The 1895 Auburn Tigers football team represented
Auburn University (then known as Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) in the
. It was the Tigers' fourth overall season and they competed as a member of the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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(SIAA). The team was led by head coach
John Heisman
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, in his first year and finished with a record of two wins and one loss (2–1).
Schedule
Trick play
The team executed a "hidden ball trick" in the game against
Vanderbilt as Auburn seemed to run a revolving wedge. Vanderbilt still won however, 9 to 6; the first time in the history of southern football that a field goal decided a game.
"Billy" Williams recalled:
Quarterback Reynolds Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows:
[
The Tigers again used the play against ]Georgia
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. Georgia coach Pop Warner
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later used the trick in 1897 while at Cornell
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against Penn State #Redirect Pennsylvania State University
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; and again and most famously in 1903 while at Carlisle
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against Harvard, attracting national attention in a close loss.
References
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