1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

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1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League NCAA
Sport College football
DurationOctober 12, 1895
through November 28, 1895
Number of teams5
Regular Season
Season championsNone
Football seasons
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1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
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

The inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1895 college football season. The association's inaugural season began on October 12, 1895. The first conference game was played on October 26 with North Carolina at Georgia, featuring what some claim is the first forward pass. [1] [n 1]

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The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt. [2] The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South". [3]

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (S. I. A. A.) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools. Every member of the current Southeastern Conference except Arkansas and Missouri, as well as six of the 15 current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference plus the University of Texas at Austin, now of the Big 12 Conference (and previously of the now defunct Southwest Conference), formerly held membership in the SIAA.

No conference members claimed a championship. Some publications dubbed North Carolina the SIAA champions for racking up a 3–0–1 road trip against SIAA opponents. [4] Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 12Vanderbilt Missouri Rollins Field • Columbia, MO L 0–16 [5]

Week Two

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 19Vanderbilt Central (KY) Richmond, KY W 10–0400 [6]
October 19 Wofford Georgia Herty Field • Athens, GA W 34–0 [7]

Week Three

DateTimeVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 263:30 p. m. North Carolina GeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GA L 0–61,500 [8] [9]
October 28North CarolinaVanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN L 0–122,000 [10]
October 29North CarolinaSewanee Hardee Field • Sewanee, TN T 0–0 [11]
October 31North CarolinaGeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 6–10350 [12]

Week Four

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 2 Cumberland (TN) SewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–6 [13]
November 2 Centre VanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNT 0–0 [14]
November 2AlabamaGeorgiaWildwood Park • Columbus, GA UGA 30–6500 [15]

Week Five

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 9AuburnVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 9–6 [16]
November 9 Nashville SewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–0 [17]

Week Six

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 16 Virginia VanderbiltAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 4–6 [18]
November 16Alabama Tulane Tulane Athletic Field • New Orleans, LA L 0–221,000 [19]
November 18Alabama LSU State Field • Baton Rouge, LA L 6–12 [20]
November 18SewaneeGeorgia Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GASEW 22–0 [21]

Week Seven

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 23AuburnAlabama The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL AUB 48–0 [22]
November 23GeorgiaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 6–01,200 [23]

Week Eight

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 28AuburnGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GAAUB 16–6 [24]
November 28VanderbiltSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNVAN 18–6 [25]

Awards and honors

All-Southerns

Notes

  1. ↑ This began a 6 day, 4 conference game road trip in which North Carolina posted a 3–0–1 record

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References

  1. ↑ "Tar Heels Credited with Throwing First Forward Pass". Tar Heel Times. tarheeltimes.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ Greg Roza, Football in the SEC (Southeastern Conference), p. 1, 2007, ISBN   1-4042-1919-6.
  3. ↑ Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association (PDF). Athens, GA: E. D. Stone. 1895. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Conference Champions". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Missouri Boys Are All Right". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 13, 1895. p. 10. Retrieved December 15, 2016– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  6. ↑ "Vanderbilt 10, Central University 0". The Courier-Journal. October 20, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Georgia boys win, the Woffords, of South Carolina, were not in it at any time". The Atlanta Constitution. October 20, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "An Exciting Game". The Daily Tar Heel. November 2, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  9. ↑ "North Carolina Won". The Wilmington Morning Star. October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  10. ↑ "Butler makes a magnificent run". The Chicago Tribune. October 29, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "It was a tie game, Sewanee and the University of North Carolina fail to score". The Atlanta Constitution. October 30, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Carolina won out, the score was 10 to 6 against the Georgia boys". The Atlanta Constitution. November 1, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Sewanee 16, Cumberland University 6". The Times-Democrat. November 3, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Vanderbilt 0, Center College 0". The Times-Democrat. November 3, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Athens 30, Tuscaloosa 6". The Atlanta Constitution. November 10, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Vanderbilt wins in muddy field". The Chicago Tribune. November 10, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Victory for Sewanee". The Times-Picayune. November 10, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
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  19. ↑ "Tulane wins the game; Alabama beaten by a score of 22 to 0". The Times-Democrat. November 17, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Football game at Baton Rouge: The Alabamians defeated by the Louisiana team". The Daily Picayune. NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers. November 19, 1895. p. 8.
  21. ↑ "Georgia giants, the Royal Purple goes down before the Black and Red". The Atlanta Constitution. November 19, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  22. ↑ "Auburn had things their own way at Tuscaloosa". The Montgomery Advertiser. November 24, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  23. ↑ "Looks Like Robbery". Atlanta Constitution. November 24, 1895. p. 15. Retrieved July 28, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  24. ↑ "Auburn wins at Atlanta, the Georgia boys beaten by a score of 16 to 6". The Morning News. November 29, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
  25. ↑ "Vanderbilt defeats Sewanee". The Times-Democrat. November 29, 1895. Retrieved April 27, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
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