Sports season
1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season League NCAA Sport College football Duration October 12, 1895 through November 28, 1895 Number of teams 5 Season champions None
The inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1895 college football season . The association's inaugural season began on October 12, 1895. The first conference game was played on October 26 with North Carolina at Georgia , featuring what some claim is the first forward pass .[1] [n 1]
The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley , a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt .[2] The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South".[3]
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (S. I. A. A.) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools. Every member of the current Southeastern Conference except Arkansas and Missouri , as well as six of the 15 current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference plus the University of Texas at Austin , now of the Big 12 Conference (and previously of the now defunct Southwest Conference ), formerly held membership in the SIAA.
No conference members claimed a championship. Some publications dubbed North Carolina the SIAA champions for racking up a 3–0–1 road trip against SIAA opponents.[4] Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.
Regular season [ ]
Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup
SIAA teams in bold .
Week One [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
October 12
Vanderbilt
Missouri
Columbia, MO
L 16–0
[5]
Week Two [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
October 19
Vanderbilt
Central (KY)
Richmond, KY
W 10–0
October 19
Wofford
Georgia
Herty Field • Athens, GA
W 34–0
Week Three [ ]
Date
Time
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
October 26
3:30 p. m.
North Carolina
Georgia
Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA
L 6–0
1,500
[6] [7]
October 28
North Carolina
Vanderbilt
Dudley Field • Nashville, TN
L 12–0
[8]
October 29
North Carolina
Sewanee
McGee Field • Sewanee, TN
T 0–0
October 31
North Carolina
Georgia
Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA
L 10–6
Week Four [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
November 2
Cumberland
Sewanee
McGee Field • Sewanee, TN
W 16–6
November 2
Centre
Vanderbilt
Dudley Field • Nashville, TN
T 0–0
November 2
Alabama
Georgia
Wildwood Park • Columbus, GA
UGA 30–6
500
Week Five [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
November 9
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Dudley Field • Nashville, TN
VAN 9–6
November 9
Nashville
Sewanee
McGee Field • Sewanee, TN
W 16–0
Week Six [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
November 16
Virginia
Vanderbilt
Atlanta, GA
L 6–4
[9]
November 16
Alabama
Tulane
New Orleans, LA
TUL 22–0
1,000
November 18
Alabama
LSU
State Field • Baton Rouge, LA
L 12–6
November 18
Sewanee
Georgia
Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA
SEW 22–0
Week Seven [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
November 23
Auburn
Alabama
The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL
AUB 48–0
November 23
Georgia
Vanderbilt
Dudley Field • Nashville, TN
VAN 6–0
1,200
[10]
Week Eight [ ]
Date
Visiting team
Home team
Site
Result
Attendance
Reference
November 28
Auburn
Georgia
Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA
AUB 16–6
November 28
Vanderbilt
Sewanee
McGee Field • Sewanee, TN
VAN 18–6
Awards and honors [ ]
All-Southerns [ ]
Notes [ ]
^ This began a 6 day, 4 conference game road trip in which North Carolina posted a 3–0–1 record
References [ ]
^ "Tar Heels Credited with Throwing First Forward Pass" . Tar Heel Times . tarheeltimes.com. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2011-07-12 .
^ Greg Roza, Football in the SEC (Southeastern Conference) , p. 1, 2007, ISBN 1-4042-1919-6 .
^ Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association (PDF) . Athens, GA: E. D. Stone. 1895. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 13 October 2011 .
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-07-11 .CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )
^ "Missouri Boys Are All Right" . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . October 13, 1895. p. 10. Retrieved December 15, 2016 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "An Exciting Game" . The Daily Tar Heel . November 2, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "North Carolina Won" . The Wilmington Morning Star . October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Vanderbilt Game" . The Daily Tar Heel . November 8, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Virginia-Vanderbilt Game" . The Charlotte Observer . November 17, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Looks Like Robbery" . Atlanta Constitution . November 24, 1895. p. 15. Retrieved July 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
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