| 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season | |
| Sport: | College football |
| League: | NCAA |
| Season: | Regular Season |
| Season Champs: | None |
| No Of Teams: | 5 |
| Duration: | October 12, 1895 through November 28, 1895 |
| Seasonslistnames: | Football |
| Nextseason Year: | 1896 |
The inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1895 college football season. The association's inaugural season began on October 12, 1895. The first conference game was played on October 26 with North Carolina at Georgia, featuring what some claim is the first forward pass.[1]
The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt.[2] The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South".[3]
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (S. I. A. A.) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools. Every member of the current Southeastern Conference except Arkansas and Missouri, as well as six of the 15 current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference plus the University of Texas at Austin, now of the Big 12 Conference (and previously of the now defunct Southwest Conference), formerly held membership in the SIAA.
No conference members claimed a championship. Some publications dubbed North Carolina the SIAA champions for racking up a 3 - 0 - 1 road trip against SIAA opponents.[4] Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.
| Index to colors and formatting | |
|---|---|
| Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won | |
| Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost | |
| Non-conference matchup; tie | |
| Conference matchup |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 19 | Vanderbilt | Central (KY) | Richmond, KY | W 10–0 | 400 | [6] | |
| October 19 | Georgia | Herty Field • Athens, GA | W 34–0 | [7] |
| Date | Time | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 26 | 3:30 p. m. | North Carolina | Georgia | Athletic Park • Atlanta, GA | L 0–6 | 1,500 | [8] [9] | |
| October 28 | North Carolina | Vanderbilt | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | L 0–12 | 2,000 | [10] | ||
| October 29 | North Carolina | Sewanee | Hardee Field • Sewanee, TN | T 0–0 | [11] | |||
| October 31 | North Carolina | Georgia | Athletic Park • Atlanta, GA | L 6–10 | 350 | [12] |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2 | Sewanee | McGee Field • Sewanee, TN | W 16–6 | [13] | |||
| November 2 | Centre | Vanderbilt | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | T 0–0 | [14] | ||
| November 2 | Alabama | Georgia | Wildwood Park • Columbus, GA | UGA 30–6 | 500 | [15] |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 9 | Auburn | Vanderbilt | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | VAN 9–6 | [16] | ||
| November 9 | Sewanee | McGee Field • Sewanee, TN | W 16–0 | [17] |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 16 | Virginia | Vanderbilt | Athletic Park • Atlanta, GA | L 4–6 | [18] | ||
| November 16 | Alabama | Tulane | Tulane Athletic Field • New Orleans, LA | L 0–22 | 1,000 | [19] | |
| November 18 | Alabama | LSU | State Field • Baton Rouge, LA | L 6–12 | [20] | ||
| November 18 | Sewanee | Georgia | Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA | SEW 22–0 | [21] |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 23 | Auburn | Alabama | The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL | AUB 48–0 | [22] | ||
| November 23 | Georgia | Vanderbilt | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | VAN 6–0 | 1,200 | [23] |
| Date | Visiting team | Home team | Site | Result | Attendance | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 28 | Auburn | Georgia | Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA | AUB 16–6 | [24] | ||
| November 28 | Vanderbilt | Sewanee | McGee Field • Sewanee, TN | VAN 18–6 | [25] |
See main article: 1895 College Football All-Southern Team.