1894 college football season
1894 college football season | |||||
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Stanford team | |||||
Total # of teams | 27[1] | ||||
Number of bowls | 0 | ||||
Champions |
Penn Quakers Princeton Tigers Yale Bulldogs | ||||
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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.[2] On November 29, college football was first played in the state of Florida by Stetson University.[3]
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 |
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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:
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Minor conferences
Conference | Champion(s) | Record |
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Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Albion | 3–0–0 |
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1894.htm
- ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ↑ "History".
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