1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team

The 1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team unofficially represented the University of Tennessee in the 1895 season. In October 1894, the Athletic Association had resolved to drop varsity football and look forward to baseball in the spring of 1895.

1895 Tennessee Volunteers football
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record3–2–1
Head coachW. B. Stokely (student coach)
1895 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Texas      5 0 0
LSU      3 0 0
Arkansas      1 0 0
Henry Kendall      1 0 0
North Carolina      7 1 1
VMI      5 1 0
West Virginia      5 1 0
Centre      4 1 1
Wofford      3 1 0
Virginia      9 3 0
Navy      5 2 0
VAMC      4 2 0
Ole Miss      2 1 0
South Carolina      2 1 0
Tennessee      3 2 1
Tulane      3 2 0
Kentucky State      4 5 0
North Carolina A&M      1 2 1
Delaware      1 3 0
Wake Forest      0 0 1
Marshall      0 1 1
Catholic University      0 1 0
Oklahoma      0 1 0
Furman      0 2 0
Mississippi A&M      0 2 0
Richmond      0 5 1

W.B. Stokely, a UT senior who transferred from Wake Forest University in 1894, again persuaded a group of students to form a team in the fall of 1895. Stokely, who was elected captain, gave encouragement and direction to the other players. Even though the institution chose not to be represented officially on the gridiron in 1895, as in 1894, Stokely and his unofficial team kept football interest alive during this period when almost certainly it otherwise would have been allowed to lapse completely.

These unofficial games, referred to as "The Lost Years", are not included in NCAA statistics or in official UT win-loss records.

1895 was the second and final student-coached team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 19vs. Knoxville YMCAKnoxville, TNW 4–0
November 2MaryvilleKnoxville, TNT 6–6
November 4at Bingham SchoolAsheville, NCW 12–0
November 14at Fort McPhersonAtlanta, GAL 0–28
November 28at Saint Alban'sBristol, TNL 0–38
November 30Tennessee Medical UnitKnoxville, TNW 40–0

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