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
League	NCAA
Sport	College football
Duration	October 12, 1895 through November 28, 1895
Number of teams	5
Regular Season
Season champions	None

1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		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 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

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 12	Vanderbilt	Missouri	Columbia, MO	L 16–0		[5]

Week Two

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 19	Vanderbilt	Central (KY)	Richmond, KY	W 10–0
October 19	Wofford	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	W 34–0

Week Three

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 26	3:30 p. m.	North Carolina	Georgia	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	L 6–0	1,500	[6][7]
October 28		North Carolina	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	L 12–0		[8]
October 29		North Carolina	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	T 0–0
October 31		North Carolina	Georgia	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	L 10–6

Week Four

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 2	Cumberland	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 16–6
November 2	Centre	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	T 0–0
November 2	Alabama	Georgia	Wildwood Park • Columbus, GA	UGA 30–6	500

Week Five

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 9	Auburn	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 9–6
November 9	Nashville	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 16–0

Week Six

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 16	Virginia	Vanderbilt	Atlanta, GA	L 6–4		[9]
November 16	Alabama	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	TUL 22–0	1,000
November 18	Alabama	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	L 12–6
November 18	Sewanee	Georgia	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	SEW 22–0

Week Seven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 23	Auburn	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	AUB 48–0
November 23	Georgia	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 6–0	1,200	[10]

Week Eight

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 28	Auburn	Georgia	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	AUB 16–6
November 28	Vanderbilt	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	VAN 18–6

Awards and honors

All-Southerns

• HB, sub - Phil Connell Vanderbilt

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.