1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League NCAA
Sport College football
Duration October 12, 1895
through November 28, 1895
Number of teams 7
Regular Season
Season champions North Carolina
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

The inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football 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] This began a 6 day, 4 conference game road trip in which North Carolina posted a 3–0–1 record. With this, the Tar Heels were conference champion.

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.

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

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 12 VanderbiltMissouriColumbia, MOL 16–0
October 12North Carolina A&MNorth CarolinaChapel Hill, NCW 36–0

Week Two

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 19VanderbiltCentral (KY)Richmond, KYW 10–0
October 19WoffordGeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAW 34–0

Week Three

Date Time Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 26 TulaneLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAL 8–41,500[4]
October 263:30 p. m.North CarolinaGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GAUNC 6–0 1,500[5][6]
October 28 North CarolinaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNUNC 12–0 [7]
October 29 North CarolinaSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNT 0–0
October 31 North CarolinaGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GA UNC 10–6

Week Four

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 2CumberlandSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–6
November 2North CarolinaWashington & LeeLynchburg, VAW 16–0
November 2CentreVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNT 0–0
November 2AlabamaGeorgiaWildwood Park • Columbus, GAUGA 30–6 500

Week Five

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 9Southern A. C. ReservesTulaneNew Orleans, LAW 12–0
November 9AuburnVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 9–6
November 9 NashvilleSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–0

Week Six

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 16 Virginia TechNorth CarolinaCharlotte, NCW 32–5
November 16VirginiaVanderbiltAtlanta, GAL 6–4 [8]
November 16 Alabama Tulane New Orleans, LA TUL 22–0 1,000
November 18AlabamaLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAL 12–6
November 18SewaneeGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GASEW 22–0
November 19RichmondNorth CarolinaChapel Hill, NCW 34–0

Week Seven

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 23TulaneTexasAustin, TXL 16–0 600[9]
November 23AuburnAlabamaThe Quad • Tuscaloosa, ALAUB 48–0
November 23GeorgiaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 6–01,200 [10]

Week Eight

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 28Ole MissTulaneNew Orleans, LAW 28–4
November 28AuburnGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GAAUB 16–6
November 28VanderbiltSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNVAN 18–6
November 28North CarolinaVirginiaRichmond, VAL 6–0

Awards and honors

All-Southerns

References

  1. ↑ "Tar Heels Credited with Throwing First Forward Pass". Tar Heel Times. tarheeltimes.com. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  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. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Vincent, Herb. "LSU Football Vault, The History of the Fighting Tigers". Whitman Publishing, LLC. Atlanta, GA. 2008. page 9.
  5. ↑ "An Exciting Game". The Daily Tar Heel. November 2, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "North Carolina Won". The Wilmington Morning Star. October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Vanderbilt Game". The Daily Tar Heel. November 8, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Virginia-Vanderbilt Game". The Charlotte Observer. November 17, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Texas Downs Tulane". Galveston Daily News. November 24, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved July 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Looks Like Robbery". Atlanta Constitution. November 24, 1895. p. 15. Retrieved July 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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