1895 college football season

1895 college football season
1895 Penn Quakers
Total # of teams	27[1]
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Penn Quakers Yale Bulldogs
College football seasons « 1894 1896 »

The 1895 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.^[2]

Conference and program changes

• The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association began its first season of play in 1895.

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
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

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1895 CFA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado $ 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1895 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 Michigan   –       8 – 1 – 0 Chicago   –       10 – 3 – 0 Harvard   –       8 – 2 – 1 Minnesota   –       7 – 3 – 0 Lafayette   –       6 – 2 – 0 Oregon   –       4 – 0 – 0 Stanford   –       4 – 0 – 1 Washington   –       4 – 0 – 1 Tufts   –       8 – 5 – 0 Wesleyan   –       6 – 3 – 0 Army   –       5 – 2 – 0 Wisconsin   –       5 – 2 – 1 Illinois   –       4 – 2 – 1 Notre Dame   –       3 – 1 – 0 Washington Agricultural   –       2 – 0 – 0 California   –       3 – 1 – 1 Northwestern   –       6 – 5 – 0 Purdue   –       4 – 3 – 0 Brown   –       7 – 6 – 1 USC   –       0 – 1 – 1 Cornell   –       3 – 4 – 1 Utah   –       0 – 1 – 0 Iowa State   –       3 – 4 – 0 Oregon Agricultural   –       0 – 2 – 1 MIT   –       1 – 4 – 0 Trinity (CT)   –       1 – 4 – 0 Lehigh   –       3 – 6 – 0 Lake Forest   –       1 – 6 – 0	1895 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T North Carolina $ 3 – 0 – 1     7 – 1 – 1 Vanderbilt 3 – 1 – 0     5 – 3 – 1 Auburn 2 – 1 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 Georgia 2 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 Tulane 1 – 2 – 0     3 – 2 – 0 Sewanee 0 – 2 – 1     2 – 2 – 1 Alabama 0 – 4 – 0     0 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion
1895 Triangular Football League standings Conf     Overall Team W   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 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Kansas + 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 0 Nebraska + 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 3 – 0 Missouri + 2 – 1 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 Iowa 0 – 3 – 0     2 – 5 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Albion	3–0–0

Minor conferences

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

See also

• 1895 College Football All-America Team

References

1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1895.htm
2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.