1895 college football season 1895 Penn Quakers
Champion(s) Pennsylvania Yale
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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]
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 [ ] The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
School
1894 Conference
1895 Conference
Alabama Crimson Tide Independent
SIAA
Auburn Tigers Independent
SIAA
Georgia Bulldogs Independent
SIAA
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Independent
SIAA
Henry Kendall Orange and Black Program established Independent
Marshall football Program established Independent
Mississippi A&M Aggies Program established Independent
North Carolina Tar Heels Independent
SIAA
Oklahoma Sooners Program established Independent
Sewanee Tigers Independent
SIAA
Tulane Green Wave Independent
SIAA
Vanderbilt Commodores Independent
SIAA
Conference standings [ ] Conference standings [ ]
1895 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W
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
1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W
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 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W
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
Team W
L
T W
L
T
Penn
–
14
–
0
–
0
Yale
–
13
–
0
–
2
Princeton
–
10
–
1
–
1
Washington & Jefferson
–
6
–
1
–
1
Harvard
–
8
–
2
–
1
Lafayette
–
6
–
2
–
0
Syracuse
–
6
–
2
–
2
Army
–
5
–
2
–
0
Bucknell
–
5
–
2
–
0
Colgate
–
4
–
2
–
0
Swarthmore
–
7
–
4
–
1
Tufts
–
8
–
5
–
0
Villanova
–
4
–
2
–
0
Wesleyan
–
6
–
3
–
0
Amherst
–
6
–
5
–
0
Brown
–
7
–
6
–
1
Carlisle
–
4
–
4
–
0
Drexel
–
3
–
3
–
1
Penn State
–
2
–
2
–
3
Cornell
–
3
–
4
–
1
Rutgers
–
3
–
4
–
0
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
Geneva
–
0
–
5
–
0
1895 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W
L
T W
L
T
Miami (OH)
–
3
–
0
–
0
Carthage
–
2
–
0
–
0
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
Chicago P&S
–
3
–
2
–
1
Butler
–
2
–
2
–
0
Cincinnati
–
3
–
3
–
0
Haskell
–
1
–
1
–
0
Michigan State Normal
–
3
–
3
–
0
North Dakota Agricultural
–
1
–
1
–
0
North Dakota
–
1
–
1
–
0
Ohio State
–
4
–
4
–
2
Iowa Agricultural
–
3
–
4
–
0
Ohio
–
2
–
3
–
0
Rush-Lake Forest
–
4
–
6
–
0
Ohio Wesleyan
–
2
–
4
–
1
Iowa State Normal
–
1
–
2
–
0
Lake Forest
–
1
–
2
–
0
Northwestern Law
–
1
–
2
–
0
Drake
–
1
–
4
–
0
1895 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W
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
Centenary
–
1
–
1
–
0
Wake Forest
–
0
–
0
–
1
Marshall
–
0
–
1
–
1
Columbian
–
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
Team W
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
Pacific (CA)
–
0
–
0
–
1
Saint Mary's
–
1
–
1
–
0
San Jose State
–
0
–
0
–
1
USC
–
0
–
1
–
1
Oregon Agricultural
–
0
–
2
–
1
Utah
–
0
–
1
–
0
Minor conferences [ ]
Conference
Champion(s)
Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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