The 1904 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University

Auburn University

Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...

 in the 1904–1905 college football

College football

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 season.

The team went undefeated, winning all five of its regular season games. It also won two "practice" games against Montgomery and the University of Florida. The Tigers defense was nearly perfect, outscoring opponents 73–11 in regular season play and completing three shut outs (five counting the practice games). This was the first undefeated Auburn team since 1900 and was the fourth time the Tigers went undefeated.

The squad was coached by Mike Donahue

Mike Donahue

Michael Joseph "Iron Mike" Donahue was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, soccer, and golf, and a college athletics administrator...

 in his first year as a head football coach. Donahue coached two separate times at Auburn (1904–1906 and 1908–1922) before moving to LSU

LSU Tigers football

The LSU Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in NCAA Division I FBS college football. Current head coach Les Miles has led the team since 2005. Since 1999 when Nick Saban took over as...

. He also served as athletic director, basketball coach, baseball coach, and track coach during his tenure. Donahue still ranks second on Auburn football coaches' all time career win list and third in winning percentage.

Schedule

|+ Auburn Tigers – 1904 Season
‡The October 4, 1904 game against the University of Florida was considered a practice game by Auburn and is not included in the official record of 5–0 for the season. Furthermore, the institution known as the University of Florida in 1904 was located in Lake City, FL and was previously known as Florida Agricultural College. It was one of four colleges combined to form the modern day University of Florida in Gainesville, FL under the Buckman Act passed by the Florida Legislature

Florida Legislature

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 in May 1905. Since the present day institution known as University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

did not exist prior to 1905, it does not recognize this game.