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1895 Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
CaptainGideon Boericke
Home stadiumMarch Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 2
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1895 college football season. Lafayette finished with a 6–2 record in their first year under head coach Parke H. Davis. Significant games included victories over Cornell (6–0) and Lehigh (22–12 and 14–6), and losses to Princeton (0–14) and Penn (0–30). The 1895 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 162 to 62.[1][2] Lafayette won the 1895 Middle States League championship.[3] No Lafayette players received recognition on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5at Orange Athletic Club
W 12–01,500[4]
October 12at Princeton
L 0–14[5]
October 19at Cornell
W 6–0[6]
October 24Ursinus
W 56–0[7]
October 26at Penn
L 0–308,500[8]
October 30Rutgers
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 52–0500[3]
November 9at Lehigh Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)W 22–12
November 23Lehigh
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 14–6

References

  1. ^ "1895 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Lafayette Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Lafayette Team Wins Easy Game: Defeats Rutgers at Football by a Score of 52 to 0". Chicago Tribune. October 31, 1895. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Lafayette and Orange". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1895. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton, 14; Lafayette, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1895. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Lafayette Beats Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1895. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Lafayette an Easy Winner". The Times (Philadelphia). October 25, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Foot-Ball on Many Fields: The Lafayette-Pennsylvania Game Was a Disappointment". The Times (Philadelphia). October 27, 1895. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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