1895 college football season

American college football season August 2023 1895 File:1895 Penn Quakers (team picture).jpg 1895 Penn Quakers 27 September 7 to November 28 PennsylvaniaYale Not awarded until 1935 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.https://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009FBS.pdf Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book 70 The National Collegiate Athletic Association August 2009 Indianapolis, IN 2009-10-16 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 BlackProgram establishedIndependent Marshall footballProgram establishedIndependent Mississippi A&M AggiesProgram establishedIndependent North Carolina Tar Heels Independent SIAA Oklahoma SoonersProgram establishedIndependent Sewanee Tigers Independent SIAA Tulane Green Wave Independent SIAA Vanderbilt Commodores Independent SIAA Conference standings Conference standings Independents Minor conferences ConferenceChampion(s)Record Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Olivet 3–0 See also 1895 College Football All-America Team References December 1, 1895 Football Reflections — Work of the Big College Teams the Past Season https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-1895-football-season-record-rank/161489489/ The Sun The fact that Yale and Pennsylvania did not play was unfortunate