The 1895 Lafayette football team represented

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in the

1895 college football season The 1895 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1895–96 academic year. The 1895 Penn Quakers football team, led by head coach George Washington Woodr ...

. Lafayette finished with a 6–2 record in their first year under head coach Parke H. Davis. Significant games included victories over

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(6–0) and Lehigh (22–12 and 14–6), and losses to

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(0–14) and Penn (0–30). The 1895 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 162 to 62. Lafayette won the 1895 Middle States League championship. No Lafayette players received recognition on the

1895 College Football All-America Team The 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for ''Harper's Weekly'' and the Walter Camp Football Foundatio ...

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References

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