1904 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1904.


1904 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1904 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1904 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1904 in Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Kingdom of Belgium.


1904 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1904 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 3rd season of competitive football in the country.


1904 in British music
This is a summary of 1904 in music in the United Kingdom.


1904 in Canada, Historical documents
Great Toronto Fire and its aftermath, in eyewitness accounts and critical postmortem


1904 in Canada, Historical documents
Anaconda, B.C. forest fire starts in "dry brush several feet thick" made of fallen trees amid much scrubby pine and fir killed by smelter smoke


1904 in Canada, Historical documents
Dubious story about people smuggling prompts editorial on journalistic accuracy


1904 in Canada, Historical documents
Manitoba Free Press special Christmas issue contains goose quill pen


1904 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1904
The value of a Try (touchdown) was increased to five points and Goals from a Try was reduced to one point in the ORFU. The QRFU adopted a rule by Tom (King) Clancy of Ottawa that a team must make five yards on its third scrimmage to keep possession of the ball.


1904 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


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


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


1904 in France, Arts and literature
The unofficial art mouvement of Fauvism (Fauves is the French word for "wild beasts"). Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was the leader of the small group, with other major artists including André Derain (1880–1954) and maurice de Vlaminick (1876–1958). The mouvement was never made official with documents signed by members of a list of criteria in order for work to be considered Fauvism, but it was simply a small group of mainly French painters who used brilliant colour and unexpected brushstrokes, similar to the German Expressionism mouvement. Matisse created the Fauve style after experimenting with post-impressionistic painters, such as Gauguin, Cézanne and Van Gogh, as well as the Neo-impressionism of Cross, Signac and Seurat. All these painters inspired Matisse to reject 3D uses of spaces and use colour and mouvement to create 2D planes of space.


1904 in India, Events
When the Raliegh Bill became an act, it was called Indian Universities, 1904 (Aswathi)


1904 in Italy, Events
The Giolittian Era. During his second and third tenure as Prime Minister (1903–1905 and 1906–1909), Giovanni Giolitti courts the left and labour unions with social legislation, including subsidies for low-income housing, preferential government contracts for worker cooperatives, and old age and disability pensions. Economic expansion was secured by monetary stability, moderate protectionism and government support of production. Foreign trade doubled between 1900 and 1910, wages rose, and the general standard of living went up. Nevertheless, the period was also marked by a sharp increase in the frequency and duration of industrial action, with major labour strikes.


1904 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in New Zealand.


1904 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government
The 15th New Zealand Parliament continued. In government was the Liberal Party.


1904 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1904 in Norwegian music.


1904 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in South Africa.


1904 in Swedish football
The 1904 season in Swedish football, starting January 1904 and ending December 1904:


1904 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.


1904 in architecture
The year 1904 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1904 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1904 throughout the world.


1904 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1904  throughout the world.


1904 in baseball, Champions
World Series:  New York (NL) declined challenge by Boston (AL)


1904 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 1904  throughout the world.


1904 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1904.


1904 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904.


1904 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1904 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


1904 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1904.


1904 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1904.


1904 in paleontology, Synapsids, Eutherians, Cetaceans
A protocetid. Replacement name for Mesocetus Fraas, 1904 (non van Beneden, 1880).


1904 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


1904 in poetry, Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1904 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1904.


1904 in science
The year 1904 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.


1904 in science fiction
The year 1904 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.


1904 in science fiction, Awards
The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time.


1904 in sports
1904 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.


1904 in the Congo Free State
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Congo Free State.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society
The 1904 petition to the Chemical Society was a petition written by 19 female chemists setting out the reasons why they should be afforded the status of Fellow of the Chemical Society. The petition is of importance as it eventually led to the admission of women as Fellows of the Society (one of the Societies that amalgamated to become the Royal Society of Chemistry), as well as identifying prominent female chemists working in Britain at this time.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Context
The Chemical Society was founded in 1841, but several attempts to allow the admission of women as fellows were unsuccessful. Attempts at change included a legal challenge based on the ambiguous language of the Society’s Charter in 1880, which was defeated because the issue of admitting women as fellows "was not expedient at the present time", followed by an attempt in 1892, defeated by a Council vote of 8 to 7. However, after the election of Marie Curie as a Foreign Fellow of the Society in 1904, 19 women signed a petition for admission of women as Fellows. The petition was organised by three of its signatories: Ida Smedley, Ida Freund, and Martha Whiteley.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Petition contents
The petition was addressed to the President and Council of the Chemical Society. It highlighted that in the previous thirty years that there were "about 150 women" who had appeared as authors on some 300 papers published by the Society. It listed the number of papers in the Journal of the Chemical Society in the periods 1873 - 1882 (20 papers), 1883 - 1892 (33 papers), 1893 - 1902 (142 papers), and 1903 to August 1904 (50 papers). They continue that as the Society deemed it fit to publish the work completed by female chemists, that they should help support this work by enabling "free access to chemical literature and by the right to attend the meetings of the Society".


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Signatories
The network that allowed these women to co-sponsor the petition has been examined. Smedley, Freund, and Whiteley led the petition. Smedley attended the King Edward VI High School as did Thomas and Hartle. Freund was a demonstrator and a lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge between 1887 and 1912, as were Elizabeth Eleanor Field, Dorothy Marshall, and Mildred Gostling. Thomas, Field, Whiteley, and Gostling spent time at Royal Holloway College, from where there were two additional petitioners: Margaret Seward and Sibyl Widdows.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Signatories
Clare de Brereton Evans and Millicent Taylor attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham and Taylor had connections with the University of Bristol, where Emily Fortey and Katherine Williams studied. Lucy Boole studied at the London School of Medicine for Women and Katherine Burke studied at University College London under the supervision of William Ramsay - both of these women knew de Brereton Evans. Grace Toynbee studied at the University of Birmingham, and was possibly connected with Hartle. Two petitioners Edith Humphrey and Alice Smith have unknown connections to the remainder, but it is proposed that they were connected by male chemists keen to promote their cause, such William Ramsay.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Outcome
After the petition was received, William Tilden, the President of the Chemical Society in 1905, led agreement from Council that the Petition should be acted upon and that the Society's byelaws should be modified to give qualified women all the privileges of fellows, except for the power to hold office or vote at meetings. However, when this was put to a vote, only 45 fellows showed up, and the motion was defeated.


1904 petition to the Chemical Society, Outcome
The subsequent discussions led to an eventual compromise in 1908 that women be admissible as "Subscribers" which would allow attendance at ordinary meetings, the use of the library, and the receipt of Society publications. Only 11 women joined as "Subscriber" in the period 1908 - 1919, when the category was abolished. After World War I, at an extraordinary general meeting on 8 May 1919, the Society under its then President James Dobbie resolved that women should be admitted on the same terms as men, and the corresponding byelaw was passed in 1920. The first woman fellow admitted was Ida Smedley (Mrs Maclean).


1904–05 Aberdeen F.C. season
Aberdeen F.C. competed in the Scottish Second Division and Scottish Cup in season 1904–05.


1904–05 Aberdeen F.C. season, Overview
Season 1904–05 was Aberdeen's second season and their first in Scottish League football. They failed to gain election to the First Division in 1904, but successfully applied to join the Second Division. The team abandoned their white jerseys for a new black and gold strip this season. The Pittodrie attendance record was broken in January when 16,000 spectators watched as Glasgow club Queen's Park visited Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup. In the league, Aberdeen finished seventh out of twelve clubs. In the cup, they won through to round three after wins over Queen's Park and Bathgate, but lost to Third Lanark at Cathkin Park. Tom Ruddiman finished as the club's top scorer with ten goals from 15 appearances.


1904–05 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Arizona during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Orin A. Kates, coaching his first season with the Wildcats.


1904–05 Army Cadets men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Army Cadets men's basketball team represented United States Military Academy during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The team captain was Harold Hetrick.


1904–05 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season was the 2nd season of play for the program.


1904–05 Army Cadets men's ice hockey season, Season
In Army's second season the team played its first intercollegiate game, albeit against a very short-lived team.


1904–05 Aston Villa F.C. season
The 1904–05 Football League season was Aston Villa's 17th season in the  First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.


1904–05 Aston Villa F.C. season
During the season Howard Spencer and  Joe Bache  shared the captaincy of the club.


1904–05 Aston Villa F.C. season
Events surrounding the February 1905 match away to Small Heath highlighted their Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000, though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000.


1904–05 Aston Villa F.C. season
Aston Villa won the FA Cup competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2–0 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty,  great-great grandfather of footballer Jack Grealish, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.


1904–05 Belgian First Division, Overview
This season saw the two Groups merged back into one National Division: this was also the last season before promotion and relegation was introduced with the creation of the "Promotion" Division. It was contested by 11 teams, and Union Saint-Gilloise won the championship.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was Blackpool F.C. 's eighth season (fifth consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fifteenth.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season
New signings included Edgar Chadwick, from Liverpool, Bob Crewdson, who would go on to make over 200 league appearances for the club, and Hugh Morgan, from Accrington Stanley. Teddy Duckworth, after a season with West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers, returned to the club. Out went Geordie Anderson, who retired, John Rooke and Fred Pentland.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis
The campaign began with a goalless draw at home to Leicester Fosse on 3 September. It wasn't until their fifth game that Blackpool recorded their first victory. It came at Lancashire neighbours Burnley — Alfie Kearns scoring the only goal of the game.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis
Their next victory did not come until 3 December, just over two months later, 4–1 at home to Glossop. They won their next fixture, at home to Bradford City, before managing only one point from their three festive games. A New Year's Eve defeat left them with only thirteen points from a possible 34.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis
After an FA Cup First Round exit to Bristol City, 1905 started with a bang: 6–0 and 2–0 home wins over Barnsley and Burnley.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Season synopsis
Three victories in five games lifted them briefly, but then six defeats in their final nine games saw them finish fourth-bottom, albeit twenty points clear of bottom club Doncaster Rovers, who failed in their attempt to be reelected.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Player statistics, Appearances, League
No appearances: William Anderton, Charles Bennett, Teddy Duckworth and Alfred Wood.


1904–05 Blackpool F.C. season, Transfers, Out
The following players left after the final game of the previous season:


1904–05 Bradford City A.F.C. season
The 1904–05 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the second in the club's history.


1904–05 Bradford City A.F.C. season
Reserve manager Peter O'Rourke took over for the last few games of the season, leading them to 5 wins and a draw in the last six games of the season, and helping them to avoid possible re-election. He became permanent manager shortly afterwards. The club finished 8th in Division Two, and reached the 1st round of the FA Cup.


1904–05 Brentford F.C. season
During the 1904–05 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. In its first season at Griffin Park, the club finished in 14th place.


1904–05 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
It was a summer of fundraising for the Brentford board during the 1904 off-season, with the club needing to raise money for the work being undertaken at its new Griffin Park ground. £600 was raised (equivalent to £65,100 in 2021) to pay summer wages for the squad and manager Dick Molyneux was once again able to sign new players soon after the end of the 1903–04 season, with goalkeeper Walter Whittaker, half back Jimmy Tomlinson and forwards John Boag, Fred Hobson, Frank Oliver, Alex Walker and Joe Warrington being signings of note.


1904–05 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
Molyneux's biggest transfer coup was that of forward Tommy Shanks, who returned to Brentford after 18 months away and off the back of a season in which he had scored 25 goals in Woolwich Arsenal's Football League Second Division triumph. The summer wages allowed full backs Jock Watson, Tommy Davidson and half backs James Bellingham, Jimmy Jay and George Parsonage to be retained, which on paper made the Bees' 1904–05 Southern League First Division squad arguably the club's strongest yet.


1904–05 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
Though the season proved to be a slight improvement on the previous one, with two more points won, but finishing one place lower in 14th, Brentford's first season at Griffin Park was a disappointment. Though he finished the season as top scorer and became Brentford's second international player, forward Tommy Shanks could not recreate his prolific form of the previous season and scored just seven goals. The Bees reached the intermediate round of the FA Cup for the third successive season, but could not find a way past fellow First Division club Reading.


1904–05 Brentford F.C. season, Playing squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1904–05 British Home Championship
The 1904–05 British Home Championship was an international football tournament between the British Home Nations. It took place in the second half of the 1904–05 football season and saw England win the championship for the third time in a row with two victories and a draw. Wales, despite losing to England, came in second as part of a strong run which would result in victory at the 1907 British Home Championship. Scotland and Ireland came joint third with two points a piece.


1904–05 British Home Championship
England and Ireland kicked off the competition in February 1905 with a hard fought 1–1 draw in Middlesbrough. In early March, Wales and Scotland began their tournaments with Wales easily beating the Scots in Wrexham and taking the top of the table. Scotland responded to the defeat with a 4–0 rout of the Irish in their second game, and England then moved to the head of the table with a 3–1 victory over the Welsh at home. England then beat Scotland in London to make them winners unless Wales could win against Ireland in Belfast. In the culminating match the Welsh played hard and scored twice, but it was not enough to secure victory and the championship went to England.


1904–05 Brown men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Brown men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.


1904–05 Brown men's ice hockey season, Season
The downward spiral for Brown's ice hockey team continued as they again won no games against college teams. This season brought a new low as the Brunos lost every game they played and established two program worsts; the 15 goals Brown surrendered to Harvard are the most goals against in the history of the program and the 14-goal deficit is the worst goal differential the program has ever seen (as of 2019).


1904–05 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Bucknell Bison men's basketball team represented Bucknell University during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The Bisons team captain of the 1904–05 season was George Cockill.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was Burslem Port Vale's seventh consecutive season (11th overall) of football in the English Football League. A poor season, the club had to apply (successfully) for re-election. The club had to continue their policy of selling their best players to survive.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season
An extremely poor defence saw some embarrassing scorelines away from home, and the lack of a consistent goalscorer was also a cause for concern.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
A rather quiet pre-season saw no signings of note, however past player, outside-right Dick Evans re-signed from Southampton in September. This return was ended in his second game of the season – a Staffordshire Senior Cup defeat to Wolves – when he suffered a career-ending injury.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
The first game of the season saw 5,000 turn up to witness a 2–2 draw with Manchester United, this positive start soon ended as despite going their first four games unbeaten, the club had to wait until their ninth match for their first victory. On 5 November 1904, the club's record 29 away games without a win streak came to an end with a 3–0 victory at Grimsby Town. The next match saw Liverpool win 2–1 thanks to a goal that never actually crossed the line – the referee had to leave the pitch under escort.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
Following the sale of key players in December, the form of the "Valeites" took a hit as from 4 December to the end of February they recorded just two victories – both against West Bromwich Albion. This run included heavy defeats at Manchester United and Burnley. In February the club's revival was helped by new signing Robert Carter, as six of the last seven home games were wins. Despite this they still suffered on their travels, taking an 8–1 hammering at Anfield.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
The club finished in sixteenth place, though their 27 points saw them just one point off Blackpool, and six points off seventh place. Burton United and Doncaster Rovers both finished well below Vale, and at the end of the season both Vale and Burton were re-elected.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
Dick Allman was top scorer with a pitiful eight goals, though scoring proved to be a team effort to give Vale a reasonable total of 47 league goals. However, in defensive terms the season was awful, their 72 conceded would always guarantee a battle against dropping into the lottery of the re-election zones.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Second Division
Allman left for Reading at the season's end. Harry Croxton was an ever-present, and other regulars included goalkeeper Harry Cotton, and outfielders Sam Whittingham, Joseph Holyhead, George Price, and Adrian Capes. Manager Sam Gleaves stepped down at the end of the season, and was given the position of director, his replacement was former player Tommy Clare.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances
The financial outlook was as grim as ever, as directors were forced to sell Ernest Mullineux and Tom Simpson to Bury for £600 and £200 respectively. This gave the club a season profit of £140, and reduced club debt to just £33, however gate receipts had fallen by £150.


1904–05 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions
The club came up against tough competition in both county cup competitions, losing 1–0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the First Round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup. They found rather more success in the Birmingham Senior Cup, where Vale defeated rivals Stoke with a Tom Simpson hat-trick at home, following a goalless draw at the Victoria Ground. This achievement was less significant due to a slight from Stoke, who only sent out their reserve side. Following this success the club lost in the semi-final to Second Division rivals West Bromwich Albion. The club yet again failed to qualify for the FA Cup, losing narrowly to Barnsley in the qualification stages.


1904–05 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Butler University during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Edgar Wingard, coaching in his first season with the Bulldogs.


1904–05 Celtic F.C. season
During the 1904–05 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in the Scottish First Division.


1904–05 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team
The 1904–05 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team represented the Christian Brothers College High School (then known as college) during the 1904–05 college soccer season. The team, along with Haverford were declared co-champions by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football League. Additionally, the program was selected to participate as the local representative in the soccer tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics in November. In the Olympics, the program earned the silver medal after losing to Canadian club, Galt, and defeating American club, St. Rose Parish. To date, they are the only college/high school soccer program to have ever earned an Olympic medal.


1904–05 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team, Squad
The following players were known to have played for the university during the season.


1904–05 Christian Brothers Cadets men's soccer team, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1904–05 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was Amos Foster, coaching his first season with the Bearcats.


1904–05 Colgate men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Colgate Raiders men's basketball team represented Colgate University during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ellery Huntington Sr. coaching the Raiders in his fifth season. The team had finished with an overall record of 10–7.


1904–05 Columbia Lions men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Columbia Lions men's basketball team represented Columbia University in intercollegiate basketball during the 1904–05 season. The team finished the season with a 19–1 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Two players were named to the first-ever college basketball All-American team at the end of the season: Harry Fisher and Marcus Hurley.


1904–05 Columbia men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Columbia men's ice hockey season was the 9th season of play for the program.


1904–05 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season
The team did not have a head coach but E. H. Updike served as team manager.


1904–05 Columbia men's ice hockey season, Season
Note: Columbia University adopted the Lion as its mascot in 1910.


1904–05 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team represented Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, in the 1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season. The Aggies completed the season with a 3–3 overall record. The Aggies were members of the Athletic League of New England State Colleges and ended the season with a 0–1 record with a loss to Massachusetts.


1904–05 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Drexel Blue and Gold men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry during the 1904–05 men's basketball season. The Blue and Gold, who played without a head coach, played their home games at Main Building.


1904–05 Dundee F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was the twelfth season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where they would finish in 8th place. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would lose to Heart of Midlothian in the first round.


1904–05 East Stirlingshire F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was East Stirlingshire Football Club's fourth season in the Scottish Football League, being admitted to the Scottish Football League Second Division. The club also competed in the minor Stirlingshire Cup.


1904–05 F.B.C. Juventus season
The 1904–05 season was the 6th season in the existence of Juventus. Juventus won their first league in their history.


1904–05 FA Cup
The 1904–05 FA Cup was the 34th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Aston Villa won the competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2–0 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.


1904–05 FA Cup
Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.


1904–05 FA Cup, Calendar
The format of the FA Cup for the season had two preliminary rounds, six qualifying rounds, an intermediate round, three proper rounds, and the semi finals and final.


1904–05 FA Cup, Intermediate Round
The Intermediate Round featured ten games, played between the ten winners of the Sixth Qualifying Round, and ten teams given byes. Manchester United, Bristol City, West Bromwich Albion, Burnley and Grimsby Town from the Second Division were entered automatically into this round, as were non-league Reading, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers, Plymouth Argyle and Millwall.


1904–05 FA Cup, Intermediate Round
The other Second Division sides had to gain entry to this round through the earlier qualifying rounds. Glossop, Blackpool, Burton United, Gainsborough Trinity, Leicester Fosse and Doncaster Rovers were entered at the Third Qualifying Round stage, with only Blackpool, Leicester and Gainsborough reaching the intermediate round from these. Chesterfield, Barnsley, Bradford City, Lincoln City and Burslem Port Vale were all entered at the Sixth Qualifying Round stage, with only the latter losing in that round.


1904–05 FA Cup, First round proper
The First Round Proper contained sixteen ties between 32 teams. The 18 First Division sides were given a bye to this round, as were Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers from the Second Division, and non-league Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur. They joined the ten teams who won in the intermediate round.


1904–05 FA Cup, First round proper
The matches were played on Saturday, 4 February 1905. Seven matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture. Two of these went to a second replay the following week.


1904–05 FA Cup, Second round proper
The eight second-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 18 February 1905. There were two replays, played in the following midweek fixture.


1904–05 FA Cup, Third round proper
The four quarter final matches were scheduled for Saturday, 4 March 1905. The Preston North End – The Wednesday game was drawn, and replayed on 9 March.


1904–05 FA Cup, Semi finals
The semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 25 March 1905. Aston Villa's match with Everton was drawn and thus replayed four days later. Aston Villa won and went on to meet Newcastle United in the final.


1904–05 FA Cup, Final
The Final was contested by Aston Villa and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. Aston Villa won 2–0, with Harry Hampton scoring both goals.


1904–05 FAHL season
The 1904–05 Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) season lasted from December 31, 1904, until March 3. Teams played an eight-game schedule.


1904–05 FAHL season, League business
The Ottawa Hockey Club, who officially joined the FAHL prior to the end of the last season, played its first full season in the league. Montreal Le National left the league and joined the rival Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL). Ottawa had negotiated with the CAHL to return, along with the Wanderers joining, but this was turned down. The Ottawa Capitals also left the FAHL.


1904–05 FAHL season, Pre-season
The Wanderers played an exhibition series in New York City in December 1904. One game, versus the New York City Athletic Club, was noted for its rough play by the Wanderers.


1904–05 FAHL season, Regular season
The newly transferred Ottawa Hockey Club won the league championship – and retained the Stanley Cup – with a record of seven wins and one loss.


1904–05 FAHL season, Regular season, Highlights
Ottawa's Frank McGee scored five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.


1904–05 FAHL season, Regular season, Results
† Ottawa HC lock down League Championship, retain Stanley Cup.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
The Klondike Hockey Club, in a letter dated August 24, 1904, from team president Weldy Young, a former Ottawa player, issued a challenge to the Ottawa Hockey Club. The Dawson City team had won no championships and was not a member of any recognized senior league, yet Stanley Cup trustees P.D. Ross and JohnSweetland approved the challenge. Author Paul Kitchen has speculated that the series was approved because Young knew both Ross and federal government minister Clifford Sifton.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). The team was no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeated them in the first game, 9–2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes, and a 23–2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player has Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for Brandon Wheat City in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
A.   Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney (in The Globe article)B.   Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
The score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtedly the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. There is a Stanley Cup legend that after the banquet, the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal nearby and retrieved the next day. However, Bill Westwick, Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick, and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage Thistles
In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Ottawas. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead Ottawa to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles.


1904–05 FAHL season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage Thistles
There was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2–1 at halftime and 3–2 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4–3 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa.


1904–05 FC Barcelona season
The 1904–05 season was the 6th soccer season for FC Barcelona.


1904–05 FC Barcelona season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1904–05 FC Basel season
The FC Basel 1904–05 season was their twelfth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the second consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Overview
Eugen Strauss was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. The team played just two pre-season friendlies, one in France against Mulhouse and one in Zürich against Grasshopper Club. The game against Mulhouse was won 8–1 the return match four months later in the Landhof was only drawn. The match against the Grasshoppers ended in a defeat. In the winter break the team travelled to Germany. They played against 1. FC Pforzheim on Christmas day and were defeated 7–3. On boxing day they played a game against Karlsruher FV and managed a draw. At the end of the season the team travelled again to Germany and were defeated 5–1 by Freiburger FC.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Overview
The seventh league championship, Swiss Serie A season 1904–05, was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Weissenbühl Bern and Old Boys Basel. This season was a sportingly very disappointing season for Basel. There were just two victories from eight games, both times against Weissenbühl Bern. The away game was won 9–2 and the return match 3–0. Weissenbühl Bern lost all their eight games and were relegated at the end of the season with a goal tally of five scored and 52 conceded. Basel's other six games all ended in defeats and they landed in second last position in the group table, scoring 18 and conceding 20 goals.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Overview
In the central group Young Boys Bern and the Old Boys Basel ended the season level on points as they did the year before and so a play-off match was arranged (see also foot note below). This time the Young Boys won the play-off with 2–1 and therefore they qualified for the finals. In the finals Grasshopper Club won both their matches and became Swiss champions for the third time in seven years.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Results, Serie A, Central group league table
NB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.


1904–05 FC Basel season, Sources
(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is missing.)


1904–05 Football League
The 1904–05 season was the 17th season of The Football League. Woolwich Arsenal were the first London club to feature in the top flight of English football since its inception in 1888–89.


1904–05 Football League, Final league tables
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at  website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79, with home and away statistics separated.


1904–05 Football League, Final league tables
Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.


1904–05 Football League, Final league tables
During the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893–94, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894–95 season and until the 1920–21 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.


1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship
The 1904-05 French Rugby Union Championship was won by SBUC, who defeated Stade Français in the final.


1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship
The 1904-05 championship was the second consecutive time the two teams had met in the final match, with SBUC victorious on both occasions.


1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship, Final
SBUC:  Jean Guiraud, Pascal Laporte, Maurice Bruneau, Marc Giacardy, Hélier Thil, Campbell Cartwright, André Lacassagne, Max Kurtz (cap), Marcel Laffitte, Jacques Duffourcq, Alphonse Massé, R.Dachicourt, Jauréguiber, Louis Mulot, Herman Gross-Droz


1904–05 French Rugby Union Championship, Final
Stade Français: Henri Marescal, Charles Vareilles, Stuart Forsyth, Francis Mouronval, Pierre Mouronval, Lhuerre, Guy de Talencé, Charles Beaurin, Allan Henry Muhr, Camille Galliot, André Vergès, Marcel Communeau, Georges Jérôme, A. Bertjemann, Paul Dedet


1904–05 Galatasaray S.K. season
The 1904–05 season was Galatasaray SK's first. Galatasaray SK did not join the IFL.


1904–05 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program.


1904–05 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season
In December of 1904 Harvard constructed two rinks inside the recently completed Harvard Stadium, allowing for the increasingly popular ice hockey team to be viewed by a large number of spectators. The Crimson played six games at home during the year, utterly dominating their opponents; Harvard outscored the visitors 74–7 including setting an all-time program record (as of 2019) in their first intercollegiate game by eviscerating MIT 25–0. The game saw double hat-tricks from both Callaway and Wilder as well as a goal from MIT's Tylee...on his own net. In the 18–0 drubbing of Springfield, Richard Townsend set a program record with 8 goals in the game, a feat he almost duplicated with a 7-goal game against Brown.


1904–05 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey season, Season
For the third straight year Harvard finished undefeated, claiming another intercollegiate title, and extending their winning streak to 26 games.


1904–05 Haverford Fords men's soccer team
The 1904–05 Haverford Fords men's soccer team represented Haverford College during the 1904–05 IAFL season. It was the Fords fourth season of existence. The Fords competed in the IAFL as well as in the ACCL, and won both the IAFL National Championship, the predecessor to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship as well as The Manheim Prize, for winning the ACCL.


1904–05 Haverford Fords men's soccer team
The Fords became the first team to win an Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association title, which is considered by American soccer historians to be the first formal national championship given to a college soccer program. Haverford finished with six wins, one defeat and three draws.


1904–05 Haverford Fords men's soccer team, Roster
The following players played on Haverford's roster during the 1904–05 season.


1904–05 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
During the 1904–05 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.


1904–05 Hibernian F.C. season
During the 1904–05 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, finished fifth out of 14 clubs in the Scottish First Division.


1904–05 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team represented The College of the Holy Cross during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Fred Powers, coaching the crusaders in his fourth season.


1904–05 IPHL season
The 1904–05 IPHL season was played by teams of the International Professional Hockey League. It marked the first season in the league’s history. It’s also the only season the Calumet-Laurium Miners won the league title.


1904–05 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Zora G. Clevenger, who was in his 1st year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a first-time member of the Western Conference.


1904–05 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 5–12 and a conference record of 1–1.


1904–05 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his sixth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana.


1904–05 Irish League
The Irish League in season 1904–05 comprised 8 teams, and Glentoran won the championship after a play-off with Belfast Celtic ( Championship Playoff: Glentoran-Belfast Celtic 3-1 ).


1904–05 Istanbul Football League
The 1904–05 İstanbul Football League season was the first season of the league. HMS Imogene FC won the league for the first time.


1904–05 KBUs Fodboldturnering, Overview
It was contested by 6 teams, and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub won the championship.


1904–05 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas in its seventh season of collegiate basketball. The head coach was James Naismith, the inventor of the game, who served his 7th year. The Jayhawks finished the season 5–6. Future Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen played for the team.


1904–05 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Kentucky State men's basketball team competed on behalf of the University of Kentucky during the 1904-1905 season. The team finished with a final record of 1-4.


1904–05 MHA season
The 1904–05 Manitoba Hockey Association (MHA) season  was won by the Rat Portage Thistles. After the season the Thistles challenged Ottawa for the Stanley Cup, but lost in a three-game series.


1904–05 MHA season, Regular season, Highlights
Tom Phillips returned to the Thistles after attending McGill University and a year in Toronto. Phillips brought along goaltender Eddie Giroux, with whom he had played with in the 1903–04 season for the Toronto Marlboros.


1904–05 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges
After the season, the Thistles challenged the Ottawa Hockey Club in Ottawa


1904–05 MHA season, Stanley Cup Challenges, Rat Portage vs. Ottawa
In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. The Ottawa star Frank McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the  Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee scored the winning goal in the third game.


1904–05 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.


1904–05 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season
After having to cancel their entire 1903–04 season due to poor weather conditions, MIT returned to the ice in January of 1905. Unfortunately, the weather again forced them to cancel their first game of the season against Brown. When they did finally play a game, they came up against a juggernaut in Harvard and lost one of the most lopsided games in college hockey history (0–25). After that initial embarrassment the team settled down and won their next five games, albeit against non-college opponents.


1904–05 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season
The team did not have a head coach but P. S. Crowell served as team manager.


1904–05 MIT Engineers men's ice hockey season, Season
Note: Massachusetts Institute of Technology athletics were referred to as 'Engineers' or 'Techmen' during the first two decades of the 20th century. By 1920 all sports programs had adopted the Engineer moniker.


1904–05 Madrid FC season
The 1904–05 season was Madrid Football Club's 3rd season in existence. The club played some friendly matches against local clubs. They also played in the Campeonato de Madrid (Madrid Championship) and the Copa del Rey.


1904–05 Madrid FC season
Madrid FC remained unbeaten throughout the season winning both the Campeonato de Madrid and the Copa del Rey for the first time. The only match the club did not win was a 1–1 draw in a friendly against Athletic Club Sucursal de Madrid. Madrid FC defeated Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final securing the first official title in the club's history.


1904–05 Manchester City F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was Manchester City F.C. 's fourteenth season of league football and second consecutive season in the top flight of English football.


1904–05 Manchester United F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was Manchester United's 13th season in the Football League. United finished 3rd in the Second Division. The Reds also competed in the FA Cup, but failed to get past the Intermediate Round stage, losing to Fulham.


1904–05 Manchester United F.C. season, FA Cup
Manchester United entered the 1904–05 FA Cup at the Intermediate Round stage and were drawn at home to Fulham on 14 January 1905. The match finished 2–2, with goals from Tommy Arkesden and Charles Mackie. The replay was played four days later away at Craven Cottage, and ended scoreless. On 23 January, Fulham and United played a second replay at the neutral venue of Villa Park, which Fulham won by a single goal.


1904–05 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team
The 1904–05 team finished with a record 6–3. It was the second year for head coach Wilbur P. Bowen. The team captain was Edward O’Brien and the team manager was Herbert Chapman.


1904–05 Michigan State Normal Normalites men's basketball team, Schedule
1. Media guide shows score of 12-44 and yearbook shows 14-54. 2 . EMU shows score of 22-29 and Adrian shows score of 20-19. 3. EMU doesn't show this game but Adrian does.


1904–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team
The 1904–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The school was known as State Agricultural College at this time. The head coach was Chester Brewer coaching the team in his second season. The team captain was Foley Tutle. They finished the season 5–3.


1904–05 Netherlands Football League Championship
The Netherlands Football League Championship 1904–1905 was contested by eighteen teams participating in two divisions. The western division had been divided during the last two seasons, but was combined again. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern and western football division of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating PW 4-1 and 4–2.


1904–05 Northern Football League
The 1904–05 Northern Football League season was the sixteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.


1904–05 Northern Football League, Clubs
The league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season
The 1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season was the tenth season of rugby league football.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Oldham won their first Division One Championship whilst Warrington won the Challenge Cup.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Holbeck and South Shields dropped out, reducing the competition to 15 teams.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
Birkenhead resigned after 4 games, the results of which were struck out of the table. They lost all four games, conceding 93 points and scoring none.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
On 4 March 1905, a record 11 tries were scored by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) v Brookland Rovers in the Northern Union Challenge Cup. In this same match the record for most points in a match, 53 (11t, 10g) by George West (Hull Kingston Rovers) was recorded.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Season summary
At the end of the season, all division one and division two clubs. except Lancaster, were elected to the new single top division, the NRFU Championship.


1904–05 Northern Rugby Football Union season, Challenge Cup
Warrington  beat Hull Kingston Rovers 6-0 in the final at Leeds before a crowd of 19,638 to win the Cup at their third attempt in a final.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season
The 1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, the club's 20th season of play, lasted from January 7, 1905, until March 11, 1905. Ottawa won the league championship of the Federal Amateur Hockey League and successfully defended its Stanley Cup championship against all challengers.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
After resigning from the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in January 1904, the club made plans to join the FAHL. However, before the season started, the club investigated returning to the CAHL and to helping create a merger of the FAHL with the CAHL. The teams of the CAHL were opposed to both initiatives and the club played the season in the FAHL.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
Two personal tragedies occurred during the off-season. Jim McGee died in a horse-riding accident in May. The McGee family did not wish Frank to continue to play hockey with only one good eye but Frank chose to play the season. Harvey Pulford's wife Annis died giving birth to a son in December 1904.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
In December 1904, the Ottawas signed an agreement to return to Dey's Rink for season and Stanley Cup play. The Ottawas had been unhappy with the Aberdeen Pavilion and the Dey's Rink management agreed to arena improvement.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
Bouse Hutton was ruled ineligible by the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union (CAAU) to play amateur ice hockey. He had played with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club, which was ruled to be a professional team. In addition, he had a severe case of quinsy. Hutton retired from ice hockey, continuing in lacrosse. Dave Finnie took his place.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
Harry Westwick who also had played lacrosse, was deemed eligible by the CAAU to play ice hockey for Ottawa, but was considered a professional by the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). This meant the cancellation of an exhibition between the Toronto Marlboros and Ottawa prior to the season as Ottawa refused to play without Westwick. The Dey's Rink still charged the Marlboros for rental of the rink.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Off-season
Suddy Gilmour did not return for this season, as he went to work lumbering in the Gatineaus.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season
The Club won the league championship with a record of seven wins and one loss. The first game, on January 7 versus the Wanderers, was attended by Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, the Governor-General of Canada. Grey dropped the puck for the first face-off. It was the first display of ice hockey that he attended.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Highlights
Frank McGee scored five goals against the Montagnards on February 4.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Regular season, Scoring
An "own goal", by Garnet McDonald of Cornwall, in the February 24, 1905 game was also recorded for Ottawa. After a shot by Hamby Shore was stopped, McDonald "in a zealous effort to clear, only batted it in."


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
The first interest in a challenge from Dawson City was indicated in a letter from Weldy Young to the Ottawa Citizen, in 1900. The Stanley Cup trustees received a letter from G. T. Kirkson and C. Shannon of Dawson on June 7, 1901, challenging the then-champion Winnipeg Victorias. After P. D. Ross wrote back to Dawson, nothing further was heard from the Dawson club until September 9, 1904, when Ross received a challenge from Young for a Dawson City All-Star team to challenge the Silver Seven. Ross authorized the challenge in December 1904.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
In January 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets travelled 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from the Yukon to Ottawa for a best-of-three Cup challenge series. The Nuggets actually left Dawson City on December 19, 1904, and travelled on a month-long journey by dog sled (Dawson to Whitehorse), ship (Skagway to Vancouver), and train (Whitehorse to Skagway, and Vancouver to Ottawa). They were no match for the Silver Seven. Ottawa defeated them in the first game, 9–2. Numerous Stanley Cup records were then set in game two, including Frank McGee's 14 goals, which included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes, and a 23–2 rout, the largest margin of victory for any challenge game or Stanley Cup Final game to date.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City
Several players playing for Dawson were from the Ottawa area. Jim Johnstone was from Ottawa. Norman Watt was from Aylmer, Quebec. Randy McLennan was from Glengarry County, Ontario and had played in a Stanley Cup challenge for Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario. Another player had Stanley Cup challenge experience: Lorne Hanna, "formerly of the Yukon", had played for Brandon Wheat City in their 1904 challenge of Ottawa.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one
A.   Coleman lists spelling as Lorne Hanna, other spellings include Hannay (Reddick's spelling) and Hanney (in The Globe article)B.   Coleman lists E. Butterworth as referee. However, Boyle is recorded as complaining about Stiles missing off-side calls.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one
The score was 9 to 2 but Ottawa might have increased its proportions had they set to work to run up a score on the men who had travelled 4,000 miles from the far north in quest of the trophy.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game one
During the first twenty minutes of play, the challenging team made a remarkably fine showing against the champions, but after that they gradually faded away and were never seriously in the running, indicating that the chief fault with the team is that they are not in condition to stand the test of a hard battle after their long trip of 23 days from the north. While defeated to-night, it is undoubtably the fact that the team will be a different proportion in the second game on Monday.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game two
The visiting team was outclassed to-night quite as decisively as the score indicates. In fact had it not been for the fact of Forrest's presence in the Dawson goal the score against them might have been a great deal larger. Ottawa simply skated away from them at the whistle, and continued to pile up the goals with a merciless monotonous regularity which was farcical in the extreme.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Dawson City, Game two
After the series, Ottawa held a banquet for Dawson City at the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association (OAAA) clubhouse. There is a Stanley Cup legend that after the banquet, the Stanley Cup was drop kicked into the frozen Rideau Canal nearby and retrieved the next day. However, Bill Westwick, Ottawa Journal sports editor and the son of Silver Seven player Rat Westwick, and NHL commissioner Frank Calder both deny it ever happened.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage
In March 1905, the Rat Portage Thistles issued another challenge to the Senators. McGee did not play in the first game and the Thistles crushed Ottawa, 9–3. However, he returned to lead the Senators to 4–2 and 5–4 victories in games two and three, respectively. McGee returned in game two, with his good forearm wrapped in a cast, and only a light bandage on his broken wrist, to decoy the Thistles. Alf Smith scored three goals in game two on slow ice, which the Thistles claimed was salted to slow down the Thistles.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage
There was hard ice in game three, and the lead exchanged hands several times. The Thistles led 2–1 at halftime and 3–2 midway through the second half. Ottawa took a 4–3 lead, before Tommy Phillips scored his third of the game to tie the score. However, McGee came through with the winning score late in the game to win it for Ottawa. Nearly 11,000 attended the series, and sell-outs left spectators outside of Dey's Arena.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game one
Ottawa played game one without two of its top players: Frank McGee and Billy Gilmour. In the Montreal Gazette report, the Thistles' speed was praised, saying that "once one of the Thistle players had broken away he was hardly in any danger of being caught by an Ottawa forward." Rat Portage scored first but Ottawa scored twice to gain the lead. Si Griffis then scored three consecutive goals to put the Thistles ahead 4–2 at the half. In the second half, the Thistles continued their dominance, scoring four straight before Ottawa replied. Phillips scored his final goal to make it 9–3 for the Thistles. The game was played with two referees and the game was described as the "cleanest game played in Ottawa this season."


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game two
The second game was played on heavy, wet, ice. This was considered a disadvantage to the Thistles, who were unable to play their style of game, having only skates suited to fast ice. Bolstered by the return of McGee and Gilmour, Ottawa played a game of "trickery and rough tactics" that they were known for. Griffis opened the scoring at 16 minutes of the first half. A minute later, Smith responded, tying the score.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game two
Hooper scored for Rat Portage two minutes later to put the Thistles again into the lead, but this was countered by two goals from Ottawa's Smith and Gilmour to put Ottawa ahead 3–2 at the half. In the second half, only Ottawa was able to score, as Ottawa's Smith completed his hat trick at 18:45 to cement the game for Ottawa. McGee did not score, but did his part to intimidate the Thistles with stick work, drawing four penalties. Dey's Rink was jammed, filled with 3,500 spectators, leaving approximately 1,000 outside on Gladstone Avenue.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Stanley Cup challenges, Ottawa vs. Rat Portage, Game three
The third game was played on hard, fast ice unlike game two. McGee came to the fore in scoring, scoring a hat trick, including the game and Cup winner with two minutes to play. In the first half, Phillips of Rat Portage scored twice to put the Thistles ahead 2–1 at the half. Smith of Ottawa opened the scoring in the second, matched by Hooper eight minutes later. McGee and Westwick scored to put Ottawa ahead 4–3 but Phillips tied it at 4 with four minutes to play. McGee won the game with his third goal, converting a pass from Pulford with two and a half minutes to go. The Montreal Gazette report praised the quality of the game and Harvey Pulford in particular.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup champions, Players
† Substitute/on team picture/dressed, but did not play&-Missing from the team picture.


1904–05 Ottawa Hockey Club season, Ottawa Hockey Club 1905 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving
Weldy Young, a former member of the Ottawa team in the 1890s, and the captain of the Dawson City team, engraved his name on the Cup with a pen knife. He had missed playing for Dawson as he was working in the federal election, although he did arrive in Ottawa during the series.


1904–05 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team
The 1904–05 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team represented Penn State University during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The team finished with a final record of 5–4.


1904–05 Plymouth Argyle F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was the second competitive season in the history of Plymouth Argyle Football Club.


1904–05 Primera Fuerza season, Overview
Pachuca won the Mexican national championship for the first time in 1905, if only because their goal average (goal ratio) was better than that of British Club (Mexico City). A Mexican triumph this was not, however, as all of Pachuca's players were British, many of whom had gained experience playing in the English leagues. The champions' line-up included the three brothers "Stan", "Charly" and "Jack" Dawe, as well as outside right "Willie" Rule and wing half-back "Jack" Rabling. Goalkeeper Charles Quickmore was a priest and minister of the Protestant mine churches in Mexico. Orizaba, Mexican champions in 1903, could no longer play in the league as the travels involved would have been too long and would have taken too much time.


1904–05 Primera Fuerza season, League standings, Top goalscorers
Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name.


1904–05 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season was the 6th season of play for the program.


1904–05 Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey season, Season
The Tigers played a program low of six games during the season and were only able to win one game against lowly Brown. The team would not play so few or win so few games until the season after World War I. Princeton played all of its games at the St. Nicholas Rink.


1904–05 Rangers F.C. season
The 1904–05 season is the 31st season of competitive football by Rangers.


1904–05 Rangers F.C. season, Overview
Rangers played a total of 33 competitive matches during the 1904–05 season. The team finished joint top of the league with Celtic, equal on points but with better goal difference. Since the concept of goal difference was not considered both teams played a Championship play-off which Celtic won 1–2.


1904–05 Rangers F.C. season, Overview
The Scottish Cup campaign saw the team reach the final where they played Third Lanark. The final ended in a draw and Rangers lost the replay 1–3 at Hampden Park.


1904–05 Rugby Union County Championship
The 1904–05 Rugby Union County Championship was the 17th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.


1904–05 Rugby Union County Championship
Durham won the competition for the fourth time defeating Middlesex in the final.


1904–05 Scottish Cup
The 1904–05 Scottish Cup was the 32nd season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Third Lanark when they beat Rangers 3-1 in a replay.


1904–05 Scottish Districts season
The 1904–05 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.


1904–05 Scottish Division One
The 1904–05 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic. They and Rangers had finished the league campaign level on 41 points, and a play-off at Hampden Park (doubling up as a fixture in the minor Glasgow Football League) was arranged to decide the championship. An English-based referee was drafted in to officiate at the match due to increasing tensions between the two groups of supporters and controversies in recent matches between the sides. Celtic won 2–1, with Jimmy McMenemy and Davie Hamilton scoring the decisive goals.


1904–05 Scottish Division One
The 'Old firm' clubs (a term recently employed for the growing commercial draw of the frequent fixtures between them) had already been involved in two other unusual matches during that season:


1904–05 Scottish Division Two
The 1904–05 Scottish Division Two was won by Clyde with St Bernard's finishing bottom.


1904–05 Sheffield Shield season
The 1904–05 Sheffield Shield season was the 13th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. New South Wales won the championship.


1904–05 Small Heath F.C. season
The 1904–05 Football League season was Small Heath Football Club's 13th in the Football League and their 5th in the First Division. In third position in the 18-team league, only one point behind the leaders, with eight matches remaining, they gained only four points from the sixteen available, and finished seventh. They also took part in the 1904–05 FA Cup, entering at the first round proper and losing to Portsmouth in that round. In locally organised competition, they won the Birmingham Senior Cup for the first time, defeating West Bromwich Albion by seven goals to two. After this season, the club entered a primarily reserve team for this competition, which had previously not been permitted.


1904–05 Small Heath F.C. season
Nineteen players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were nine different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Nat Robinson, full-back Frank Stokes and forward Benny Green were all ever-present over the 35-match season. Billy Jones was leading scorer with 16 goals, all of which came in the league.


1904–05 Small Heath F.C. season
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held in March 1905, it was proposed that, Small Heath being the only major football club in the city since Birmingham St George's had folded in 1892, the club should be renamed Birmingham City F.C. The shareholders were not in favour, though they were prepared to go as far as plain Birmingham Football Club instead. Even this was a step too far for some; one reporter referred to "the Small Heath club now masquerading as Birmingham".


1904–05 Small Heath F.C. season
Events surrounding the February 1905 match with Aston Villa highlighted the Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000, though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000. The Birmingham Daily Mail reported "a constant stream of vehicles to the ground, while the trams were disgorging their freights at Muntz Street every two or three minutes."


1904–05 Small Heath F.C. season
Inside, "the swaying of the mass of spectators rendered the placing of additional supports against the barriers a necessary precaution", and children were passed overhead and placed on the pitch for their own safety. The following Monday the same newspaper commented that had space been available, another ten or fifteen thousand spectators might well have attended, as "hundreds of people found the doors closed against them, and probably there were thousands who would not go to the ground in view of the inevitable crush." The club's landlords would neither sell the freehold of the ground nor allow its expansion, so the directors began planning to move to a new home.


1904–05 Southern Football League
The 1904–05 season was the 11th in the history of Southern League. Bristol Rovers won Division One for the first time and Fulham reserves finished top of Division Two. Division Two club Clapton Orient were the only Southern League club to apply for election to the Football League, and were successful after a decision was made to expand the League to 40 clubs.


1904–05 Southern Football League, Division One
A total of 18 teams contest the division, including 17 sides from previous season and one new team. Watford returned to Division after one season of absence.


1904–05 Southern Football League, Division Two
A total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, three of which were reserve teams.


1904–05 Southern Football League, Football League elections
Only one Southern League club, Clapton Orient of Division Two, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. Although they were not elected in the first round, it was later agreed to expand theFootball League from 36 to 40 clubs and all the unsuccessful candidates except Doncaster Rovers were elected.


1904–05 Southern Football League, Football League elections
* Chelsea had played no games, nor had any players when they were elected. Hull City had been formed in 1904, but had only played friendly matches during the 1904–05 season.


1904–05 St Helens RLFC season
The 1904-1905 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's tenth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 31st in the club's sporting history. A year after gaining promotion back to the first division, ST Helens once again struggled, and finished second-bottom to suffer another relegation. St Helens also competed in the end-of-season South West Lancashire mini-league, but could only finish fourth out of six. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the second round by Broughton Red Rose.


1904–05 Stoke F.C. season
The 1904–05 season was Stoke's 16th season in the Football League.


1904–05 Stoke F.C. season
There was no relegation worries for Stoke this season due to the First Division being expanded to 20 clubs for the 1905–06 campaign. Stoke struggled for consistency and finished in a mid-table position of 12th after picking up 30 points.


1904–05 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League
The summer of 1904 saw a further exodus of players, including Arthur Capes who left for Bristol City and Leigh Richmond Roose who went to Everton. There was now a distinct lack of quality players available within the club and with these two major departures, the now despondent Stoke supporters saw very little hope of improvement out on the pitch. Tom Holford took over captaincy whilst Jack Whitley arrived as first choice 'keeper from Everton.


1904–05 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, League
James Sheridan an Irish International forward also came in from Everton, but never fitted in at the Victoria Ground although he did win an Ireland cap whilst at Stoke becoming the clubs first capped Irishman. Jack Hall another recruit signed from Newark, in October 1904 and his seven goals were only exceeded by Fred Rouse who was top scorer with 12. Not being able to field a settled forward line was a major problem for manager Horace Austerberry and 12th place in the division was the final outcome in an inconsistent season.


1904–05 Stoke F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
Stoke went out of this season FA Cup in the second round after being well beaten 4–0 at home to Everton.


1904–05 Swiss Serie A, Central
NB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.


1904–05 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team
The 1904–05 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John A. R. Scott, coaching his second season with the Orangemen.


1904–05 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of collegiate ice hockey.


1904–05 United States collegiate men's ice hockey season
Due to a lack of ice facilities, many programs were suspended starting in 1904. The schools to cease their ice hockey teams includes Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College and Williams College. Most would eventually restart their programs.


1904–05 Welsh Amateur Cup
The 1904–05 Welsh Amateur Cup was the fifteenth season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Esclusham White Stars who defeated Bangor Reserves 4-0 in the final, at Wrexham.


1904–05 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team
The 1904–05 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represents the University of West Virginia during the 1904–05 college men's basketball season. The team captain was James Gronninger. The Mountaineers finished with an overall record of 6–9.


1904–05 Western Football League
The 1904–05 season was the 13th in the history of the Western Football League.


1904–05 Western Football League
Plymouth Argyle were the champions of Division One for the first time, and along with all the other members of Division One, also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were Bristol Rovers Reserves, who completed the season unbeaten in the league.


1904–05 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One
Two new clubs joined Division One, which was increased to 11 clubs from nine.


1904–05 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two
One new club joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Paulton Rovers left to join the Somerset Senior League.


1904–05 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1904–1905 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Emmett Angell, coaching his first season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the Red Gym in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Western Conference.


1904–05 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team
The 1904–05 Wyoming Cowboys basketball team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1904–05 college basketball season. Coached by W. Yates in their first ever season, the Cowboys went 1–0, winning their lone game on April 21 against Laramie Town Team by a score of 17–5.


1904–05 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season
The 1904–05 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season was the 10th season of play for the program.


1904–05 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
Yale played a majority of their games at home for the first time in four years. Yale did not play any team from the Pittsburgh area for the first time since 1898 due to the collapse of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.


1904–05 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
Yale entered the final game of its season with the opportunity to win the intercollegiate championship, however, Harvard once again stymied the Elis.


1904–05 Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey season, Season
The team did not have a coach, however, Charles Goodyear II (the son of business magnate Charles W. Goodyear) served as team manager.


1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States
The 1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States began in December 1904, progressed through the regular season, and concluded in March 1905.


1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Regular season, Conference winners
NOTE: The Western Conference (the future Big Ten Conference) did not sponsor an official conference season or recognize a regular-season champion until the 1905–06 season. In 1904–05, Chicago (9–3) finished with the best winning percentage (.750) and Wisconsin (10–8) with the most wins.


1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States, Awards, Helms College Basketball All-Americans
The practice of selecting a Consensus All-American Team did not begin until the 1928–29 season. The Helms Athletic Foundation later retroactively selected a list of All-Americans for the 1904–05 season.


1904–05 in Belgian football
The 1904–05 season was the tenth competitive season in Belgian football.


1904–05 in Belgian football, Overview
Only one official division existed at the time. It was called Division I. The season was not completed.


1904–05 in Belgian football, Overview
Athletic and Running Club de Bruxelles withdrew at the end of the season.


1904–05 in Belgian football, National team
Belgium won its first official game against France on May 7, 1905.


1904–05 in English football
The 1904–05 season was the 34th season of competitive football in England.


1904–05 in English football, Events
Stockport County were replaced by Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division.


1904–05 in English football, Events
At the end of the 1904–05 season, the First Division was expanded to include 20 teams, sparing Bury and Notts County from relegation to the Second Division.


1904–05 in English football, Events
Manchester City, the previous season's FA Cup winners, were discovered to have been paying their players up to £6 or £7 per week instead of the legal maximum of £4 per week. The club's influential winger Billy Meredith was accused of bribing Aston Villa player Alex Leake and was faced with an 18-month ban from The Football Association, who further rebuked the club by dismissing five of its directors and banning a total of 17 players from ever playing for the club again.


1904–05 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1904–05 in Scottish football
The 1904–05 season was the 32nd season of competitive football in Scotland and the 15th season of the Scottish Football League.


1904–05 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One
Celtic became the champions after a playoff victory against Rangers after the two teams finished level on points.


1904–05 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One
The above table was slightly incorrect. Most reference books have the score for the game 19 November 1904 as Hearts 2 Port Glasgow Athletic 0. The actual score was 5–0. Therefore, Hearts should have 3 more goals and Port Glasgow 3 more in the against Column. Incorrect version that appears in most reference books.


1904–05 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division Two
Two teams were promoted from Division Two this season, as next season's Division One capacity increased to sixteen teams.


1904–05 in Scottish football, Scottish Cup
Third Lanark were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 3–1 replay win over Rangers.


1904–05 in Scottish football, Junior Cup
Ashfield were winners of the Junior Cup after a 2–1 win over Renfrew Vic.


1904–05 in Turkish football
The 1904–05 season was the first season of organized football in Turkey.


1904–05 in Turkish football
The Istanbul Football League featured only four clubs at the time: Moda FC, HMS Imogene FC, Elpis FC, and Cadi-Keuy FC. The first champions of league football in Turkey was Imogene, a team made up of Englishmen.


1904–05 in Turkish football
The first league of Turkey lasted for 55 years until it was replaced with the Turkish First Football League (now Turkcell Super League).


1904–1905 Welsh revival
The 1904–1905 Welsh revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century. It was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect on the population, and triggered revivals in several other countries. "The movement kept the churches of Wales filled for many years to come, seats being placed in the aisles in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea for twenty years or so, for example. Meanwhile, the Awakening swept the rest of Britain, Scandinavia, parts of Europe, North America, the mission fields of India and the Orient, Africa and Latin America."


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Background
The last previous revival in Wales was in 1859, but this followed other developments. From 1850 onwards Christianity in Wales was markedly less Calvinistic in form. A generation of powerful biblical preachers ended, as leaders such as Christmas Evans (1766–1838), John Elias (1744–1841) and Henry Rees (1798–1869) died.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Background
Between 1859 and 1904, there were local revivals in Cwmafan (1866), Rhondda (1879), Carmarthen and Blaenau Ffestiniog (1887), Dowlais (1890) and Pontnewydd (1892).


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, New Quay and Blaenannerch
A prominent leader of the Revival was the Methodist preacher of New Quay, Joseph Jenkins, who arranged a conference in New Quay in 1903 with the theme to deepen loyalty to Christ. After a meeting in February 1904, the regular Sunday meetings as well as the newly founded midweek meetings became lively and members of Joseph Jenkins' church went to other nearby towns and villages to 'witness' to the effects of how accepting Christ's message had influenced their lives.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, New Quay and Blaenannerch
In September a conference was held at Blaenannerch. It was reported that 'massive blessing' was upon this conference and the news quickly spread throughout the area and beyond. The South Wales Daily News picked up on the events and reported that "the third great revival was afoot through the nation! "—the other two being the Welsh Methodist revival and the 1859 Methodist revival.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Ammanford
In November 1904 Jenkins was invited as guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, the church of Nantlais Williams. When the appointment was arranged, there was no news yet of the conversions in New Quay and Blaenannerch, but an extra meeting was hastily arranged on the Sunday afternoon so that Joseph Jenkins could tell about the events there. Williams is recorded to have said that he was worried that there would be no interest in such a meeting and he was sceptical what the turnout would be; but when he arrived, he could only just squeeze into the chapel to hear Jenkins.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Ammanford
It had been arranged that Jenkins was to preach on the Monday night before his return to New Quay. The church was again full with people professing their faith in Jesus. Perhaps the most dramatic turn was when one of the crowd announced, "Another meeting like this will be held here tomorrow night…" That meeting was again well attended and went on until the early hours of the morning. Despite already having been ordained as a minister, on that weekend in November 1904 Williams had a conversion experience, on the Saturday night prior to Jenkins' arrival.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, North Wales
In December 1904 Joseph Jenkins embarked on three months of preaching and professing in areas of North Wales. Many meetings were held in Amlwch, Llangefni, Llanerchymedd, Talysarn, Llanllyfni, Llanrwst, Denbigh, and Dinorwig, and some students at the University of Wales Bangor were converted. But perhaps the most conversions were seen in Bethesda; another leader of the revival, J. T. Job, described the meeting held in Jerusalem, Bethesda on 22 December 1904 as "a hurricane".


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor
Evan Roberts was a young man influenced by the stories and experiences that were happening in New Quay and Blaenannerch. He decided to go to Newcastle Emlyn for ministerial training, and arrived in the revival in south Ceredigion. The news of the mass conversions in New Quay and Blaenannerch had already spread to Newcastle Emlyn and were a distraction for a man who had been sent there to study. Seth Joshua, another prominent leader of the revival, came to the area to hold meetings, which Roberts attended eagerly.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor
After his three months training at Newcastle Emlyn he was to return to Loughor to start his ministry. He claimed to have direct visions from the Holy Spirit: very specific visions, such as the number 100,000 representing the souls God intended to use him to save. As the revival unfolded Roberts is said to have depended increasingly upon what he considered the guidance of the Holy Spirit.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor
Response to Roberts' ministry was initially slow, but soon the crowds turned out and the meetings were carried on until the early hours of the morning. After the meeting at Loughor, Roberts assembled a team and went on a tour of the South Wales valleys to spread the revival.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor
Roberts did not take well the decline of the revival, and the frustration of great expectations of a worldwide revival that had arisen in his team, and afterwards fell into depression. He was then housed by a friend in England at Leicester, and co-wrote a book with his friend's wife Jessie Penn-Lewis, War on the Saints, believed by some to be heretical because of its use of the term "possession" to describe demonic spirits' potential effect on believers, from which he dissociated himself after he recovered from depression and the book was severely criticised.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Evan Roberts and Loughor
In 1913, when Roberts's mother was dying, his brother Dan tried to see him to ask him to visit his mother. Roberts refused contact. Eventually "Awstin", the reporter of the revival, gained access. There were rumours that Roberts was being held prisoner by the Penn-Lewises. Roberts spoke freely about how God was preparing him for his next great work, and sent, via "Awstin", "God's message to the churches of south Wales". Because of Roberts's treatment of his mother the message was ignored.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Aberdare
Aberdare became a major centre of the revival and the first area that Evan Roberts visited following his initial meetings at Loughor. In the Aberdare area, the revival aroused alarm among ministers for the revolutionary, even anarchistic, impact it had upon chapel congregations and denominational organization. In particular, it was seen as drawing attention away from pulpit preaching and the role of the minister. The local newspaper, the Aberdare Leader, regarded the revival with suspicion from the outset, objecting to the 'abnormal heat' which it engendered. Trecynon was particularly affected by the revival, and the meetings held there were said to have aroused more emotion and excitement than the more restrained meetings in Aberdare itself. The impact of the revival was significant in the short term, but in the longer term was fairly transient.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Role of newspapers
For the first time, the newspapers had a role in this revival. The Western Mail and the South Wales Daily News, Wales' daily newspapers, spread news of conversions and generated an air of excitement that helped to fuel the revival. The Western Mail in particular gave extensive coverage to Roberts' meetings in Loughor. The articles were gathered together and published as a series of seven pamphlets, including copies of picture postcards of the revivalists that were published at the time. The contents of the final pamphlet are credited by some as killing the revival.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Revival begins, Role of newspapers
Peter Price, a minister from Dowlais, wrote a letter that was very critical of Evan Roberts. Price wanted to distinguish between the genuine revival that he believed was going on and a sham revival he associated with Evan Roberts. The pamphlet contains many letters in support of Evan Roberts (the majority), and a few supporting Price. Vyrynwy Morgan gives further letters supporting Price.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Interpretations
The Welsh revival has been described not as an isolated religious movement, but as very much a part of Britain's modernisation. The revival began in late 1904 under the leadership of Evan Roberts (1878–1951), a 26-year-old former collier and minister in training. The revival lasted less than a year, but in that time 100,000 people were converted. Begun as an effort to kindle non-denominational, non-sectarian spirituality, the Welsh revival of 1904-05 coincided with the rise of the labour movement, socialism, and a general disaffection with religion among the working class and youths.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Interpretations
Placed in context, the short-lived revival appears as both a climax for Nonconformism and a flashpoint of change in Welsh religious life. The movement spread to Scotland and England, with estimates that a million people were converted in Britain. Missionaries subsequently carried the movement abroad; it was especially influential on the Pentecostal movement emerging in California.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Interpretations
Unlike earlier religious revivals based on powerful preaching, the revival of 1904–05 relied primarily on music and on alleged supernatural phenomena as exemplified by the visions of Evan Roberts. The intellectual emphasis of the earlier revivals had left a dearth of religious imagery that the visions supplied. The visions also challenged the denial of the spiritual and miraculous element of Scripture by opponents of the revival, who held liberal and critical theological positions. The structure and content of the visions not only repeated those of Scripture and earlier Christian mystical tradition but also illuminated the personal and social tensions that the revival addressed by juxtaposing Biblical images with scenes familiar to contemporary Welsh believers.


1904–1905 Welsh revival, Interpretations
The after-effects of the revival were considered by Vyrynwy Morgan in the final chapter of his book, which gives the figures for convictions for drunkenness in the county of Glamorgan for the years 1902 to 1907, supplied by the police. There is a near 50% reduction after the revival.


1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
The 1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar was an uprising in Madagascar that lasted from 17 November 1904 to 30 August 1905. Its causes laid in French disregard for Malagasy culture, executions without trial by French administrators, heavy taxation, and forced labour.


1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar
Malagasy Protestants tended to support the uprising, while Malagasy Catholics tended to oppose it. For this reason, a large amount of Catholic churches were burned down by the rebels.


1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline
It began on 17 November 1904, when Sergent Vinay, chief of the military post of Amparihy, was stabbed to death by a group of Malagasy rebels in his cabin in the village of Marotsipanga. The murderers included a chieftain named Mahafiry and his two sons Imoza and Fandrana. Upon sharing the news of the murder on 19 November, Mahafiry convinced locals in Amparihy to join him in an uprising against French rule in Madagascar. Rebel military decisions at that point came to be handled by 2 indigenous corporals, Kotavy and Tsimanindry.


1904–1905 uprising in Madagascar, Timeline
A subsequent French punitive expedition by Lieutenant Baguet would end up being a disaster for the French, with the French assault on Amparihy being repelled and with Baguet being killed. Kotavy's exploits in the Battle of Amparihy transformed him, almost overnight, from a French deserter to a revolutionary leader aimed at overthrowing French rule in Madagascar.