# 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.
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. 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

* 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 |
| 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 :
| 1895 Colorado Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Colorado $ 3 –0 –05 –1 –0 Colorado Mines 1 –1 –01 –1 –0 Denver 0 –1 –10 –3 –2 Colorado College 0 –2 –11 –2 –1 $ – Conference champion | 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Vanderbilt 3 –0 –05 –3 –1 Auburn 2 –1 –02 –1 –0 Georgia 2 –2 –03 –4 –0 Sewanee 0 –2 –02 –2 –1 Alabama 0 –2 –00 –4 –0 | 1895 Triangular Football League standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –07 –5 –1 Amherst 1 –1 –06 –5 –0 Williams 0 –2 –04 –5 –0 $ – Conference champion |
| 1895 Western Interstate University Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Missouri + 2 –1 –07 –1 –0 Kansas + 2 –1 –06 –1 –0 Nebraska + 2 –1 –06 –3 –0 Iowa 0 –3 –02 –5 –0 + – Conference co-champions |

### Independents

1895 Eastern college football independents records :
| 1895 Eastern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW 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 Buffalo   –  1 –4 –2 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 NYU   –  0 –5 –0 | 1895 Midwestern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW 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 Baldwin–Wallace   –  3 –1 –0 Notre Dame   –  3 –1 –0 Illinois   –  4 –2 –1 Buchtel   –  3 –2 –0 College of Emporia   –  3 –2 –0 Doane   –  3 –2 –0 Chicago P&S   –  3 –2 –1 Purdue   –  4 –3 –0 Indiana   –  4 –3 –1 Northwestern   –  6 –5 –0 Butler   –  2 –2 –0 Cincinnati   –  3 –3 –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 Haskell   –  1 –2 –0 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 vteConfOverall TeamW L TW 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 Virginia   –  9 –3 –0 Wofford   –  3 –1 –0 Navy   –  5 –2 –0 Ole Miss   –  2 –1 –0 South Carolina   –  2 –1 –0 VAMC   –  4 –2 –0 Tulane   –  3 –2 –0 Tennessee   –  3 –2 –1 Centenary   –  1 –1 –0 Guilford   –  1 –1 –0 Kentucky State College   –  4 –5 –0 North Carolina A&M   –  1 –2 –1 Central (KY)   –  1 –2 –0 Wake Forest   –  0 –0 –1 Marshall   –  0 –1 –1 Delaware   –  1 –3 –0 Columbian   –  0 –1 –1 Richmond   –  0 –5 –1 Catholic University   –  0 –1 –0 Oklahoma   –  0 –1 –0 Furman   –  0 –2 –0 Mississippi A&M   –  0 –2 –0 |
| 1895 Far West college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Occidental   –  5 –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 Utah   –  0 –1 –0 |

### Minor conferences

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