1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1895 Tennessee Volunteers football
Conference	Independent
1895 record	3–2–1
Head coach	W. B. Stokely (student coach)
Seasons

The 1895 Tennessee Volunteers football team unofficially represented the University of Tennessee in the 1895 college football season. In October 1894, the Athletic Association resolved to drop varsity football and look forward to baseball in the spring. After the humiliating 1893 season with two wins and four imposing defeats, only two athletes willing to admit they had played on the 1893 team returned to campus in 1894. To complicate matters further, the practice field, located just west of the main entrance to the Hill, was being graded and improved.

Soon after this decision, W. B. Stokely, a UT senior who transferred from Wake Forest University, persuaded a group of students to form a team. Stokely, who was elected captain, gave encouragement and direction to the other players. Even though the institution chose not to be represented officially on the gridiron, Stokely and his unofficial team kept football interest alive during this period when almost certainly it otherwise would have been allowed to lapse completely.

These unofficial games, referred to as "The Lost Years" are not included in NCAA statistics or in official University of Tennessee won-lost records.

1895 was the second and final student-coached team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 19, 1895	vs. Knoxville YMCA	Knoxville, TN	W 4–0
November 2, 1895	Maryville College	Knoxville, TN	T 6–6
November 4, 1895	at Bingham School	Asheville, NC	W 12–0
November 14, 1895	at Fort McPherson	Atlanta, GA	L 0–28
November 28, 1895	at Saint Alban's	Bristol, TN	L 0–38
November 30, 1895	Tennessee Medical Unit	Knoxville, TN	W 40–0
All times are in no.

References

2008 Tennessee Football Media Guide