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.

1895 college football season
1895 Penn Quakers
Champion(s)Penn
Yale
football seasons

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
School1894 Conference1895 Conference
Alabama Crimson TideIndependentSIAA
Auburn TigersIndependentSIAA
Georgia BulldogsIndependentSIAA
Georgia Tech Yellow JacketsIndependentSIAA
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

Major conference standings
1895 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado $ 3 –0 –0  5 –1 –0
Colorado Mines 1 –1 –0  1 –1 –0
Denver 0 –1 –1  0 –3 –2
Colorado College 0 –2 –1  1 –2 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Vanderbilt 3 –0 –0  5 –3 –1
Auburn 2 –1 –0  2 –1 –0
Georgia 2 –2 –0  3 –4 –0
Sewanee 0 –2 –0  2 –2 –1
Alabama 0 –2 –0  0 –4 –0
1895 Triangular Football League standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –0  7 –5 –1
Amherst 1 –1 –0  6 –5 –0
Williams 0 –2 –0  4 –5 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1895 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Missouri + 2 –1 –0  7 –1 –0
Kansas + 2 –1 –0  6 –1 –0
Nebraska + 2 –1 –0  6 –3 –0
Iowa 0 –3 –0  2 –5 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn   –    14 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –0 –2
Princeton   –    10 –1 –1
Harvard   –    8 –2 –1
Lafayette   –    6 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    6 –2 –2
Army   –    5 –2 –0
Colgate   –    4 –2 –0
Tufts   –    8 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    6 –3 –0
Amherst   –    6 –5 –0
Brown   –    7 –6 –1
Carlisle   –    4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    4 –4 –0
Villanova   –    3 –3 –0
Penn State   –    2 –2 –3
Cornell   –    3 –4 –1
New Hampshire   –    2 –3 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –    3 –5 –1
Boston College   –    2 –4 –2
Lehigh   –    3 –6 –0
CCNY   –    2 –5 –1
Temple   –    1 –4 –1
MIT   –    1 –4 –0
Trinity (CT)   –    1 –4 –0
Massachusetts   –    1 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.   –    1 –6 –0
1895 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Washington University   –    2 –0 –0
Michigan   –    8 –1 –0
Chicago   –    10 –3 –0
Wittenberg   –    5 –2 –0
Minnesota   –    7 –3 –0
Wisconsin   –    5 –2 –1
Wabash   –    6 –3 –0
Illinois   –    4 –2 –1
Baldwin–Wallace   –    3 –1 –0
Notre Dame   –    3 –1 –0
Northwestern   –    6 –5 –0
Purdue   –    4 –3 –0
Indiana   –    4 –3 –1
Buchtel   –    3 –2 –0
Doane   –    3 –2 –0
Butler   –    2 –2 –0
Cincinnati   –    3 –3 –0
Haskell   –    1 –1 –0
Michigan State Normal   –    3 –3 –0
North Dakota Agricultural   –    1 –1 –0
Ohio State   –    4 –4 –2
Iowa Agricultural   –    3 –4 –0
Ohio   –    2 –3 –0
Ohio Wesleyan   –    2 –4 –1
Lake Forest   –    1 –2 –0
Northwestern Law   –    1 –2 –0
Drake   –    1 –4 –0
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
1895 Far West college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Occidental   –    5 –0 –0
Oregon   –    4 –0 –0
New Mexico A&M   –    2 –0 –0
Washington Agricultural   –    2 –0 –0
Wyoming   –    1 –0 –0
Stanford   –    4 –0 –1
Washington   –    4 –0 –1
California   –    3 –1 –1
USC   –    0 –1 –1
Oregon Agricultural   –    0 –2 –1
Utah   –    0 –1 –0

Minor conferences
Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Olivet 3–0

See also

References
  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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