1895 college football season

The 1895 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1895–96 academic year.

The 1895 Penn Quakers football team, led by head coach George Washington Woodruff, compiled a perfect 14–0 record and is recognized as the 1895 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. One selector, Parke H. Davis, recognized both Penn and Yale as co-national champions.[1] Yale compiled a 13–0–2 record.

In the Midwest, Michigan led the way with an 8–1 record, the only loss coming in a road game against Harvard. In the South, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association played its first year of college football with Vanderbilt winning the first conference championship.

Ten of the eleven players selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney to the 1895 All-America college football team came from Penn, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The eleventh player was quarterback Clint Wyckoff from Cornell. Six of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Wyckoff, halfbacks Sam Thorne (Yale) and George H. Brooke(Penn), fullback Charley Brewer (Harvard), end Charles Gelbert (Penn), tackle Langdon Lea (Princeton), and guard Charles Wharton (Penn).

Conference and program changes

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School1894 Conference1895 Conference
Alabama Crimson TideIndependentSIAA
Auburn TigersIndependentSIAA
Georgia BulldogsIndependentSIAA
Henry Kendall Orange and BlackProgram establishedIndependent
Marshall footballProgram establishedIndependent
Mississippi A&M AggiesProgram establishedIndependent
North Carolina Tar HeelsIndependentSIAA
Oklahoma SoonersProgram establishedIndependent
Sewanee TigersIndependentSIAA
Tulane Green WaveIndependentSIAA
Vanderbilt CommodoresIndependentSIAA

Conference standings

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Conference standings

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1895 Colorado Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Colorado $300510
Colorado Mines110110
Denver011032
Colorado College021121
  • $ – Conference champion
1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Vanderbilt300531
Auburn210210
Georgia220340
Sewanee020221
Alabama020040
1895 Triangular Football League standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth $200751
Amherst110650
Williams020450
  • $ – Conference champion
1895 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Missouri +210710
Kansas +210610
Nebraska +210630
Iowa030250
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents

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1895 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn  1400
Yale  1302
Princeton  1011
Washington & Jefferson  611
Harvard  821
Lafayette  620
Syracuse  622
Army  520
Bucknell  520
Colgate  420
Swarthmore  741
Tufts  850
Villanova  420
Wesleyan  630
Amherst  650
Brown  761
Carlisle  440
Drexel  331
Penn State  223
Cornell  341
Rutgers  340
New Hampshire  231
Frankin & Marshall  351
Boston College  242
Lehigh  360
CCNY  251
Buffalo  142
Temple  141
MIT  140
Trinity (CT)  140
Massachusetts  150
Western Univ. Penn.  160
Geneva  050
1895 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Miami (OH)  300
Carthage  200
Washington University  200
Michigan  810
Chicago  1030
Wittenberg  520
Minnesota  730
Wisconsin  521
Wabash  630
Illinois  421
Baldwin–Wallace  310
Notre Dame  310
Northwestern  650
Purdue  430
Indiana  431
Buchtel  320
Doane  320
Chicago P&S  321
Butler  220
Cincinnati  330
Michigan State Normal  330
North Dakota Agricultural  110
North Dakota  110
Ohio State  442
Iowa Agricultural  340
Ohio  230
Rush-Lake Forest  460
Ohio Wesleyan  241
Haskell  120
Iowa State Normal  120
Lake Forest  120
Northwestern Law  120
Drake  140
1895 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Texas  500
LSU  300
Arkansas  100
Henry Kendall  100
North Carolina  711
VMI  510
West Virginia  510
Centre  411
Virginia  930
Wofford  310
Navy  520
Ole Miss  210
South Carolina  210
VAMC  420
Tulane  320
Tennessee  321
Centenary  110
Guilford  110
Kentucky State College  450
North Carolina A&M  121
Central (KY)  120
Wake Forest  001
Marshall  011
Delaware  130
Columbian  011
Richmond  051
Catholic University  010
Oklahoma  010
Furman  020
Mississippi A&M  020
1895 Far West college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Occidental  500
New Mexico A&M  200
Washington Agricultural  200
Wyoming  100
Stanford  401
Washington  401
California  311
Pacific (CA)  001
Saint Mary's  110
San Jose State  001
USC  011
Utah  010

Minor conferences

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ConferenceChampion(s)Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationOlivet3–0

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.