1894 college football season

1894 college football season

1894 Stanford football team

College football seasons « 1893 1895 »

The 1894 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn, Princeton, and Yale as having been selected joint national champions. On November 29, college football was first played in the state of Florida by Stetson University.

Conference and program changes

Conference changes

• Three conferences began play in 1894:
  • Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association – active until 1899
  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – now a Division III conference
  • Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association – active until 1942
• Two conferences played their final seasons in 1894:
  • Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association – founded in 1890
  • Middle States Intercollegiate Football League – founded in 1893

Membership changes

School	1893 Conference	1894 Conference
Arkansas Cardinals	Program Established	Independent
Buffalo football	Program Established	Independent
Idaho football	Program Established	Independent
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays	Independent	MIFA
Maryland Agricultural Terrapins	Independent	MIFA
Oregon Webfoots	Program Established	Independent
Texas A&M Aggies	Program Established	Independent

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1894 CFA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado † 5 – 0 – 0     8 – 1 – 0 Colorado Mines 1 – 2 – 0     1 – 2 – 0 Denver 1 – 3 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 Colorado College 0 – 1 – 0     1 – 2 – 0 Colorado Agricultural 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 † – Conference champion	1894 college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Yale   –       16 – 0 – 0 Penn   –       12 – 0 – 0 Western Reserve   –       7 – 0 – 0 USC   –       1 – 0 – 0 Michigan   –       9 – 1 – 1 Vanderbilt   –       7 – 1 – 0 Harvard   –       11 – 2 – 0 Georgia   –       5 – 1 – 0 Princeton   –       8 – 2 – 0 Virginia   –       8 – 2 – 0 Chicago   –       14 – 7 – 1 Brown   –       10 – 5 – 0 Notre Dame   –       3 – 1 – 1 Alabama   –       3 – 1 – 0 Minnesota   –       3 – 1 – 0 Wisconsin   –       5 – 2 – 0 Beloit   –       6 – 3 – 0 North Carolina   –       6 – 3 – 0 Stanford   –       6 – 3 – 0 LSU   –       2 – 1 – 0 Oregon Agricultural   –       2 – 1 – 0 Cornell   –       6 – 4 – 1 Army   –       3 – 2 – 0 Amherst   –       7 – 5 – 0 Illinois   –       4 – 3 – 0 Trinity (CT)   –       4 – 3 – 0 Tufts   –       6 – 5 – 0 Washington Agricultural   –       1 – 1 – 0 Texas A&M   –       1 – 1 – 0 Washington   –       1 – 1 – 1 Georgetown   –       4 – 5 – 0 California   –       0 – 1 – 2 Oregon   –       1 – 2 – 1 Utah   –       1 – 2 – 0 Lake Forest   –       3 – 4 – 0 Sewanee   –       3 – 4 – 0 Lafayette   –       5 – 6 – 0 Lehigh   –       5 – 9 – 0 Auburn   –       1 – 3 – 0 Williams   –       1 – 3 – 0 MIT   –       1 – 4 – 0 Northwestern   –       1 – 5 – 0 Georgia Tech   –       0 – 3 – 0 Wesleyan   –       0 – 5 – 0	1894 IIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Purdue † 4 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 † – Conference champion
1894 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Maryland 2 – 2 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 † – Conference champion	1894 Triangular Football League standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Dartmouth † 2 – 0 – 0     5 – 4 – 0 † – Conference champion	1894 Western Interstate football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Nebraska 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Missouri 2 – 1 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Kansas 1 – 2 – 0     2 – 3 – 1 Iowa 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 1

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Albion	3–0–0

See also

• 1894 College Football All-America Team