1895 Northwestern Purple football team

The 1895 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1895 college football season. In their first year under head coach Jesse Van Doozer, the Purple compiled a 6–5 record.[1][2]

1895 Northwestern Purple football
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record6–5
Head coachAlvin H. Culver (1st season)
CaptainJesse Van Doozer
1895 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Washington University      2 0 0
Michigan      8 1 0
Chicago      10 3 0
Wittenberg      5 2 0
Minnesota      7 3 0
Wisconsin      5 2 1
Wabash      6 3 0
Illinois      4 2 1
Baldwin–Wallace      3 1 0
Notre Dame      3 1 0
Northwestern      6 5 0
Purdue      4 3 0
Indiana      4 3 1
Buchtel      3 2 0
Doane      3 2 0
Butler      2 2 0
Cincinnati      3 3 0
Haskell      1 1 0
Michigan State Normal      3 3 0
North Dakota Agricultural      1 1 0
Ohio State      4 4 2
Iowa Agricultural      3 4 0
Ohio      2 3 0
Rush-Lake Forest      4 6 0
Ohio Wesleyan      2 4 1
Iowa State Normal      1 2 0
Lake Forest      1 2 0
Northwestern Law      1 2 0
Drake      1 4 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 21vs. WisconsinMilwaukeeL 6–12[3]
September 28Iowa AgriculturalEvanston, ILL 0–36[4]
October 3Evanston HighEvanston, ILW 16–0
October 5BeloitEvanston, ILW 34–6
October 12ArmourEvanston, ILW 44–0
October 19at ChicagoW 22–6[5]
October 31Rush-Lake ForestEvanston, ILW 24–0
November 2at Purdue
W 24–6[6]
November 9vs. MissouriSt. LouisL 18–22[7]
November 16ChicagoEvanston, ILL 0–6[8]
November 23at Illinois
  • Athletic Park
  • Champaign, IL (rivalry)
L 4–38[9]
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gollark: I mean that they insist I need cotton shirts (because natural → good somehow?!) and also have to wear ironed clothes?
gollark: Well, they seem to think that I should wear excessively fancy clothes (beyond the somewhat-fancy-clothes requirement of my school dress code) or people will judge me for it somehow?
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References

  1. "1895 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  2. "2017 Northwestern Football Media Guide" (PDF). Northwestern University. p. 106. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  3. "Evanston Loses To Madison". The Inter Ocean. September 22, 1895. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Struck by a Cyclone: It Comes From Iowa and Devastates Evanston Town". Chicago Tribune. September 29, 1895. p. 6 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Was a Terrible Slaughter: Northwestern Defeats Chicago by a Score of 22 to 6". The Inter Ocean. October 20, 1895. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Northwestern Defeats Purdue". Chicago Tribune. November 3, 1895. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Are Beaten by Missouri: Northwestern's Football Players Fall Before the Tigers". Chicago Tribune. November 10, 1895. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Step on the Purple". The Inter Ocean. October 17, 1895. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "State Eleven Wins: Northwestern Beaten by University of Illinois". The Inter Ocean. November 24, 1895. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.


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