Year: | 1895 |
Team: | Wyoming Cowboys |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 1–0 |
Head Coach: | Justus F. Soule |
Hc Year: | 2nd |
Captain: | Herbert J. Brees |
The 1895 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its second season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 1–0 record. In the program's first intercollegiate football game, the team defeated from Greeley, Colorado, by a 34–0 score.[1]
For the second of three consecutive years, Herbert J. Brees was the team captain. Brees was a native of Laramie who went on to a career in the United States Army. He retired from the Army in 1941 with the rank of lieutenant general.[2]