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
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 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 12VanderbiltMissouriRollins Field • Columbia, MOL 0–16[5]

Week Two
DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 19VanderbiltCentral (KY)Richmond, KYW 10–0400[6]
October 19WoffordGeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAW 34–0[7]

Week Three
DateTimeVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 263:30 p. m.North CarolinaGeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 0–61,500[8][9]
October 28North CarolinaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNL 0–122,000[10]
October 29North CarolinaSewaneeHardee Field • Sewanee, TNT 0–0[11]
October 31North CarolinaGeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 6–10350[12]

Week Four
DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 2Cumberland (TN)SewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–6[13]
November 2CentreVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNT 0–0[14]
November 2AlabamaGeorgiaWildwood Park • Columbus, GAUGA 30–6500[15]

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

Week Six
DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 16VirginiaVanderbiltAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 4–6[18]
November 16AlabamaTulaneTulane Athletic Field • New Orleans, LAL 0–221,000[19]
November 18AlabamaLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAL 6–12[20]
November 18SewaneeGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GASEW 22–0[21]

Week Seven
DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 23AuburnAlabamaThe Quad • Tuscaloosa, ALAUB 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
Main article: 1895 College Football All-Southern Team

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 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.
  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.
  9. "North Carolina Won". The Wilmington Morning Star. October 27, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  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.
  18. "Virginia-Vanderbilt Game". The Charlotte Observer. November 17, 1895. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  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.
  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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