The 1894 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the

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as an independent during the

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. In its first season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 3–0 record. In games against a Laramie town team, the Wilson Beauties, and the No. 5 Hose Company, the team outscored opponents by a total of 46 to 6. For the first of three consecutive years,

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was the team captain. Brees was a native of Laramie who went on to a career in the

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. He retired from the Army in 1941 with the rank of lieutenant general. It was not until 1895 that the team began intercollegiate play.

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