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| Date | November 25, 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Rosedale Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Toronto,Ontario | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Herbert Molson (1st half) Dr. G. Dalton (2nd half) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 7,000[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
The1905 Dominion Championship was aCanadian football game that was played on November 25, 1905 atRosedale Field inToronto,Ontario that determined theSenior Rugby Football champion of Canada for the1905 season.[1][2] TheCanadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU) championToronto University team defeated theQuebec Rugby Football Union (QRFU) championOttawa Rough Riders in an 11–9 comeback victory to win their second Dominion Championship.[1][3] This was the third appearance in the title game for Varsity and the fourth appearance for the Rough Riders while also being their first loss in the championship game.[2][3]
This was the first national championship game played since1902 since there had been disputes for the previous two years as to which rules to play under.[4] TheOntario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) championHamilton Tigers finished their season with a 6–0 record and challenged the Rough Riders for the Dominion Championship. However, the Tigers did not want to travel toOttawa to play the game and the Rough Riders did not want to go toHamilton, so theCanadian Rugby Union (CRU) banned the Tigers from playing in the game (the Tigers also played withBurnside rules whereas the Rough Riders played with traditional rugby-style rules).[4] With a third straight year of cancellations looming, the CRU reached a rules compromise with this game whereby the first half of the game would be played under QRFU rules and the second half would be played under CIRFU rules.[1][4] The differences were primarily scoring-based, with tries worth four points and goal worth two points in the QRFU and tries being worth five points and goals being worth one point in the CIRFU.[4] Additionally, in the first half, teams needed to gain five yards on third down while in the second half, teams needed 10 yards.[4]
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