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The 1894 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1894–95 academic year.

The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team compiled a perfect 16–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 485 to 13, and has been recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and National Championship Foundation, and as co-champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Penn also compiled a perfect record (12–0) and was recognized as the co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Despite suffering losses to both Yale and Penn, Princeton was recognized as the national champion under the Houlgate System.

All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp to the 1894 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Princeton, Yale, and Harvard) or Penn. Six of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: halfback George Brooke, end Frank Hinkey (Yale), end Charlie Gelbert, tackle Langdon Lea (Princeton), guard Art Wheeler (Princeton), and guard Bill Hickok (Yale).

New programs established in 1893 included Arkansas, Oregon, and Texas A&M.

On November 29, college football was first played in the state of Florida by Stetson University.[3]

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

Membership changes

School 1893 Conference 1894 Conference
Arkansas Cardinals Program Established Independent
Buffalo football Program Established Independent
Idaho football Program Established Independent
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays Independent MIFA
Maryland Agricultural Terrapins Independent MIFA
Oregon Webfoots Program Established Independent
Texas A&M Aggies Program Established Independent

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1894 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colorado $ 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
Colorado Mines 1 – 2 – 0 1 – 2 – 0
Denver 1 – 3 – 0 1 – 3 – 0
Colorado College 0 – 1 – 0 1 – 2 – 0
Colorado Agricultural 0 – 1 – 0 0 – 1 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1894 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Purdue $ 4 – 0 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Butler 3 – 1 – 0 6 – 1 – 0
Wabash 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Indiana 0 – 4 – 0 0 – 4 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1894 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryland 2 – 2 – 0 4 – 3 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1894 Triangular Football League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 2 – 0 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Williams 1 – 1 – 0 6 – 3 – 1
Amherst 0 – 2 – 0 7 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1894 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Missouri + 2 – 1 – 0 4 – 3 – 0
Nebraska + 2 – 1 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
Kansas 1 – 2 – 0 2 – 3 – 1
Iowa 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 4 – 1
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents

1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Holy Ghost College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0
1894 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Western Reserve   –   7 – 0 – 0
North Dakota Agricultural   –   2 – 0 – 0
Baldwin–Wallace   –   1 – 0 – 0
Buchtel   –   1 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –   9 – 1 – 1
Iowa Agricultural   –   5 – 1 – 0
Notre Dame   –   3 – 1 – 1
Minnesota   –   3 – 1 – 0
Washburn   –   3 – 1 – 0
Wittenberg   –   6 – 2 – 0
Doane   –   5 – 2 – 0
Wisconsin   –   5 – 2 – 0
Chicago   –   14 – 7 – 1
Beloit   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington University   –   2 – 1 – 0
Ohio State   –   6 – 5 – 0
Illinois   –   4 – 3 – 0
Oberlin   –   4 – 3 – 1
Cincinnati   –   3 – 3 – 0
Drake   –   2 – 2 – 0
Mount Union   –   4 – 5 – 0
Lake Forest   –   3 – 4 – 0
Miami (OH)   –   1 – 2 – 0
Ohio Wesleyan   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rush Medical   –   3 – 6 – 0
Northwestern   –   1 – 5 – 0
Ohio   –   0 – 1 – 0
South Dakota   –   0 – 2 – 0
1894 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
VMI   –   6 – 0 – 0
Hampden–Sydney   –   1 – 0 – 0
Tennessee   –   2 – 0 – 2
Vanderbilt   –   7 – 1 – 0
Ole Miss   –   6 – 1 – 0
Texas   –   6 – 1 – 0
Georgia   –   5 – 1 – 0
Kentucky State College   –   5 – 1 – 0
VAMC   –   4 – 1 – 0
Virginia   –   8 – 2 – 0
Centre   –   3 – 1 – 0
Alabama   –   3 – 1 – 0
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 2
North Carolina   –   6 – 3 – 0
Arkansas   –   2 – 1 – 0
LSU   –   2 – 1 – 0
West Virginia   –   2 – 2 – 0
Texas A&M   –   1 – 1 – 0
Delaware   –   1 – 1 – 0
Georgetown   –   4 – 5 – 0
Sewanee   –   3 – 4 – 0
Auburn   –   1 – 3 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 4 – 1
Richmond   –   0 – 4 – 2
Centenary   –   0 – 1 – 0
Trinity (NC)   –   0 – 1 – 0
William & Mary   –   0 – 1 – 0
North Carolina A&M   –   0 – 2 – 0
South Carolina   –   0 – 2 – 0
Georgia Tech   –   0 – 3 – 0
Tulane   –   0 – 4 – 0
1894 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Wyoming   –   3 – 0 – 0
USC   –   1 – 0 – 0
Stanford   –   6 – 3 – 0
Saint Mary's   –   2 – 2 – 0
Washington Agricultural   –   1 – 1 – 0
Washington   –   1 – 1 – 1
Utah   –   1 – 2 – 0
California   –   0 – 1 – 2
New Mexico A&M   –   0 – 1 – 0

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion 3–0–0

Minor independents

1894 Kentucky state football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Kentucky State*   –   5 – 2 – 0
Centre   –   3 – 1 – 0
  • * – State champion

See also

References

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "1892 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "History". Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2014.


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