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.
The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt.Greg Roza, Football in the SEC (Southeastern Conference), p. 1, 2007, . The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South".
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. Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.
Regular season Index to colors and formattingNon-conference matchup; SIAA member wonNon-conference matchup; SIAA member lostNon-conference matchup; tieConference matchup SIAA teams in bold.
Week One Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference October 12 VanderbiltMissouriRollins Field • Columbia, MOL 0–16
Week Two Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference October 19VanderbiltCentral (KY)Richmond, KYW 10–0 400October 19GeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAW 34–0
Week Three Date Time Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceOctober 263:30 p. m.North CarolinaGeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 0–6 1,500 October 28 North CarolinaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNL 0–12 2,000October 29 North CarolinaSewaneeHardee Field • Sewanee, TNT 0–0 October 31 North CarolinaGeorgiaAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 6–10350
Week Four Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceNovember 2SewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–6 November 2CentreVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNT 0–0 November 2AlabamaGeorgiaWildwood Park • Columbus, GAUGA 30–6500
Week Five Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceNovember 9AuburnVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 9–6 November 9 SewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 16–0
Week Six Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceNovember 16VirginiaVanderbiltAthletic Park • Atlanta, GAL 4–6 November 16AlabamaTulaneTulane Athletic Field • New Orleans, LAL 0–221,000November 18AlabamaLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAL 6–12 November 18SewaneeGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GASEW 22–0
Week Seven Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceNovember 23AuburnAlabamaThe Quad • Tuscaloosa, ALAUB 48–0 November 23GeorgiaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 6–01,200
Week Eight Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance ReferenceNovember 28AuburnGeorgiaPiedmont Park • Atlanta, GAAUB 16–6 November 28VanderbiltSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNVAN 18–6
Awards and honors
All-Southerns
HB, sub - Phil Connell Vanderbilt
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