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BASEBALL

defeated the Philadelphia Athletics four games to one.

Debutes: Hal Chase ( April 14 ), Ty Cobb ( August 30 ), Eddie Cicotte ( September 3 )

Final season: Jesse Burkett

Trades:

--- traded Jesse Burkett and Frank Huelsman to the Boston Americans for George Stone.

FOOTBALL ( AUSTRALIAN RULES )

Victorian Football League

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

--- ''See also Victorian Football League Season 1905 ''

FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

England

First Division - Newcastle United win the 1904-05 title.

FA Cup - Aston Villa beat Newcastle United 2-0.

Alf Common becomes the first player ever to be transferred for £ 1000.

The First and Second divisions are both expanded from eighteen to twenty teams for the 1905-06 season, bringing the total number of League clubs to 40.

Turkey

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

FOOTBALL (AMERICAN)

The College Football season is blighted by 15 fatal injuries, as a result of which US President Theodore Roosevelt calls upon the game's authorities to reform it.

ICE HOCKEY

Ottawa Silver Seven win their 3rd Stanley Cup , defeating the Rat Portage Thistles 2 games to 0.

BIRTHS

January 14 — Sven Rydell , Swedish football (soccer) player (d. 1975 )

April 8 — Erwin Keller , German field hockey player (d. ??)

May 9 — Lili De Alvarez , Spanish multi-sport competitor, tennis champion, author and journalist (d. 1998 )

July 22 — Doc Cramer , American baseball player (d. 1990 )

September 29 — Fidel La Barba , US boxer and sportswriter (d. 1981 )

October 6 — Helen Wills , American tennis player (d. 1999 )

October 10 — Wally Berger , American baseball player (d. 1988 )

DEATHS

September 10 , Pete Browning