1895 Lafayette football team

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.

1895 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
1895 record	6–2
Head coach	Parke H. Davis (1st season)
Captain	Gideon Boericke
Home stadium	March Field

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
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	2
Army			–					5	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					8	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					6	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	6	–	1
Carlisle			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	3
Cornell			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					1	–	4	–	0
Massachusetts			–					1	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	6	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 12–0	1,500	[4]
October 12	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–14		[5]
October 19	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	W 6–0		[6]
October 24	Ursinus	March Field Easton, PA	W 56–0		[7]
October 26	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia	L 0–30	8,500	[8]
October 30	Rutgers	March Field Easton, PA	W 52–0	500	[3]
November 9	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	W 22–12
November 23	Lehigh	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. "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.