1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

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]

1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
LeagueNCAA
SportCollege football
DurationOctober 12, 1895
through November 28, 1895
Number of teams5
Regular Season
Season championsNone
1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Vanderbilt 3 0 0  5 3 1
Auburn 2 1 0  2 1 0
Georgia 2 2 0  3 4 0
Sewanee 0 2 0  2 2 1
Alabama 0 2 0  0 4 0

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 301 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 12VanderbiltMissouriColumbia, MOL 160[5]

Week Two

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 19VanderbiltCentral (KY)Richmond, KYW 100
October 19WoffordGeorgiaHerty FieldAthens, GAW 340

Week Three

DateTimeVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 263:30 p. m.North CarolinaGeorgiaPiedmont ParkAtlanta, GAL 601,500[6][7]
October 28North CarolinaVanderbiltDudley FieldNashville, TNL 120[8]
October 29North CarolinaSewaneeMcGee FieldSewanee, TNT 00
October 31North CarolinaGeorgiaPiedmont ParkAtlanta, GAL 106

Week Four

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 2CumberlandSewaneeMcGee FieldSewanee, TNW 166
November 2CentreVanderbiltDudley FieldNashville, TNT 00
November 2AlabamaGeorgiaWildwood Park • Columbus, GAUGA 306500

Week Five

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 9AuburnVanderbiltDudley FieldNashville, TNVAN 96
November 9NashvilleSewaneeMcGee FieldSewanee, TNW 160

Week Six

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 16VirginiaVanderbiltAtlanta, GAL 64[9]
November 16AlabamaTulaneNew Orleans, LATUL 22–01,000
November 18AlabamaLSUState FieldBaton Rouge, LAL 126
November 18SewaneeGeorgiaPiedmont ParkAtlanta, GASEW 220

Week Seven

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 23AuburnAlabamaThe QuadTuscaloosa, ALAUB 480
November 23GeorgiaVanderbiltDudley FieldNashville, TNVAN 601,200[10]

Week Eight

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 28AuburnGeorgiaPiedmont ParkAtlanta, GAAUB 166
November 28VanderbiltSewaneeMcGee FieldSewanee, TNVAN 186

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

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-07-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Missouri Boys Are All Right". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 13, 1895. p. 10. Retrieved December 15, 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "An Exciting Game". The Daily Tar Heel. November 2, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "North Carolina Won". The Wilmington Morning Star. October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Vanderbilt Game". The Daily Tar Heel. November 8, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved July 28, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Virginia-Vanderbilt Game". The Charlotte Observer. November 17, 1895. p. 1 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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