Year: | 1895 |
Team: | Iowa Agricultural Cyclones |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 3–4 |
Head Coach: | Pop Warner |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Captain: | Ed Mellinger |
Prev: | 1894 |
The 1895 Iowa Agricultural Cyclones football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The Cyclones compiled a 3–4 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 82 to 70.[1] [2] Ed Mellinger was the team captain.[2]
While Pop Warner is listed as the team's head coach,[2] The Des Moines Register reported that he only worked with the team before the season started, and "it is believed he only saw the team play once" during the five-year period he was listed as the coach.[3] Ira C. Brownlie, who founded the Iowa Agricultural football program in 1892, later recalled: "In 1895 the great Pop Warner came out to Ames to coach. He would remain with us from July to October 1. . . . He was at Ames for five years that way."[4]
Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.[5]