was the seventh annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1904 VFL season. The match, attended by 32,688 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 24 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.


1904 VFL Grand Final, Right to challenge
This season was played under the amended Argus system. Fitzroy was the minor premier, and Carlton had finished second. The teams both qualified for this match by winning their semi-finals matches.


1904 VFL Grand Final, Right to challenge
If Carlton had won this match, Fitzroy would have had the right to challenge Carlton to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because Fitzroy had the best record in the league. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.


1904 VFL season
The 1904 Victorian Football League season was the eighth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1904 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1904, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.


1904 VFL season, Premiership season
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.


1904 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1904 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".


1904 VFL season, Grand final
Fitzroy defeated Carlton 9.7 (61) to 5.7 (37). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1904 VMI Keydets football team
The 1904 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their 14th season of organized football. The Keydets compiled a 3–5 record in Bill Roper's second and last season as head coach.


1904 VPI football team
The 1904 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1904 college football season. The team was led by their head coach John C. O'Connor and finished with a record of five wins and three losses (5–3).


1904 VPI football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1904 football team according to the roster published in the 1905 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his first season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record of 9–0.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1904 Vanderbilt team scored an average of 52.7 points per game, the most in college football that season, and allowed just four points, all surrendered in their game against Missouri-Rolla. The team had a strong claim to the Southern championship, as the elevens of Georgetown and Virginia played few southern schools.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season
The Commodores hired former Michigan guard Dan McGugin, a protege and son-in-law of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost. Like Yost, McGugin utilized a short punt formation. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff once wrote "The plain facts of the business are that McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput... There was no foeman worthy of the McGugin steel."


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Before the season
Vanderbilt alumnus Myles P. O'Connor wrote of Dan Blake, who "played left half for Vanderbilt, '04, being taken from left end, which position he played in '03. End is his position; he is heavy, weighing about 170, is fast, a good tackler, advances the ball well, and is a fair punter."


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi A&M
In his first career game, McGugin's team defeated Mississippi A&M, 61–0.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Georgetown
In the second week of play, Georgetown of Kentucky was defeated 66–0.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi
Vanderbilt defeated Mississippi 69–0. Both sides had players removed for roughness. "The whole South read that  69–0 score and gasped." McGugin remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Mississippi
The starting lineup was D. Blake (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Sibley (left guard), Stone (center), Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), I. Brown (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Costen (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Missouri Mines
The Commodores beat the Missouri Mines 29–4. All scoring was done in the first half. The Missouri school once got the ball on Vanderbilt's 8-yard line. Unable to go any further, Wilson dropped back and made an 18-yard drop kick, the only points scored on the Commodores all season.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Missouri Mines
The starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Stone (center), Sibley (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Costen (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Hamilton (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Centre
Vanderbilt easily beat Centre 97–0. The first score came on Vanderbilt's kickoff to Centre. Dan Blake recovered the ball for a touchdown.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Centre
The starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee
The Commodores defeated the rival Vols 22–0. Ed Hamilton and Manier alternated against Jones Beene, easily taking care of him.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Tennessee
The starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Pritchard (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Nashville
Vanderbilt defeated the Nashville Garnet and Blue 81–0. Capt Biddle of the Nashville team said "We were outclassed too far in weight, besides were not as aggressive as Vanderbilt. Their line bucking was not to be denied, and after they had thrown their weight on our line, it weakened and went to pieces."


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Nashville
The starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), B. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Haygood (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee
Vanderbilt faced rival and previously undefeated Sewanee Tigers for the championship of the south. Vanderbilt won 27–0. Vanderbilt's backfield starred. Dan Blake had many gains, and Honus Craig twice had his jersey torn from his body. The 6,500 attendants  made the crowd a sea of colors.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season summary, Sewanee
The starting lineup was I. Brown (left end), Taylor (left tackle), Stone (left guard), Patterson (center), T. Brown (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Hamilton (right end), Kyle (quarterback), Blake (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Manier (fullback).


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Postseason
A postseason match between Vanderbilt and Auburn to decide a Southern championship was forbidden by the SIAA.


1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Personnel, Depth chart
The following chart provides a visual depiction of Vanderbilt's lineup during the 1904 season with games started at the position reflected in parenthesis. The chart mimics a short punt formation while on offense, with the quarterback under center.


1904 Vermont Green and Gold football team
The 1904 Vermont Green and Gold football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In their third year under head coach Harry Howard Cloudman, the team compiled a 1–5–2 record.


1904 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1904 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on September 6, 1904. Incumbent Republican John G. McCullough, per the "Mountain Rule", did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Charles J. Bell defeated Democratic candidate Eli H. Porter to succeed him.


1904 Victorian state election
The 1904 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on 1 June 1904 to elect 55 of the 67 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The other 12 seats were uncontested. The election was in one and two member districts, using first past the post (plurality) voting.


1904 Victorian state election
It was the first election to be held since the passing of the Constitution Act 1903 (also known as the "Constitution Reform Act"). Its changes included reducing the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 95 to 67. In addition to the geographically defined electorates, there was now a single member "public officers and railway officers" electorate in the Legislative Council; and a one-member "public officers" and a two-member "railway officers" electorate in the Legislative Assembly. Members of the public service had previously not been eligible to stand as candidates without first resigning. Under the changes, they could stand while a state employee, and if successful in winning a seat, would have a leave of absence while an MP.


1904 Victorian state election, Background
Ministerialists were a group of members of parliament who supported a government in office but were not bound by tight party discipline. Ministerialists represented loose pre-party groupings who held seats in state parliaments up to 1914. Such members ran for office as independents or under a variety of political labels but saw themselves as linked to other candidates by their support for a particular premier or government.


1904 Victorian state election, Background
Thomas Bent was elected on 16 February 1904 leader of the Commonwealth Liberal Party, replacing Premier William Irvine who went into federal politics, and went into the election as the incumbent Premier. At the June 1904 election Bent won a comfortable majority with 35 of the 67 seats, and the Labour Party became the second largest party in the Assembly with 17 seats.


1904 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
Victorian state election, 1 June 1904Legislative Assembly << 1902–1907 >>


1904 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1904 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1904 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Patrick O'Connor.


1904 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1904 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 1904 college football season.


1904 WAFA season
The 1904 WAFA season was the 20th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia.


1904 Wabash Little Giants football team
The 1904 Wabash College football team was an American football team that represented Wabash College during the 1904 college football season. In Frank Cayou's first season as head coach, the team compiled a 4–4 record. This was the year Wabash adopted the Little Giants name.


1904 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team
The 1904 Washington & Jefferson football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Led by third-year head coach William B. Seaman, the team compiled a record of 5–3–1.


1904 Washington Agricultural football team
The 1904 Washington Agricultural football team was an American football team that represented Washington Agricultural College during the 1904 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Everett Sweeley, and compiled a record of 2–2.


1904 Washington Senators season
The 1904 Washington Senators won 38 games, lost 113, and finished in eighth place in the American League. They were managed by Malachi Kittridge and Patsy Donovan and played home games at National Park.


1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1904 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1904 Washington football team
The 1904 Washington football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1904 college football season. In its third season under coach James Knight, the team compiled a 4–2–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 113 to 66. Fred McElmon was the team captain for the second time, having also been captain in 1902.


1904 Washington gubernatorial election
The 1904 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.


1904 Washington gubernatorial election
Republican nominee Albert E. Mead defeated Democratic nominee George Turner and Socialist nominee David Burgess, with 51.34% of the vote.


1904 Washington gubernatorial election, Bibliography
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1904 Wellington City mayoral election
The 1904 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1904 Wellington City mayoral election, Background
In 1904 John Aitken, the incumbent Mayor, was re-elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating challenges from both Thomas Wilford and Thomas William Hislop.


1904 West Cavan by-election
The West Cavan by-election, 1904 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of West Cavan on 11 June 1904. The election was caused by the death of the sitting member, Thomas McGovern) of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Only one candidate was nominated, Vincent Kennedy of the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was therefore elected unopposed.


1904 West Monmouthshire by-election
A by-election was held in the West Monmouthshire constituency in 1904 following the death of the seat's incumbent MP Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Thomas Richards was elected in his place.


1904 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1904 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1904 college football season. In its first season under head coach Anthony Chez, the team compiled a 6–3 record but was outscored by a total of 233 to 99. (The overall point totals were skewed by a 130–0 loss to Michigan.) Paul H. Martin was the team captain.


1904 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 1904 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1904, to elect the governor of West Virginia.


1904 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Western Australia on 28 June 1904 to elect 50 members to the state's Legislative Assembly.


1904 Western Australian state election
The election resulted in a hung parliament. The Labour Party, led by Robert Hastie, won 22 seats, while the governing Ministerialists won 18 seats, and independents won 12 seats. Walter James, who had been premier since July 1902, initially continued on in the role after the election. The Labour Party elected a new leader, Henry Daglish, on 8 July. Daglish successfully moved a motion of no confidence on 2 August, and after James's resignation became premier on 10 August. He was Western Australia's first premier from the Labour Party.


1904 Western Conference football season
The 1904 Western Conference football season was the ninth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1904 college football season.


1904 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
PPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per game


1904 Western Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games
No Western Conference schools participated in any bowl games during the 1904 season.


1904 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Western players
Eleven players were chosen as first-team players on at least four of the 1904 All-Western college football teams named by the following eight selectors: Collier's Weekly (COL), Chicago Record-Herald (CRH), Chicago Tribune (CT), Detroit Free Press (DFP), Detroit Tribune (DT), The Minneapolis Journal (MJ), The St. Louis Republic (SLR), and Walter Camp (WC) in Collier's Weekly. (Players unanimously chosen by all eight selectors are listed in bold.)


1904 Western Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
The following three Western Conference players were consensus first-team players on the 1904 College Football All-America Team.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team
The 1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team was an American football team that represented Western University of Pennsylvania (later renamed the University of Pittsburgh) as an independent during the 1904 college football season.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap
The alumni of the Western University of Pennsylvania realized they needed to organize an Athletic Association to reverse the state of athletics at the school. WUP was determined that the 1904 football season would not be a replay of 1903. On December 7th a formal group was established and the elected executive committee members pledged to raise money to place a winning football team on the field. Coach Mosse agreed to coach the team. His vision was to have at the least an athletic dorm and training table for the players.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap
The Association promised to raise two thousand dollars and on December 16th executive committee member Samuel Hunter presented the plan to the Collegiate and Engineering students. He also suggested that the students contribute by adding a five dollar fee to their tuition. The initial money would benefit the football program until it was turning a profit and then the money would benefit all the sports. The student response was positive. The new Chancellor Samuel B. McCormick and the faculty were supportive.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap
Pirate owner, Barney Dreyfuss leased the use of Exposition Park for the home games for a percentage of the gate. While the alumni and students were raising money, Coach Mosse was actively recruiting some college football veterans. When school opened in the fall the following players were enrolled in the University and competing for positions on the team: Henry Boisseau and Leslie Waddill from Missouri State Normal; Omar Mehl from Washburn College; Joe Thompson, Joe Edgar, Jud Schmidt, Arthur McKean and Walter East from Geneva College; Theodore Perry from State College; and Walter Ritchie from Illinois Wesleyan.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Season recap
Coach Mosse and Manager Charles Gans managed to put together a ten-game schedule that only had one road game. The Western University hired Frank Hinkey to assist Coach Mosse in late October. The ex-Yale captain was the line coach for two weeks. The culmination of all this hard work by the Administration, Alumni Assn., students, and head coach Arthur Mosse was winning the unofficial 1904 Football Championship of Western Pennsylvania. In its second season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled a 10–0 record, shut out nine of its opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 406 to 5.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City
On October 1, Grove City College visited Exposition Park to play the 1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team. More than 1500 spectators ventured to the stadium for the opening game of the season. The engineering and collegiate students were in school and attended in force. Edwin McKee of the engineering department led the cheering section. Grove City received the opening kick and moved the ball against the WUP defense for two first downs and then turned the ball over on downs.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City
The WUP offense showed its potential as Jud Schmidt, Joe Thompson and Omar Mehl moved the ball to the thirty-five-yard line. On the next play, Thompson scampered around left end behind the blocking of Mehl and Schmidt for a touchdown. Joe Edgar kicked the goal after and the score was 6-0 in favor of WUP. After an exchange of possessions the WUP offense again had the ball deep in Grove City territory but were unable to score and the first half ended 6–0. In the second half, Grove City had the ball on offense for only three downs.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City
Joe Thompson scored a touchdown from five yards out on the WUP's second possession. Edgar was good again on the point after. The formidable WUP offense advanced the ball to the Grove City ten yard line as time was called with the final score WUP 12- Grove City 0.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Grove City
The WUP lineup for the game against Grove City was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Henry Boisseau (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; and Walter East replaced Henry Boisseau at right end. The game consisted of one twenty-minute half and one fifteen-minute half.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union
The Purple of Mount Union College were the opponents on October 11. The pomp surrounding the student body cheering was more impressive than the game itself. All students were attending classes and had football fever. A large contingent of students led by a brass band marched into the stadium. The medical students mounted a skeleton on a donkey and he was the star of the parade. At halftime, the students serenaded the players with “Hail, Hail, the Gang's all Here”. The WUP offense scored twelve touchdowns. The Mount Union eleven was totally outmanned.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union
Captain Joe Thompson played substitutes for the second half and backfield subs Rosser and Springer each scored two touchdowns. The only negative was that Joe Edgar missed five goal kicks. The WUPs won the game 67–0 to the delight of about two thousand fans. The WUP lineup for the game against Mount Union was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Mount Union
Substitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; Rosser replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback; Charles Springer replaced Omar Mehl at fullback; William Elliott replaced Calvin Marshall at right tackle; and Thomas Crea replaced Theodore Perry at left end. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster
As in previous years, the game on October 15 against Westminster College drew a large crowd of about twenty-five hundred raucous fans to Exposition Park. Similarly to the game four days prior, the WUP offense dominated the game. The WUP offense scored seven unanswered touchdowns. Joe Thompson scored three, Omar Mehl scored two (one on a one hundred yard dash) and Calvin Marshall and Jud Schmidt each scored one. One paragraph in the Pittsburgh Press aptly recapped the action:


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster
The best play of the day occurred about the middle of the second half. Locke had kicked off to Schmidt on the 10-yard line where he was downed without a gain. On the next play, Mehl broke through the left side of the line, and ran 100 yards for a touchdown. The work of the entire W. U. P. team was good, but that of Joe Thompson, "Jud" Schmidt, Mehl and Perry was splendid. Thompson scored three of the touchdowns, and only once did Schmidt fail to gain when given the ball. Ritchie handled the team in good shape.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Westminster
Joe Edgar was successful on only three of seven goal kicks. The final score read 38-0. The WUP lineup for the game against Westminster was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Curt Leidenroth (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Waldy Zieg replaced Curt Leidenroth at left guard for the second half. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva
The trip to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania on 22 October to do battle with the Covenanters of Geneva College was the only road game of the season for the Universities. The Pittsburg Press summed up the action best:


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva
"Although there was little brilliant playing on either side, this resulted from the fact that WUP did not need to exert herself, and Geneva was unable to do so. WUP had by far the superior team work, and showed far greater experience."


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva
The starting lineup for the WUP eleven had three players who were the stars of the strong 1902 and 1903 Geneva teams: Joe Thompson, Joe Edgar and Jud Schmidt. The twelve hundred fans cheered hard for the Covenanters but this WUP contingent was too strong. Joe Thompson and Omar Mehl each scored two touchdowns and Jud Schmidt added another. Joe Edgar was successful on all five goal kicks to make the final score 30-0.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, at Geneva
Since the Genevans were not congenial hosts and treated both the WUP fans and team poorly, the second half was cut short nine minutes by Captain Thompson. The WUP starting lineup for the game against Geneva was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Henry Boisseau (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). The game consisted of one twenty-five minute half and one sixteen-minute half.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna
The weekday game with Susquehanna University drew mostly students. The WUP eleven were too strong offensively and easily scored forty points. The River Hawks made three first downs in the first half. They fooled the WUP defense with a fake punt for a sizable gain, but the WUP defense stiffened and kept their shutout streak intact. Joe Thompsom, Omar Mehl, and Jud Schmidt scored touchdowns. Substitutions were made at halftime and the Chancellor's son James McCormick relieved Schmidt at halfback. His first carry resulted in a fifty-yard touchdown scamper. Late in the game Walter East also scored from midfield to the delight of the fans. The only disappointment of the day was the faculty at the Pennsylvania College for Women refused to allow their ladies to accept the invitation to attend the game. The Pittsburgh Gazette reported:


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna
"The crowd was small, the W.U.P. students forming the large part of it. The 200 girls from the Pennsylvania College for Women did not appear, and there was a disappointed crowd of boys, who wanted to "get a look at them" as one put it. The faculty vetoed their going, and the ladies were real angry. A note was sent by them, stating why they were not at the game, but promised they would accept the invitation for Thanksgiving when W.U.P. will play State."


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna
The WUP lineup for the game against Susquehanna was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Susquehanna
Substitutions made during the game were: Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; Schwartz replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; William Elliott replaced Calvin Marshall at right tackle; Frank Rugh replaced Walter Ritchie at quarterback; Charles Springer replaced Joe Thompson at left halfback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal
In spite of rumors that the Normal lineup might have some players not registered as students, coach Mosse was looking forward to playing the game so he could gauge his team for the upcoming West Virginia and State College tussles. WUP Chancellor McCormick wanted assurance that, in fact, the players were students and formally protested any nonstudent playing. H.W. Harmon, Director of Athletics at California State Normal, assured him that their lineup would be students. The pregame drama was all for naught as the WUP eleven steamrolled the Blaze 40-0 in front of thirty-two hundred noisy spectators.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal
On the first play from scrimmage Smith, the star back of Normal, raced for a twenty-yard gain but broke his wrist while being tackled. The Normal eleven were stunned and the WUP offense proceeded to score four first-half touchdowns and led 23-0 at halftime. The WUPs scored three more touchdowns in the second half and substitutes received plenty of playing time.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal
The WUP lineup for the game against California Normal was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback).


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, California State Normal
Substitutions made during the game were: Curt Leidenroth replaced Arthur McKean at center; Schwartz replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard; William Elliott replaced Leslie Waddill at right tackle; Henry Boisseau replaced Walter East at right end; Charles Springer replaced Joe Thompson at left halfback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of twenty-minute halves.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg
On a rainy November 5th the winless Waynesburg Yellow Jackets played a twenty-minute first half and fifteen minute second half against the second string of the unbeaten WUP juggernaut. Coach Mosse was resting his starters for the West Virginia game. The WUP scrubs were so excited they scored fourteen touchdowns - Charles Springer led the way with four; James McCormick scored three; Walter Ritchie and Henry Boisseau each scored two; and Frank Righter, Ted Perry and Waldy Zeig each scored one. Waynesburg made one first down and defensively could not stop the WUP offensive machine.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg
The one thousand WUP rooters who ventured to Exposition Park were treated to an impressive offensive display. The final score was 83-0. In the second half WUP halfback Charles Springer broke his shoulder and was out for the rest of the season. The WUP lineup for the game against Waynesburg was Thomas Crea (left end), Frank Righter (left tackle), John Sullivan (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Elliott (right tackle), Walter Ritchie (right end), Henry Boisseau (quarterback), Charles Springer (left halfback), James McCormick (right halfback) and Gilbert Miller (fullback).


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Waynesburg
Substitutions during the game were: Schwartz replaced Joe Edgar at right guard; Henry Boisseau replaced Walter Ritchie at right end; Walter Richie replaced Henry Boisseau at quarterback; Ted Perry replaced Charles Springer at left halfback; Charles Springer replaced Gilbert Miller at fullback; and Waldy Zieg replaced Charles Springer at fullback. The game consisted of one twenty-minute half and one fifteen-minute half.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
On November 8th the boisterous students of WUP were led into Exposition Park by a band for the 1904 edition of the “Backyard Brawl”. Close to four thousand fans were in attendance. Coach Mosse inserted his well-rested first string lineup against the visitors from Morgantown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers defense could not stop the WUP offense. In the first five minutes of play, WUP quarterback Frank Rugh was ejected for fighting and replaced by Walter Ritchie. The WUPs were not deterred as Joe Thompson, Omar Mehl and Jud Schmidt all scored more than one touchdown.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
Omar Mehl delighted the crowd with a seventy-three-yard dash to the end zone in the second half. The WUP defense did not allow West Virginia to penetrate their side of the field. Numerous West Virginia fumbles resulted in short touchdown drives for the WUP offense. Joe Edgar was successful on eight of nine goal kicks. The WUP students and fans were more than satisfied. The final score read 53–0.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, West Virginia
The WUP starting lineup for the game with West Virginia was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; Henry Boisseau replaced Ted Perry at left end; and Curt Leidenroth replaced Waldy Zeig at left guard. The game consisted of thirty-minute halves.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany
On November 19, in front of a sparse crowd, the WUP second team played a short (two fifteen-minute halves) game against the Bethany College eleven. The scrubs scored only four touchdowns as Bethany's defense gave them some problems. Gilbert Miller scored two touchdowns. Henry Boisseau and James McCormick each scored one. John Sullivan had an off day and only made one goal kick out of four. The WUP defense had no trouble controlling the Bethany offense and kept them out of the end zone. The final tally was 21-0.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Bethany
Coach Mosse wanted to keep his first team healthy for the battle with State College on Thanksgiving Day, but they did practice some signals during the halftime break to the delight of the fans. The WUP lineup for the game against Bethany was Thomas Crea (left end), Frank Righter (left tackle), John Sullivan (left guard), Curt Leidenroth (center), Schwartz (right guard), William Elliott (right tackle), Edward Trax (right end), Walter Ritchie (quarterback), Henry Boisseau (left halfback), James McCormick (right halfback) and Gilbert Miller (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Walter East replaced Edward Trax at right end; Waldy Zieg replaced John Sullivan at left guard; Calvin Marshall replaced William Elliott at right tackle; and Leslie Waddill replaced Frank Righter at left tackle.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State
All of the football fans in Pittsburgh had Thanksgiving Day circled on their calendar. Could the unbeaten, unscored upon Western University finally beat the 6-3 State College eleven? State College had lost to eastern heavyweights Yale, Penn and Navy. The State College lineup was missing three starters due to injury – running back Carl Forkum, tackle Andy Moscrip and end Charles Campbell. The WUP lineup was healthy and well prepared. The students paraded to the stadium behind a band of forty instruments.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The light drizzle probably kept the crowd from totaling ten thousand but did not dampen the enthusiasm of the fans that braved the weather. The WUP defense held the Lions on their opening drive and forced a punt. The WUP offense led by their strong backfield of Joe Thompson, Jud Schmidt and Omar Mehl marched the ball down the field. Jud Schmidt finally scored from the half yard line. Joe Edgar was successful on the goal kick after and WUP led 6-0. WUP received the ensuing kickoff but the State College defense forced a punt.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State
On first down Irish McIlveen fumbled and Frank Rugh recovered for the WUP on the State College nineteen yard line. On third down, Omar Mehl scored from eleven yards out. Edgar was again successful on the goal kick. After an exchange of possessions, Jud Schmidt broke loose on a sixty-seven-yard scamper deep into State College territory. Three plays later Schmidt punched the pigskin in from the three and WUP led 17-0 at halftime. Mehl scored his second touchdown early in the second half. Coach Mosse made wholesale substitutions to get everybody enough playing time to qualify for a letter.


1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team, Game summaries, Penn State
State College halfback Irish McIlveen scored a touchdown late in the game to make the final score 22-5. The WUP lineup for the game against Penn State was Theodore Perry (left end), Leslie Waddill (left tackle), Waldy Zieg (left guard), Arthur McKean (center), Joe Edgar (right guard), Calvin Marshall (right tackle), Walter East (right end), Frank Rugh (quarterback), Joe Thompson (left halfback), Jud Schmidt (right halfback) and Omar Mehl (fullback). Substitutions during the game were: Henry Boisseau replaced Ted Perry at left end; Curt Leidenroth replaced Arthur McKean at center; Frank Righter replaced Waltert East at right end; Walter Ritchie replaced Frank Rugh at quarterback; and James McCormick replaced Jud Schmidt at right halfback. The game consisted of thirty-five-minute halves.


1904 William & Mary Orange and White football team
The 1903 William & Mary Orange and White football team was an American football team that represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1903 college football season. Led by first-year head coach J. Merrill Blanchard, the Orange and White compiled an overall record of 3–3.


1904 Wilmot by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Wilmot in Tasmania on 26 February 1904. This was triggered by the death of former Premier of Tasmania and federal Free Trade Party MP Sir Edward Braddon on 2 February 1904.


1904 Wilmot by-election
The by-election was won by Free Trade candidate Norman Cameron (a former member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and who had represented Tasmania in the Australian House of Representatives until he was voted out in the 1903 federal election), against John Cheek for the Protectionist Party. Voting was not compulsory in 1904.


1904 Wimbledon Championships
The 1904 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 20 June until 29 June. It was the 28th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1904. The entry for the men's singles rose to 62, beating the 1880 record of 60. All ten courts (rather than Centre Court only) were 'dressed' with a surround of canvas 3 feet (90 cm) high. The balls and equipment were provided by Slazenger.


1904 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Laurence Doherty /  Reginald Doherty defeated  Frank Riseley /  Sydney Smith, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4


1904 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Frank Riseley and Sydney Smith defeated George Caridia and Arthur Gore 6–3, 6–4, 6–3 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champions Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty defeated Riseley and Smith 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.


1904 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Frank Riseley defeated Major Ritchie  6–0, 6–1, 6–2 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Laurence Doherty defeated Riseley 6–1, 7–5, 8–6 in the Challenge Round to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.


1904 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Charlotte Sterry defeated Agnes Morton 6–3, 6–3 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Dorothea Douglass defeated Sterry 6–0, 6–3 in the Challenge Round to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1904 Wimbledon Championships.


1904 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1904 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1904 Western Conference football season.


1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904.


1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Robert M. La Follette defeated Democratic nominee George Wilbur Peck and Social-Democratic nominee William A. Arnold with 50.55% of the vote.


1904 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Bibliography
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1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The 1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 6 and 7 February 1904 at the ice rink Gamle Frogner Stadion in Kristiania, Norway.


1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
There was no defending champion. Petter Sinnerud won all four distances and became World Champion, but after it was found that he had once participated in a professional match in the United States, against the rules of the ISU, he was disqualified. Sigurd Mathisen, who originally came second, was declared World Champion.


1904 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, Rules
One could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances.


1904 World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual event sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.


1904 World Figure Skating Championships
The competition took place from February 23rd to 24th in Berlin, German Empire.


1904 World Series
In 1904, there was no World Series played between the champions of the two major leagues, the Boston Americans (now the Boston Red Sox) of the American League (AL) and the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants) of the National League (NL). Boston had clinched their second consecutive AL championship, while New York won the 1904 NL title by a wide margin of 13 games.


1904 World Series
With still no formal arrangement in place between the two leagues regarding the staging of the World Series, the Giants under owner John T. Brush refused to play against a team from what they considered an inferior league. The resulting criticism from fans and writers caused Brush to reverse course during the offseason and lead the effort to formalize the World Series between the two leagues.


1904 World Series, Background
Due to a business rivalry between the two leagues, especially in New York, and to personal animosity between Giants manager John McGraw and American League president Ban Johnson, the Giants declined to meet the champions of the "junior" (or "minor") league. McGraw said his Giants were already the world champions because they were the champions of the "only real major league".


1904 World Series, Background
During spring training in March 1904, Giants owner John T. Brush said "there will never be a series" between the New York-based teams—his Giants of the National League and the American League's New York Highlanders—in response to a preseason offer from Highlanders co-owner Frank J. Farrell. In July 1904, as reported in Sporting Life, Brush stated that his NL club would not play the AL club "if each wins the pennant in its respective league", in contradiction of a preseason agreement for a championship series between the leagues.


1904 World Series, Background
At that point in the season, the Giants were comfortably on top of the NL standings, and the Highlanders (now the New York Yankees) were just 1+1⁄2 games behind the Boston Americans. The AL race went down to the wire, and the Highlanders temporarily took over first place on October 7 when they defeated Boston. But the Americans won three of their four remaining games to clinch the AL pennant, and finished 1+1⁄2 games ahead of the Highlanders (who lost three of their final four games) in the final standings of October 10. The Giants, who had won the NL by a wide margin (13 games), stuck to and broadened their plan, refusing to play any AL club, either the champion Boston team or the crosstown New York team, in the proposed "exhibition" series (as they considered it).


1904 World Series, Summary, Boston Americans
Boston had defeated National League champion Pittsburgh in the 1903 World Series, a contest arranged by the two champion clubs, not by the leagues themselves.


1904 World Series, Summary, New York Giants
The Giants maintained that the rules for the World Series were haphazardly defined. In the 1903 series, as well as postseason series between the National League and the American Association in the 1880s, the rules for a given season's "World's Championship Series" had been whatever the two participating clubs had agreed upon. The World Series was not a compulsory event and was not governed by an authoritative body, thus the Giants were free to refuse to participate in such an event.


1904 World Series, Summary, New York Giants
Stung by criticism from fans and writers, Brush drafted rules that both leagues adopted in mid-February 1905. The rules compelled the two winning clubs to participate and governed the annual determination of sites, dates, ticket prices and division of receipts. These new rules essentially made the World Series the premier annual Major League Baseball event.


1904 World Series, Aftermath
Boston slumped in 1905, while New York repeated its NL championship and won the 1905 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics. The two teams eventually met in the 1912 World Series with the Red Sox winning in eight games (Game 2 was a tie). The Series has been played every year since except 1994, when a 232-day players' strike ended the season in mid-August.


1904 World Wrestling Championships
The first World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship was organized on May 23rd 1904 in Vienna, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary, just eight years after the first modern Olympics and eight years before the foundation of the International Wrestling Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. 26 wrestlers from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary participated in the event.


1904 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1904 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1904 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach William McMurray, the team compiled a 4–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 97 to 35. J. Gillespie was the team captain.


1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election
The 1904 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1904. Shortly after he began his second term in 1903, Governor DeForest Richards died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the Governorship and triggering a special election in 1904 to fill the balance of Richards's term. Chatterton ran for re-election, but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by Bryant B. Brooks. Former Congressman John E. Osborne, the former Territorial Governor, was nominated by the Democratic Party. Aided by President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide victory over Democrat Alton B. Parker in the presidential election, Brooks overwhelmingly defeated Osborne.


1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election, Party conventions
As the Republican convention began on May 18, 1904, former State Representative Bryant B. Brooks was seen as having a slight edge over acting Governor Fenimore Chatterton, with the leading rumor that the Laramie County delegation held the balance of power and favored Brooks over Chatterton. Ultimately, the contest between Brooks and Chatterton was not close, with Brooks defeating the incumbent Governor on the first ballot with 83 votes to Chatterton's 41.


1904 Wyoming gubernatorial special election, Party conventions
Meanwhile, as the Democratic convention began on September 7, 1904, several candidates were seen as likely nominees: former Congressman and Territorial Governor John E. Osborne; former State Senator William H. Holliday, the 1894 Democratic nominee for Governor; Robert H. Homer, a former territorial legislator; and W. Dean Hays, with Osborne seen as the frontrunner. After several days of indecision, Osborne—who had been reluctant to run—allowed himself to be nominated and he was approved by acclamation.


1904 Wyoming state elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Two special elections were held: one for Governor and one for State Treasurer. In the gubernatorial election, acting Governor Fenimore Chatterton ran for re-election but was defeated for renomination at the Republican convention by Bryant B. Brooks, who won the subsequent special election over Democrat John E. Osborne. In the special election for State Treasurer, Republican William C. Irvine, who was appointed to the office by Governor Chatterton, successfully won re-election.


1904 Wyoming state elections, Governor
On April 28 1903, Republican Governor DeForest Richards died in office, elevating Secretary of State Fenimore Chatterton to the governorship. Chatterton sought re-election in the special election that followed, but lost renomination to Bryant B. Brooks. In the subsequent general election, Brooks defeated Democratic nominee John E. Osborne by a wide margin.


1904 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
Less than a year into his four-year term as State Treasurer, Henry G. Hay resigned from office in September 1903 to accept a position with the United States Steel Corporation. A special Republican convention was convened to name Hay's replacement, and the convention settled on William C. Irvine, whose name it recommended to Governor Fenimore Chatterton to appoint as Hay's successor. Chatterton, though not obligated to follow the convention's recommendation, did so, and Irvine served until the 1904 special election.


1904 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
In 1904, Irvine ran for re-election. He was renominated at the Republican convention, and faced former State Representative Horace C. Alger, the 1898 Democratic nominee for Governor. He overwhelmingly defeated Alger, winning the right to finish the final two years of Hay's term as Treasurer.


1904 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10–1 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Army.


1904 Yale Bulldogs football team
Four Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections
The United States Senate elections of 1904 and 1905 were elections that coincided with President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide election to a full term. Party share of seats remained roughly the same, when including vacancies and appointments, and the Republicans retained a significant majority over the Democrats.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections
As these elections were prior to ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections
This was the last election cycle until 1996 which featured a presidential candidate who won re-election without securing coattails in the Senate in either of his presidential runs.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Special elections
In these elections, the winners were seated during 1904 or in 1905 before March 4; ordered by election date.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Special elections
In this election, the winner was seated March 4, 1905.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 58th Congress, Early elections
In these elections, the winners were seated March 4, 1907 in the 60th Congress; ordered by election date.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Races leading to the 59th Congress
In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1905; ordered by state.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 59th Congress
In these elections, the winners were elected in 1905 after March 4; sorted by election date.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York
The 1905 election in New York was held on January 17, 1905, by the New York State Legislature. Republican Chauncey M. Depew had been elected to this seat in 1899, and his term would expire on March 3, 1905. At the State election in November 1904, large Republican majorities were elected for a two-year term (1905-1906) in the State Senate, and for the session of 1905 to the Assembly. The 128th State Legislature met from January 3, 1905, on at Albany, New York.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York
Late in 1904, Ex-Governor Frank S. Black tried to be nominated to succeed Depew. Black was supported by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., but after intense fighting behind the scenes, Odell finally dropped Black and accepted Depew's re-election which had been supported by his fellow Senator Thomas C. Platt and Speaker S. Frederick Nixon. The Republican caucus met on January 16. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew unanimously.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York
The Democratic caucus met also on January 16. They nominated again Smith M. Weed who had been the candidate of the Democratic minority in the U.S. Senate election of 1887.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York
Chauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, New York
Note: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
The election in Pennsylvania was held on January 17, 1905. Incumbent Philander C. Knox was elected by the Pennsylvania State Assembly to his first full term in the United States Senate.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
Republican Matthew Quay was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate in the previous election in January 1901. He served until his death on May 28, 1904. In June 1904, Republican Philander C. Knox was appointed to serve out the remainder of Quay's term, ending on March 4, 1905, when he began a term in his own right.


1904 and 1905 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate, convened on January 17, 1905, to elect a Senator to serve the term beginning on March 4, 1905. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:


1904 college baseball season
The 1904 college baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States began in the spring of 1904. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1904 college baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1904 season.


1904 college football season
The 1904 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan, Minnesota, and Penn as having been selected national champions.


1904 college football season
1904 was a big year for the South. It was the first year for: Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt, Mike Donahue at Auburn, and John Heisman at Georgia Tech.


1904 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in Afghanistan.


1904 in Afghanistan
Internal peace is not disturbed during the year, but there are, as usual, frequent rumours of quarrels in the amir's family and of reconciliations. Early in the year it is reported that the amir has removed his half-brother, Mohammad Omar, from the governorship of Kabul, and placed him and his mother, Bibi Halima, under close surveillance. Later on it is stated that the mullahs have brought about a reconciliation, and that Mohammad Omar has been placed in command of the troops in Kabul.


1904 in Afghanistan
There is some quarrelling between Russian and Afghan soldiers owing to the former destroying some guard-houses erected along the border of Turkestan, but there is no actual outbreak, and the amir at once sends officials of position to inquire into the matter. Owing to the generally oppressive action of the Russians some 4,000 of the Turkoman and Jamshid tribes migrate to Herat, where the amir grants them the Zulfikar Pass territory as their place of residence. Several of the leading followers of Ayub Khan return to Afghanistan and others petition the amir to be allowed to do so.


1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904
The amir injures his hand whilst snipe shooting, and the viceroy at his request sends his own doctor to Kabul to treat him. The treatment is entirely successful, and the amir's pleasure at this is possibly helpful in paving the way for the despatch of the special mission under Louis Dane, the Indian foreign secretary, which leaves Peshawar on November 26 and reaches Kabul on December 12. Its work is reported to be progressing very satisfactorily.


1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904
The nature of this work is not made public, but it is not difficult to conjecture what must be the most important points in the discussion between the amir and Mr. Dane. In the first place, Russia, despite her Far Eastern difficulties and disasters, has by no means lost sight of Afghanistan.


1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904
Both in Turkestan and the north and towards Herat in the south the Russian railway system is fast being completed to within striking distance of the frontier; the question of direct commercial relations between Russian and Afghan officials on the frontier appears to be still open, and Russia can easily create local trouble whenever it suits her to do so.


1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904
No doubt the amir likes to know what help Britain would give him in a case of "unprovoked aggression," and, on the other hand, the Indian government likes to know how far the amir can defend himself, what number of troops he can put into the field, and what is their state of efficiency. The relations of the amir and of the Indian government with the tribes on the North-West Frontier also require further adjustment.


1904 in Afghanistan, Early summer 1904
A formal settlement was arrived at when what is known as the Durand Boundary was agreed on, and the present amir at first seemed anxious that the work of demarcating this boundary should be completed, but latterly he appears to have changed his mind, and the work has been suspended. Lastly, it is thought that an endeavour might be made to secure greater facilities for trade between Afghanistan and India. Whilst the foreign secretary is engaged in important work with the amir at Kabul the amir's eldest son, Inayatullah Khan, is paying a visit to the viceroy at Calcutta. As he is only a lad of sixteen his visit is only regarded as a social one, but one which may bear good fruit later if he comes to the throne.


1904 in Argentine football
1904 in Argentine football saw Belgrano A.C. winning the Argentine championship ending a run of four consecutive titles for Alumni. Estudiantes de Buenos Aires was promoted to Primera by the Association after the good campaigns made in lower divisions and the contribution made by the club to the practice of football.


1904 in Argentine football
Flores did not register to play the tournament after a poor performance in the last season.


1904 in Argentine football, Primera División
The 1904 championship had a 6 team, league format, with each team playing the other twice.


1904 in Argentine football, International friendlies
English team Southampton toured on Argentina that year, playing several friendly matches v. clubs and combined teams. It was the first time a professional British team visited Argentina.


1904 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in Australia.