The 1895 college football season was the season of

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played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1895–96 academic year. The

1895 Penn Quakers football team The 1895 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach George Washington Woodruff, the Q ...

, led by head coach George Washington Woodruff, compiled a perfect 14–0 record and is recognized as the 1895 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. One selector,

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, recognized both Penn and

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as co-national champions. Yale compiled a 13–0–2 record. In the Midwest,

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led the way with an 8–1 record, the only loss coming in a road game against Harvard. In the South, the

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played its first year of college football with Vanderbilt winning the first conference championship. Ten of the eleven players selected by

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and Caspar Whitney to the 1895 All-America college football team came from Penn, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The eleventh player was quarterback

Clint Wyckoff Clinton Randolph Wyckoff (September 4, 1874 – August 16, 1947) was an American college football player, and the first consensus All-American not from Yale, Harvard, Princeton or Penn. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. ...

from

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. Six of the honorees have been inducted into the

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: Wyckoff, halfbacks Sam Thorne (Yale) and

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(Penn), fullback Charley Brewer (Harvard), end Charles Gelbert (Penn), tackle Langdon Lea (Princeton), and guard Charles Wharton (Penn).

Conference and program changes

Conference standings

Conference standings

Independents

Minor conferences

See also

References