# 1894 college football season

The 1894 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1894–95 academic year.
The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team compiled a perfect 16–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 485 to 13, and has been recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and National Championship Foundation, and as co-champion by Parke H. Davis.
Penn also compiled a perfect record (12–0) and was recognized as the co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Despite suffering losses to both Yale and Penn, Princeton was recognized as the national champion under the Houlgate System.
All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp to the 1894 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Princeton, Yale, and Harvard) or Penn. Six of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: halfback George Brooke, end Frank Hinkey (Yale), end Charlie Gelbert, tackle Langdon Lea (Princeton), guard Art Wheeler (Princeton), and guard Bill Hickok (Yale).
New programs established in 1893 included Arkansas, Oregon, and Texas A&M.
On November 29, college football was first played in the state of Florida by Stetson University.

## Conference and program changes
### Conference changes

* Three conferences began play in 1894:
** Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association – active until 1899
** Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – now a Division III conference
** Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association – active until 1942
* Two conferences played their final seasons in 1894:
** Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association – founded in 1890
** Middle States Intercollegiate Football League – founded in 1893

### Membership changes

| School | 1893 Conference | 1894 Conference |
| Arkansas Cardinals | Program Established | Independent |
| Buffalo football | Program Established | Independent |
| Idaho football | Program Established | Independent |
| Johns Hopkins Blue Jays | Independent | MIFA |
| Maryland Agricultural Terrapins | Independent | MIFA |
| Oregon Webfoots | Program Established | Independent |
| Texas A&M Aggies | Program Established | Independent |

## Conference standings
### Major conference standings

1894 Colorado Football Association standings :
| 1894 Colorado Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Colorado $ 5 –0 –08 –1 –0 Colorado Mines 1 –2 –01 –2 –0 Denver 1 –3 –01 –3 –0 Colorado College 0 –1 –01 –2 –0 Colorado Agricultural 0 –1 –00 –1 –0 $ – Conference champion | 1894 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Purdue $ 4 –0 –09 –1 –0 Butler 3 –1 –06 –1 –0 Wabash 2 –3 –04 –5 –0 Indiana 0 –4 –00 –4 –1 $ – Conference champion | 1894 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Maryland 2 –2 –04 –3 –0 $ – Conference champion |
| 1894 Triangular Football League standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –05 –4 –0 Williams 1 –1 –06 –3 –1 Amherst 0 –2 –07 –5 –1 $ – Conference champion | 1894 Western Interstate University Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Missouri + 2 –1 –04 –3 –0 Nebraska + 2 –1 –06 –2 –0 Kansas 1 –2 –02 –3 –1 Iowa 1 –2 –04 –4 –1 + – Conference co-champions |

### Independents

1894 Eastern college football independents records :
| 1894 Eastern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Yale   –  16 –0 –0 Penn   –  12 –0 –0 Villanova   –  1 –0 –0 Penn State   –  6 –0 –1 Harvard   –  11 –2 –0 Geneva   –  5 –1 –0 Princeton   –  8 –2 –0 Temple   –  4 –1 –0 Holy Ghost College   –  7 –2 –1 Washington & Jefferson   –  5 –2 –1 Brown   –  10 –5 –0 Bucknell   –  5 –3 –0 Colgate   –  2 –1 –1 Army   –  3 –2 –0 Frankin & Marshall   –  6 –4 –0 Cornell   –  6 –4 –1 Amherst   –  7 –5 –0 Trinity (CT)   –  4 –3 –0 Syracuse   –  6 –5 –0 Tufts   –  6 –5 –0 Massachusetts   –  3 –3 –0 Swarthmore   –  5 –5 –0 Western Univ. Penn   –  1 –1 –0 Lafayette   –  5 –6 –0 New Hampshire   –  2 –3 –0 Rutgers   –  4 –6 –0 Lehigh   –  5 –9 –0 Williams   –  1 –3 –0 Drexel   –  1 –3 –0 MIT   –  1 –4 –0 Boston College   –  1 –6 –0 Carlisle   –  1 –8 –0 Buffalo   –  0 –2 –0 NYU   –  0 –3 –0 Wesleyan   –  0 –5 –0 | 1894 Midwestern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Western Reserve   –  7 –0 –0 North Dakota Agricultural   –  2 –0 –0 Baldwin–Wallace   –  1 –0 –0 Buchtel   –  1 –0 –0 Michigan   –  9 –1 –1 Iowa Agricultural   –  5 –1 –0 College Of Emporia   –  4 –1 –0 Minnesota   –  3 –1 –0 Washburn   –  3 –1 –0 Wittenberg   –  6 –2 –0 Doane   –  5 –2 –0 Wisconsin   –  5 –2 –0 Notre Dame   –  3 –1 –1 Beloit   –  6 –3 –0 Washington University   –  2 –1 –0 Chicago   –  14 –7 –1 Ohio State   –  6 –5 –0 Case   –  4 –3 –0 Illinois   –  4 –3 –0 Oberlin   –  4 –3 –1 Cincinnati   –  3 –3 –0 Drake   –  2 –2 –0 Mount Union   –  4 –5 –0 Lake Forest   –  3 –4 –0 Miami (OH)   –  1 –2 –0 Ohio Wesleyan   –  1 –3 –0 Rush Medical   –  3 –6 –0 Northwestern   –  1 –5 –0 Ohio   –  0 –1 –0 South Dakota   –  0 –2 –0 | 1894 Southern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T VMI   –  6 –0 –0 Hampden–Sydney   –  1 –0 –0 Tennessee   –  2 –0 –2 Vanderbilt   –  7 –1 –0 Ole Miss   –  6 –1 –0 Texas   –  6 –1 –0 Georgia   –  5 –1 –0 Kentucky State College   –  5 –1 –0 VAMC   –  4 –1 –0 Virginia   –  8 –2 –0 Centre   –  3 –1 –0 Alabama   –  3 –1 –0 Navy   –  4 –1 –2 North Carolina   –  6 –3 –0 Arkansas   –  2 –1 –0 LSU   –  2 –1 –0 West Virginia   –  2 –2 –0 Texas A&M   –  1 –1 –0 Delaware   –  1 –1 –0 Georgetown   –  4 –5 –0 Sewanee   –  3 –4 –0 Auburn   –  1 –3 –0 Johns Hopkins   –  1 –4 –1 Richmond   –  0 –4 –2 Centenary   –  0 –1 –0 Trinity (NC)   –  0 –1 –0 William & Mary   –  0 –1 –0 North Carolina A&M   –  0 –2 –0 South Carolina   –  0 –2 –0 Georgia Tech   –  0 –3 –0 Tulane   –  0 –4 –0 |
| 1894 Far West college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Wyoming   –  3 –0 –0 USC   –  1 –0 –0 Stanford   –  6 –3 –0 Saint Mary's   –  2 –2 –0 Washington Agricultural   –  1 –1 –0 Washington   –  1 –1 –1 Utah   –  1 –2 –0 California   –  0 –1 –2 New Mexico A&M   –  0 –1 –0 |

### Minor conferences

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

### Minor independents

1894 Kentucky state football standings :
* 1894 Kentucky state football standings
* vteConfOverall
* TeamW L TW L T
* Kentucky State*
* 5
* –2
* –0
* Centre
* 3
* –1
* –0
* * – State champion