1895
1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1895th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 895th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th  year of the 19th century, and the  6th   year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1895, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.


1895 (1995 film)
1895 is a 1995 Estonian animated film directed by Priit Pärn and Janno Põldma.


1895 (1995 film)
The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of cinema. The film speaks about brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, presenting new facts and events.


1895 (2008 film)
Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa 1895, known simply as 1895 (Chinese: 1895乙未), is a Taiwanese Hakka film based on the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan in 1895, with emphasis on the Hakka fighters and their families in the conflict. The film has a limited budget of NT$60 million with roughly half of it provided by the Council for Hakka Affairs of the Executive Yuan. The film was released on November 7, 2008, and was the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in that year.


1895 (2008 film), Reception
The film won the Best Drama Series award in the Asian Television Awards in 2009. A review published in the Taipei Times stated that the film "educational at best" and geared toward students and teachers of history.


1895 AHAC season
The 1895 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada season lasted from January 3 until March 8. Each team played 8 games, and Montreal Victorias were first with a 6–2–0 record. After a required Stanley Cup challenge played between the 1894 winners, Montreal HC and Queen's, champion of the Ontario Hockey Association, the Victorias inherited the Stanley Cup as league champions.


1895 AHAC season, Regular season, Highlights
The Crystals suffered three straight defeats to open the season. After this, they decided independently to merge with the Montreal Shamrocks. On February 2, this new team defeated Quebec 2–1. The game was protested by Quebec and the result was cancelled and not replayed.


1895 AHAC season, Regular season, Highlights
Another game involving Quebec was noteworthy, on February 23 against Ottawa, won by Ottawa 3–2. The game, played at Quebec, was very rough and the crowd became hostile towards the visitors. At the end of the match, the crowd pursued referee Hamilton and Umpire Findlay as they left the arena, and dragged them back to force them to declare the game a draw. Police were called to break up the demonstration. Subsequent to the match, the AHAC decided to suspend the Quebec hockey club for the rest of the season.


1895 AHAC season, Schedule and results
† Game void following protest by Quebec over Crystals use of ineligible players.


1895 AHAC season, Schedule and results
†† Quebec team suspended after attack on officials after game of February 23.


1895 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages
Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average


1895 AHAC season, Player statistics, Goaltending averages
Note: Although A. Mcdougall is recorded in most hockey sources as to playing goal for the Montreal Victorias on January 12, 1895, and allowing one goal only, primary sourcing can show that Hartland MacDougall actually played goal for the Vics between January 12 and January 26  before being replaced by Robert Jones.


1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Montreal vs. Queen's
On March 8, 1895, the Montreal Victorias won the 1895 AHAC title, finishing the season with a 6–2 record. Under the Stanley Cup rules, the team would also be awarded the Stanley Cup as league champions. However, the trustees ruled that a challenge between the previous year's champion Montreal HC and the squad from Queen's University, the champions of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), would have to be played first to determine if the Cup remained with the AHAC. Thus, it was decided that if the Montreal HC won the challenge match, the Victorias would become the Stanley Cup champions. The Montreal HC would eventually win the game, 5–1, and their crosstown rivals were crowned the champions.


1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup challenges, Montreal vs. Queen's
Billy Barlow, the star player of Montreal was not able to play and Clarence McKerrow took his place. McKerrow had not played any games for Montreal, and could be considered a ringer, but there was no protest from Queen's. The Queen's team, although described as looking fast in their tiger jerseys, were no match for Montreal and the game proved uninteresting. R. McLennan of Queen's would later play for Dawson City in its 1905 challenge of Ottawa.


1895 AHAC season, Stanley Cup Engravings
While the Montreal Hockey Club won its challenge 5–1, it was not presented with the Stanley Cup.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team
The 1895 Alabama Crimson White football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was led by head coach Eli Abbott, in his third season, and played their home games at The Quad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In what was the fourth season of Alabama football, the team finished with a record of zero wins and four losses (0–4). The 1895 squad also was the first to compete in a conference, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team
After a one-loss season in 1894, Abbott returned as head coach and led the 1895 squad. Alabama opened the season with a loss at Columbus against Georgia. The Crimson White next lost a pair of games in Louisiana over a span of just three days. After a loss to Tulane at New Orleans, Alabama was defeated by LSU in the first all-time game between the schools. They then closed the year with a 48–0 loss to Auburn in the first Iron Bowl ever played at Tuscaloosa.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Georgia
In what was the first ever game played in the state of Georgia, in their first all-time game against the University of Georgia, Alabama lost 30–6 before 500 fans in Columbus. Alabama took their only lead of the game early after Borden Burr scored a touchdown following a blocked punt. C. S. Pelham then kicked the PAT and Alabama led, 6–0. From that point, Georgia scored 30 unanswered points with touchdowns by Edgar Pomeroy, Rufus Nally and Craig Barrow in the first half; and touchdowns by Pomeroy and Fred Price in the second half for their 30–6 victory.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Tulane
After they defeated Tulane in their first matchup in 1894, Alabama was shut out 22–0 before 1,000 fans in New Orleans. A. K. Foote scored both of Tulane's first-half touchdowns to give them an 8–0 halftime lead. Tulane extended their lead in the second half with two touchdowns by Warren Johnson and one by S. S. Rubira on a 50-yard run in their 22–0 win.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, LSU
Two days after their loss against Tulane, Alabama lost, 12–6, to long-time rival LSU at Baton Rouge in their first all-time meeting against the two schools. After a scoreless first half, Alabama took a 6–0 lead on their first drive of the second half on a T. W. Powers touchdown run. However, LSU scored twelve unanswered points on a pair of Sam Lambert touchdowns that gave them the 12–6 victory. This game was originally scheduled to be played on Friday, November 15, but was rescheduled for the Monday that followed due to a train delay as they traveled from Tuscaloosa across the Mississippi Valley.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Game summaries, Auburn
In the first all-time Iron Bowl played in Tuscaloosa, Alabama was defeated by the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Alabama (now known as Auburn University), 48–0. The 48-point margin of victory still stands tied with the 1900 Iron Bowl as the largest for Auburn in the Iron Bowl.


1895 Alabama Crimson White football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1895 football team according to the roster published in the 1896 edition of The Corolla, the University of Alabama yearbook.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the ninth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Tipperary were the champions.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the eighth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
As counties were represented in that era by their champion clubs, Tipperary was represented by Arravale Rovers while Pierce O'Mahony's club from Navan played for Meath. Tipp won, with all four of its points scored by Willie Ryan. The referee later admitted that he should have not awarded one of Tipperary's points, but Meath sportingly did not ask for a replay.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
It was Tipperary's second All-Ireland football title following success in 1889.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1895 was the ninth series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Kilkenny 6-8 to 1-10 in the final.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format
Final: (1 match) The two provincial representatives make up the two final teams with the winners being declared All-Ireland champions.


1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 8th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1895 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Jones' Road, Dublin, on 15 March 1896 between Kilkenny, represented by club side Tullaroan, and Tipperary, represented by club side Tubberadora. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 6-8 to 1-10.


1895 America's Cup
The 1895 America's Cup occurred just two years after the 1893 America's Cup  pitting the New York Yacht Club against the Royal Yacht Squadron. The 1895 race was between the Herreshoff designed sloop Defender owned by Charles Oliver Iselin, William Kissam Vanderbilt, and Edwin Dennison Morgan from the New York Yacht Club, and the Watson designed Valkyrie III owned by Lord Dunraven of the Royal Yacht Squadron.


1895 America's Cup, The races, First race
The first race, on September 7, 1895, was set to be a windward-leeward course of fifteen miles length. The Weather for the day was described as light and shifting wind. In the first leg of the course the racing was close with Defender taking a slight lead by the windward mark. After rounding the mark the wind shifted, turning the running leg into a reaching leg, as a result Defender quickly increased its lead against Valkyrie III. Defender crossed the line eight minutes and forty-nine seconds ahead of "Valkyrie III" to win the first race.


1895 America's Cup, The races, Second race
The second race occurred on Tuesday September 10, 1895. The race was set as a triangle course with each leg having a length of ten miles. In the pre-start maneuvering, Valkyrie III's boom struck Defender, severing the starboard spreader. Valkyrie III led throughout the race, although Defender closed the gap between the boats in the second and third legs of the race. Valkyrie III crossed the line forty-seven seconds before Defender. However, after hearing the protest from Defender against Valkyrie III, the Race Committee awarded Defender the race as it ruled Defender had right of way over Valkyrie III as Defender was leeward of Valkyrie III at the time of collision.


1895 America's Cup, The races, Third race
The third race was sailed on Thursday September 12, 1895. After both Defender and Valkyrie III crossed the starting line sailing before the wind, Valkyrie III withdrew from the race claiming the committee could not guarantee a course that was free of spectator craft. Defender completed the race, winning the best of five regatta.


1895 Argentine Primera División
The 1895 Primera División was the 4th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 10 and ended on August 30.


1895 Argentine Primera División
Lomas won the tournament achieving its 3rd consecutive title. The runner-up was Lomas Academy, a second team from the same institution. This was the last tournament played by Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway before merging with Belgrano Athletic Club.


1895 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team
The 1895 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1895 college football season. During the 1895 season, Arkansas Industrial played no intercollegiate football games. Its only game was against Fort Smith High School, resulting in a 30–0 victory for Arkansas.


1895 Armenian reforms
The Armenian Reform Program of May 11, 1895, was a set of reforms proposed by the European Powers. The program was signed in October 1895 and presented to Sultan Abdul Hamid II. However, this program was never implemented.


1895 Army Cadets football team
The 1895 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1895 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Harmon S. Graves, the Cadets compiled a 5–2 record, shut out five of their seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 141 to 32. The Army–Navy Game was not played in 1895. On November 2, 1895, Army lost to Yale by a 28 to 8 score in what one press account called the greatest and most exciting game of football ever played on the West Point grounds."


1895 Army Cadets football team
No Army Cadets were honored on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.


1895 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1895 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1895. The season was a fairly inactive one, with 6 storms forming, only 2 of which became hurricanes.


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
The first storm formed on August 14 and lasted until August 17. It formed in the Gulf of Mexico and moved north, making landfall in Alabama. Its maximum sustained winds were at 60 mph (97 km/h).


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two
The second storm formed on August 22 and lasted until August 29. It formed directly to the east of the Lesser Antilles and scraped the Yucatán Peninsula but did not hit it, and made landfall in the southernmost part of Texas. Its maximum sustained winds were at 110 mph (180 km/h).


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Three
The third storm formed on September 28 and lasted until October 7. It formed right on the east of the Yucatán Peninsula. It hit the Yucatán then curved over and under Florida, then went through the Bahamas. Its maximum sustained winds were at 55 mph (89 km/h). This storm was responsible for an estimated 56 deaths.


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four
The fourth tropical storm probably formed on October 2 in the western Caribbean Sea. It apparently crossed the Yucatán Peninsula on October 4, just a few days after Three struck the same area. It peaked as a minimal tropical storm with wind of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). This cyclone moved into Texas and Louisiana on October 7, producing breezy conditions and some rain.


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
The fifth storm formed on October 12 and lasted until October 26. It formed to the east of the southern Lesser Antilles and Windward Islands as a tropical storm. After passing through the Windwards, it reached hurricane status and eventually strengthened to a Category 2 as it moved westward through the southern Caribbean Sea. Reaching its peak of 105 mph (169 km/h), the storm then curved northward and eventually northeast, hitting Cuba and the Bahamas before moving out to sea. Some lives were reportedly lost in Cuba.


1895 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Six
The final storm formed on October 13 and lasted until October 17. The storm was fairly short-lived and mostly maintained its peak intensity as a minimal 40 mph (64 km/h) tropical storm, forming in the Bay of Campeche and curving east-northeast past the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula and making landfall in southwest Florida. It weakened to a depression after moving inland and crossing the southern half of the state, finally dissipating off the southeast Florida coast near the Bahamas.


1895 Auburn Tigers football team
The 1895 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University (then known as Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) in the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers' fourth overall season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach John Heisman, in his first year and finished with a record of two wins and one loss (2–1).


1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play
The team executed a "hidden ball trick" in the game against Vanderbilt as Auburn seemed to run a revolving wedge. Vanderbilt still won however, 9 to 6; the first time in the history of southern football that a field goal decided a game. "Billy" Williams recalled:


1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play
I was playing left half for Auburn and Tichenor was quarterback. We were on Vandy's 15-yard line and had the ball in our possession. Tich passed the ball to me; I raised his jersey and hid the ball under it, at the same time dashing toward our right end, protected by several members of the Auburn team...Vandy thought I had the ball. Tich journeyed around his own left and went over the Vanderbilt's goal line. The first time the Vandy players knew Tich had the ball and had made a touchdown was when they saw him pulling the ball from under his jersey.


1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play
Quarterback Reynolds Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows:


1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play
"The play was simply this. When the ball was snapped it went to a halfback. The play was closely massed and well screened. The halfback then thrust the ball under the back of my jersey. Then he would crash into the line. After the play I simply trotted away to a touchdown.


1895 Auburn Tigers football team, Trick play
The Tigers again used the play against Georgia. Georgia coach Pop Warner later used the trick in 1897 while at Cornell against Penn State; and again and most famously in 1903 while at Carlisle against Harvard, attracting national attention in a close loss.


1895 Baltimore Orioles season
The 1895 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. The Orioles finished first in the National League, winning their second straight pennant. However, for the second straight year, they failed to win the Temple Cup, losing to the second-place Cleveland Spiders 4 games to 1.


1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Birthday Honours
The 1895 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published in The Times on 25 May 1895 and in The London Gazette on 25 May 1895 and on 11 June 1895.


1895 Birthday Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1895 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Privy Councillor
The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:


1895 Boorowa colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of Boorowa in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 24 January 1895 because Thomas Slattery (Protectionist) resigned to concentrate on his legal practice.


1895 Boston Beaneaters season
The 1895 Boston Beaneaters season was the 25th season of the franchise.


1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Boston Beaneaters season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Boston College football team
The 1895 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1895 college football season.


1895 Boston mayoral election
The Boston mayoral election of 1895 occurred on Tuesday, December 10, 1895. Democratic candidate Josiah Quincy defeated Republican candidate and incumbent Mayor of Boston Edwin Upton Curtis, and one other contender, to win election to his first term.


1895 Boston mayoral election
Due to a change of the city charter in June 1895, this was the first Boston mayoral election for a two-year term; prior mayoral elections had been held annually.


1895 Boston mayoral election
Quincy was inaugurated on Monday, January 6, 1896. His grandfather Josiah Quincy IV (known as Josiah Quincy Jr.) and great-grandfather Josiah Quincy III also had served as Mayors of Boston.


1895 Bowral colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of Bowral in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 June 1895 because William McCourt (Free Trade) was forced to resign because he was bankrupt, but was re-elected unopposed.


1895 Brooklyn Grooms season
The 1895 Brooklyn Grooms finished the season in fifth place in the National League.


1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts; CG = Complete games


1895 Brooklyn Grooms season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Brown Bears football team
The 1895 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1895 college football season. The team's coach was Wallace Moyle.


1895 Buchtel football team
The 1895 Buchtel football team represented Buchtel College in the 1895 college football season. The team did not have a coach; their captain was Frank Rockwell.


1895 Calgary municipal election
The 1895 Calgary municipal election was scheduled for December 9, 1895 to elect a Mayor and nine Councillors to sit on the twelfth Calgary City Council from January 6, 1896 to January 4, 1897.


1895 Calgary municipal election, Background
Voting rights were provided to any male, single woman, or widowed British subject over twenty-one years of age who are assessed on the last revised assessment roll with a minimum property value of $200.


1895 Calgary municipal election, Background
The election was held under multiple non-transferable vote where each elector was able to cast a ballot for the mayor and up to three ballots for separate councillors.


1895 California Golden Bears football team
The 1895 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1895 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Frank Butterworth and compiled a record of 3–1–1.


1895 Canterbury colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of Canterbury in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 June 1895 because Varney Parkes (Free Trade) was forced to resign because he was bankrupt, but was re-elected unopposed.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election
The third election to the Cardiganshire County Council took place in March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Overview of the Result
The Liberals were again returned with a large majority. There were a large number of unopposed returns.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen
The following aldermen, all of whom were Liberals, retired at the election.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Retiring Aldermen
Only C.M. Williams in Aberystwyth and David Lloyd in Aberbanc sought election. Levi James (Cardigan), William Davies (New Quay), J.T. Morgan (Talybont) and David Jenkins, Glandovey (elected from outside the Council) all stood down and did not seek re-election. John Davies, Tanycoed and John Owen, Blaenpennal, who had filled aldermanic vacancies since 1889 did likewise. All those who stood down retired from county politics apart from J.T. Morgan who was re-elected as an alderman despite not facing the electorate.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections
There were fewer contested elections than on the previous two occasions as the politics of the county seems to settle down after the initial contests. In Aberystwyth it was said that the Town Council elections the previous November had elicited much greater interest.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections
Those seats that were contested witnessed a swing towards the Conservative candidates, who captured a total of seven seats. These included significant victories at Cardigan and Llandysul. The contest in Bow Street could also be regarded as a Conservative gain.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Contested Elections
It was said that a plough belonging to a farmer in Borth was destroyed due to his support for the Conservative candidate.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, The New Council
The Liberals once again had a comfortable majority. Morgan Evans of Llanarth was elected chairman for 1895/96.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberarth
Two Liberals faced each other although the sitting member was described as a Conservative in some quarters.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberbanc
Dr David Lloyd, whose aldermanic term had come to an end, was elected unopposed in place of Evan Davies.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Aberystwyth Division 2
The sitting member was returned unopposed after E.V. Wynne, chemist, withdrew.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Cwmrheidol
Nicholas Bray regained the seat he lost in 1892 after winning the initial election in 1889.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Felinfach
This ward was now commonly described as Felinfach rather than Llanfihangel Ystrad.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Lampeter Borough
Harford, elected in a close contest in 1889, did not initially seek re-election in 1892, but was returned unopposed after David Lloyd was made an alderman.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llanddewi Brefi
David Davies had lost his seat at the previous election in 1892 and narrowly lost the by-election following the successful candidate's election as alderman.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llandysul South
The sitting member, Enoch Davies, was returned for the neighbouring Penbryn Ward, leading to the loss of this ward to the Conservatives.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Llangeitho
Robert J. Davies of Cwrt Mawr had died shortly after the 1892 election.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Nantcwnlle
Having captured the seat in 1892, Jenkin Howells held on by a mere three votes over David Jones of Station Road, Lampeter.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Taliesin
John Jones, elected unopposed in 1892, was returned by a small majority over another Liberal


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Trefeurig
This was the first time Llewelyn Edwards had won a contested election, having been defeated at Llanbadarn Fawr in 1889 and 1892. On the former occasion he was made an alderman despite his defeat and on the latter elected unopposed for Trefeurig following Peter Jones's elevation to the aldermanic bench.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Results, Tregaron
D.J. Williams had previously represented Tregaron as a Liberal Unionist from a by-election in 1889 until 1892 when he did not stand. He was elected for Llanddewi Brefi at a by-election in 1892


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen
The overhaul of the aldermanic bench saw the election of key figures from the liberal ranks. Having avoided the principle of electing from outside the Council four years previously this practice was now adopted once again, leading to criticism, most notably from the Liberal-supporting Cambrian News. It was noted in particular that  three defeated candidates were elected, namely James Stevens at Cardigan, Daniel Jones of Llanon and Davies of Cwrtmawr. J.T. Morgan of Talybont was also re-elected although he had not contested the election.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1895-1901
Daniel Jones died a few months after the election. In August 1895, James James of Ffynonhowell, from outside of the Council, was appointed to succeed him.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1895-1901
Therefore, the following appointment was made for the remainder of the six-year term.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Aberystwyth Division 4 by-election
The Liberals comfortably retained the seat although the Aberystwyth Observer complained that the Conservatives 'made no special effort' to support their candidate.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Llanarth by-election
Following the appointment of Morgan Evans as alderman, James Evans of Esgerwenfawr was selected as a candidate by the local Liberals, and was returned unopposed.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Llanwnen by-election
The Liberals narrowly held the seat following the election of T.H.R. Hughes as alderman.


1895 Cardiganshire County Council election, By-elections, Penbryn by-election
Following the appointment of Dr Enoch Davies as alderman, the previous member, Peter R. Beynon won the by-election.


1895 Carlisle Indians football team
The 1895 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indians football team of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School during the 1895 college football season. The Indians were coached by Vance C. McCormick in his 2nd year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 4–4.


1895 Carlton Football Club season
The 1895 VFA season was the 19th season in the Victorian Football Association to be contested by the Carlton Football Club. The club finished eleventh out of thirteen teams, with a record of 5–11–2 from eighteen matches.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The 1895 VFA season was the 19th season of the VFA competition since its inception in 1877; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 19th season contested by the Carlton Football Club.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
Carlton's primary home ground in 1895 was the University Cricket Ground, within the grounds of the University of Melbourne in Carlton; but, home matches were also moved to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Jolimont and Victoria Park in Abbotsford.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
Mr F. B. Bromby took over the role as president of the football club in 1895. Bromby replaced Mr A. Gillespie, who had served in the role since 1886. Bromby spent only one season as president, before being replaced by Mr A. H. Shaw in 1896. Tom Blake took the role of club captain, taking over from Peter Williams.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Non-premiership matches
Carlton's played four non-premiership matches in 1895, including matches against junior clubs. Three were played in the pre-season, and one was played on the same weekend as Round 1 of the premiership seasons, during which Carlton had a bye. The number of players fielded by the junior clubs, if different to twenty, is indicated in parentheses.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Premiership season
Carlton won five matches and drew two out of its eighteen games to finish 11th out of 13 for the season. All matches were played at 3pm.


1895 Carlton Football Club season, Ladder
The Association had no formal tie-breakers in cases where clubs were equal on premiership points.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election
The third election to the Carmarthenshire County Council was held in March 1895. It was preceded by the 1892 election and followed by the 1898 election.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Contested elections
There were a large number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results
This section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. This was the inaugural county election and therefore no comparison can be made with the previous elections. In some cases there is an ambiguity in the sources over the party affiliations and this is explained below where relevant.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Summary of results
This table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 48 councillors were elected.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward results, Llanelly Division.1
Wilson had been elected as an Independent in 1892, defeating Gwilym Evans


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Ward results, Pembrey North
Buckley, the prospective Unionist candidate for West Carmarthenshire, had been returned as an Independent Liberal in 1892.


1895 Carmarthenshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen
An unsuccessful attempt was made to select aldermen from among sitting members only.


1895 Centenary Gentlemen football team
The 1895 Centenary Gentlemen football team was an American football team that represented the Centenary College of Louisiana as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In their second year while located at the Jackson, Louisiana campus, the team compiled a 1–1 record.


1895 Central Colonels football team
The 1895 Central Colonels football team represented Central University in Richmond, Kentucky during the 1895 college football season.


1895 Centre football team
The 1895 Centre football team represented Centre College in the 1895 college football season. The head coach was Richard Lowndes, coaching his first season with the Praying Colonels.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team
The 1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team represented the Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) during the 1895 college football season Under the management of Harry Cornish the AAs athletic manager since 1893 the CAA went 9–3–1 against its opponents along with another exhibition win over the Swift & Co Stock Yarders at the beginning of the season the CAA outscored its opponents 214 to 52 and had an undefeated record at home CAA played its home games at CAA Field located on the corner of 35th Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, August
August 1: Captain Camp began preparations for the 1895 Chicago AA football team. He asserted that the majority of last years players will join.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September
September 7: There was an interest meeting at the Chicago AA Gymnasium. Returners from the 1894 team included John Slater, Oberne, Lucas, Brown, Jake Camp, and Ben Thomas. New players were R. E. Grout, R. T. Hoagland, E. M. Smith, C. B. Coffeen, H. A. Parkyn, D. A. Stone, R. Bartl, H. G. Hadden, L. McKinley, Harvey, Barr, and Gage.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September
The experience of the men ranged from the high school team at Hyde Park, the local YMCA, minor teams like Oak park, athletic Clubs like Chicago AA and Johnstown AC, and major colleges like Illinois, Michigan, Virginia Military Institute, Iowa, Minnesota, and Cornell. A schedule was announced for the season as well.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September
Games would also be arranged with Northwestern and Chicago universities, and a trip to California may be taken around Christmas time. Practices would begin on September 10, and be held every Tuesday and Thursday.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.
Chicago AA defeated the Swift & Co. Stock Yarders 28 to 0 at their own CAA field. The game was an exhibition for the coming season, and so the Stock Yarders were given a chance to continue playing many times after fumbles and turnovers. CAA played well, scoring six touchdowns, although there was an instance where Thompson, playing left tackle, accidentally tackled Captain Camp, confusing him for a Stock-Yard player, and consequentially stopped a sure touchdown for the AA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.
September 16: A game is arranged with Chicago University for the twenty-eighth of September at Marshall Field. It was dubbed as the first real contest for each team.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.
September 18: The Armour Institute of Technology released their schedule for 1895, and they were set to play the CAA on October 16.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Preseason, September 15: Swift & Co.
September 21: Englewood YMCA didn't show up for their match with Chicago AA. The team instead played against itself, with some additional players from Swift & Co. The "regulars" won 4–0 in a 30-minute contest.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, September 28: Chicago
Chicago AA lost to the Chicago University Maroons, 0–8, in their first recognized game of the 1895 season. It was an overcast day with a light drizzle. Chicago AA's quarterback was injured in the game, although it was slight. Chicago AA was favored 3–2 over Chicago. Chicago would hold CAA scoreless, which would only happen again in the athletic associations blowout loss to Orange AC. Stone was credited with the best CAA performance of the day, along with Right half back Slater. The attendance figure is unknown, but there was reportedly a large crowd around Marshall field spectating the affair.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October
October 2: There was a report that star center Stevenson would play for Rush Medical for the remainder of their 1895 season, but this claim would never materialize.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College
Chicago AA defeated Rush Medical 30 to 0. It was reported that a great deal of fumbles killed any chance for Rush Medical to win the contest. Another report speculates that Chicago AA would have scored yet another touchdown, but were only given 3 downs instead of 4 by mistake. Slater had the best performance, and scored the most touchdowns in the game. Haddon, Hoagland, and Thompson also scored. The most points of the day were the result of fullback brown and his five PATs (at the time called goals after touchdowns, and worth 2 points) for 10 points.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College
October 8: Mr. Cornish sent a letter to Chicago's athletic department, requesting a 2nd game between them and Chicago AA. He cited the 1894 season, where Chicago AA successfully defeated the University team in late September, but agreed to a 2nd contest so Chicago could get a 2nd chance (which they would capitalize on with a 20 to 0 win over the athletic association in mid October). He asserts that this would be nothing but practice for the Maroons, and he is not challenging, but merely suggesting another game should be played if convenient.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 5: Rush Medical College
October 10: Chicago AA practiced with Rush Medical in preparation of their October 12 matchup with the Illinois Fighting Illini football team. During this practice, the AA players decide to practice several "feint" (trick) plays, most notably the "criss-cross" play, which isn't explained, but appears numerous times throughout the remainder of the season and greatly benefited CAA's offense.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 12: Illinois
Chicago AA defeated Illinois8 to 0 at CAA field. Illinois came into the game 1–0 after a 48 to 0 clobbering of Wabash, while the CAA was fresh off their blowout of Rush Medical. Camp and Parkyn scored the two AA touchdowns, Camp in particular was a surprise in the CAA line-up, as he had just recently come from a sick bed and was reportedly in no condition to play. Slater was mentioned as playing the best game, with many gains down the left side of the field, as that was Illinois' weak spot. Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (DCAC) would also release their schedule for the 1895 football season, which included a game with Chicago AA on November 9.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 12: Illinois
October 16: The match against Lake Forest was postponed to October 22. In the meantime, the CAA arranged a game with the Indianapolis Light Artillery, who were seeking a match to start off their 1895 season. The contest would be held October 19 in Indianapolis, and a congregation of CAA supporters would decide to make the trip to Indiana for this game.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)
In Chicago AA's first game outside of Chicago, the athletics managed to stack up 16 unanswered points in the 1st half to win uncontested, 16 to 0 against the Artillery. This was one of the first games played in Indianapolis in 1895, as the city had "opened" the football season on the same day. The Indianapolis Journal described the CAA team as a machine, and gave credit to Brown, Slater, Camp, Hadden and Coffeen for good runs. Thompson made the first touchdown, followed by Brown, and then Camp, with Brown going 2 for 3 on PATs. The ILA team had some minor disagreements with the referring, but overall claimed the CAA had great teamwork, and was well trained in interference (blocking and tackling).


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)
October 22: Mr. Mulliken, a man with past experience at Columbia and on the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, decides to join the Chicago AA eleven. CAA also began preparation for their journey to the east, and sent out the first roster of those going. The initial list was, Stone and Thompson as Left Ends, Thomas Left Tackle, Ryan Left Guard, Stevenson Center, Bartl and Mulliken Right Guards, McCormick Right Tackle, Hadden Right End, Aldrich Quarterback, Coffeen, Blaney and Hoagland Right Half Backs, Slater Left Half Back, and Brown Full Back.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 19: Indianapolis Light Artillery (first match)
Camp would not attend the trip East due to ill health. Another important event to note is the football teams of Rush Medical College and Lake Forest combining for the remainder of the 1895 season. Rush would bolster the Lake Forest ranks, while also attempting Lake Forest's reportedly impossible schedule of Northwestern, Michigan, and Illinois, who at the time had a combined record of 9-3, with Michigan undefeated. Lake Forest had also just come from contests between the likes of Wisconsin and Chicago, who had beaten them 52 to 0 and 26 to 5 respectively. They had even lost to the minor team Amour, 6 to 0, and so when a merger was proposed between them and Rush, the agreement was made. The two teams hoped to stand a better chance against the CAA as well when they play them this afternoon.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 22: Rush-Lake Forest
The contest was yet another blowout for the semi-professionals, as Rush-Lake Forest suffered from injury, and CAA's FB Brown had a perfect 5 for 5 PAT streak, culminating in a 30 to 0 shellacking of the makeshift college team. Thomas scores the first Touchdown, followed by Blaney twice to end the first half. Blaney attained another touchdown at the beginning of the next half, with Thomas also scoring the last touchdown, and Brown rounding out the score to 30 with his impeccable kicking. Although the score is large, one writer for The Inter Ocean newspaper claimed that CAA played horribly.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 22: Rush-Lake Forest
He asserted that "if yesterday's showing is a test of the ability at the game, it [The Chicago AA team] would have to work hard to defeat the Yohokas Pigskin Pelters or any like organization." In other news, the CAA would hold a practice with the Illinois Cycling Club this afternoon, the last practice before their trip east on October 24 at 10:30 A. M.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip
October 24: The football team left this morning. Because of A. B. Camp's continued absence from ill health, Center Archibald Stevenson was appointed as new captain for the Chicago Athletics. The final lineup for those leaving with the team were Stone, Thompson, Stevenson, McCormick, Hadden, Huddelson, Aldrich, Slater, Brown, Blaney, Coffeen, Brown, and Mulliken. The first game scheduled in the East was against the Newton Athletic Club of Boston on October 26.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip
October 25: The schedule for Chicago AA's trip was highlighted by the Chicago Inter Ocean.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, Eastern trip
Penn and Orange AC were outlined as the most difficult games of the trip, with the Penn Quakers in particular on a ten game win streak, along with having outscored their opponents 298 to 0. A Thanksgiving Day game against the Boston Athletic Association was also scheduled.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 26: Newton AC
In the first contest of C.A.A's trip east, the Athletics edged the men of Newton AC in the closing seconds of the first half. Under the watchful eyes of 2800 spectators, CAA had the ball on Newton's 5 yard line, with 35 seconds to go. First, second, and third down went by with no gain for the Chicago AA Eleven. With 10 seconds remaining, it was still Chicago's possession, and with one last shove at the Newton Defensive Line, Full Back Brown rolled into the endzone over a mass of players, achieving a walk-off touchdown and subsequent PAT.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 26: Newton AC
The game could've been won in the first half, had Chicago AA not fumbled on the Newton AC 4 yard line, but besides that the game was close and both sides held up well. Stevenson was the center of attention for the Athletics, holding the line firm and knocking back Newton's star player, Mr. Draper, numerous times throughout the contest. Brown also had a good game, and Bartl got injured.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 29: MIT
CAA crushed the MIT engineers at their own field in Cambridge, MA. The two teams were in poor condition, but MIT was worse, having six substitutes starting, instead of their more experienced players. The football teams had also played a tie game in 1894, where both organizations were in their prime. Slater was yet again a star player, pulling off 3 touchdowns, while Hadden played well in his new Right Tackle position, and scored 3 touchdowns himself. Brown also had a great day, going 7 for 8 in PATs, with 2 touchdowns of his own. Other players that put points on the board for CAA was Thomas with two and Huddelston with one. With 4 minutes left to play the game was called, as MIT had absolutely no chance of recovering the deficit, and were thoroughly defeated.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, October 29: MIT
October 31: The Philadelphia Inquirer named Chicago AA,"strongest eleven in the west, college or otherwise." The game against Penn decided to be at 3:00 in the afternoon, with an admission of 50 cents, and an extra 25 for reserved seating. It would be played at Penn's own Franklin Field, on the corner of 33rd and spruce streets. The last time the Chicago Athletic Association played the Pennsylvania Quakers, it was 1892, and the situation at hand was remarkably similar to that of the 1895 contest. Penn was 10-0, having shut out 9 and outscored their opponents 349 to 6. Chicago lost that contest 10 to 12, but was the first opponent of the season to scored double digits against the Quakers.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn
CAA played rough, dirty in the eyes of some, as they lost to the superior university team of Pennsylvania, 4 to 12. CAA came into this prime matchup 6-1, while outscoring their opponents 142 to 8, and recording 6 shutouts. Penn on the other hand, was 10-0, having shut out all ten opponents, and outscoring them 370 to 0. They had won the last 22 contests they had played in, 19 being shutouts, and had not lost a contest since November 30, 1893, against the Harvard Crimson.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn
The game was actually considered a success for the CAA, as it was the first points scored against the Eastern school in their 1895 season. Chicago AA was also the first team in the 1895 season to tie Penn at some point in the game (besides a 0-0 tie of course, as every contest starts off with both teams tied at 0), when Slater managed to score on Quakers, 4-4, midway through the 2nd half.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn
The Penn team was so beaten up by the semi-pros, John C. Bell, head of the University football committee, took out his Penn players in the fear that too many players would get injured. Seeing as the score was still tied 4 to 4, he eventually let his players back in, where they would score two unanswered touchdowns for the final 4 to 12 score. Penn was furious after the game, and on November 7, they officially declared that the school would never play another athletic club, association, or non-collegiate team again, cancelling their 1895 matchup against undefeated Boston AA. The University juggernauts would end the season 14-0, and were declared national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and co-national champions with Yale by well-known football historian Parke H. Davis (all retroactively).


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn
November 4: The CAA football team was looked after by the upstart Manhattan Athletic Club. They were allowed to hold a daily practice on Manhattan Field, and at the city gym in NYC. The Inter Ocean newspaper reported on a speculated, "four-cornered" athletic league, between the Chicago, Boston, Crescent, and Orange Athletic Associations.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 1: Penn
November 5: The CAA was again dubbed champions of the West, this time by The Sun (New York City), ahead of their match against the Orange Athletic Club. The New Jersey based organization currently held a mediocre 3-2-1 record, although those two losses were against Lafayette (final record of 6-2) and Yale (final record of 13-0-2, and co national champion by Davis), and the tie was against Princeton (final record 10-1-1).


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 5: Orange Athletic Club
CAA suffered their only loss against a non-collegiate football team, getting blanked by the superior athletic club in front of the biggest crowd they would see that year. Hadden had the best performance of the day for Chicago as Right Tackle, while Slater also played well against the Jersey men. Although this was a crushing defeat, CAA did not lose its contention for Champions of the West, as Eastern organizations like Orange AC did not hold much weight in the "standings" that sportswriters in the Midwest factored into their opinions.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 5: Orange Athletic Club
A record of the attendance for the game is highly contested, with 4 different newspapers given figures of three, four, five, and nine thousand. Orange AC would finish 6-4-1, beating Navy 10 to 6, forfeiting their game against Crescent AC for a 0-2 "loss", losing their rematch against Yale 0 to 26, and finally playing Crescent AC on Thanksgiving Day for a 10-0 shutout. Their Scrub (practice) team also beat Elmira AC 6 to 0, and their consolidated (combined) team lost to the Entré Nous Club of Paterson, 0-10.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA
CAA demolished the local YMCA of Wilmington, Delaware, 40-0 in their most denominating victory of 1895. Blaney, Coffeen, and Thomas all had a good day, with Thomas tallying three touchdowns, and Blaney scoring on an 85 yard run. With Fullback Brown not playing, for unknown reasons, Huddelson took over that duty. He would go a perfect 6 for 6 on PATs (at the time called goals after touchdowns). Hadden would also score 2 touchdowns, and Coffeen scored another on a 75 yard run.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA
There was betting among the spectators that Chicago AA would reach the "century-mark" (100 points), which at that time was incredibly more common than it is in the modern (post-WWII) era of football. YMCA only had the ball three times throughout the entire contest, and each of those possessions ended with a YMCA fumble. A reporter for the Chicago Tribune, who wrote an account of the game, mused that the YMCA boys were "saplings in a tornado." After the game, CAA would head back up to Pennsylvania on the B&O Railroad, for their game against the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club of Pittsburgh.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 7: Wilmington YMCA
November 8: An article in the Pittsburgh press states that after their crushing defeat from Orange AC, the New Jersey athletic club is slated to be the 1895 "Athletic Club Champions". They also highlight how Chicago AA could still win the informal tile. If Boston AA beats Crescent AA, Crescent AA defeats Orange AC, and Boston AA loses their Thanksgiving Day contest against the CAA, then Chicago would have a legitimate claim to the distinction. The players arrived today in Pittsburgh, reportedly exhausted, and went right to bed. Shortly after noon, they rose to practice at Exposition Park, ahead of their match against DCAC. After the practice, Brown met up with an old college friend, Ed Young, who was captaining the Duquesne team, and they spent their day talking over  the old Cornell days.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
The Chicago Athletics faced off against the Duquesne AC on November 9, pulling out a 34 to 4 thumping, although allowing the Pittsburgh men an uncharacteristic touchdown. It was a muddy day on Exposition Field. Six different men scored points for this game, a CAA record for the year. Thomas garnered two touchdowns, while Blaney, Hadden, Brown, and Slater each tallied a score.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
For the first time in 1895, two different men scored PATs for the Athletics, Huddelson with three and Brown with one, and CAA also got its first known points off of the other team, when they blocked a kick in the endzone and DCAC player Vaill fell on it for a safety. Blaney was not actually supposed to be present, as he told the team the day before he was going to visit his folks in Pittsburgh. After this game, the team left for their home in Chicago.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
They had gone 4-2 on their eastern trip, an impressive total for a journey that lasted less than two weeks. Stevenson, Barter, Hadden, and Blaney did not leave with the team though, instead staying in Pitt to hear cash offers from the Duquesne and Pittsburgh Athletic Clubs to play for them instead. None of them would knowingly end up accepting this money, although it is unknown what Barter decided.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
November 13- Bob Wrenn, Harvard's star quarterback, agreed to play his position for CAA in their thanksgiving day game against Boston AA. He had been refereeing many games throughout Chicago while he stayed in the city, including Chicago vs Wisconsin on November 2, Chicago vs Northwestern on the 16th, and Wisconsin vs Minnesota the day after that in Minneapolis. He was absent from the roster of the CAA and so its assumed that he did not follow through with his reported confirmation.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
He was also still in Chicago at the time, as he was the umpire for Indiana vs Wabash the day after Thanksgiving. There was no follow up piece to explain why he did not play with the CAA on November 28, but he would not be there for the contest in a playing capacity, with Bill Aldrich leading the Athletic men instead.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
November 14-The football Committee of the Chicago Athletic Association held a meeting on their current roster, and decided it would not be good enough for their games ahead. They stated that only five of their starting eleven were "first class" (there is no mention of who those players were). Manager Cornish was told to scour the Northwest for players, and to especially seek out the infamous "Pudge" Heffelfinger, who was currently coaching at Minnesota, along with any good half backs and tackles. The object was to get the best from Beloit, Lake Forest, and any other top colleges in the region. The remaining contests were a rematch with the Indianapolis Light Artillery on November 23 , first mentioned today, and the Thanksgiving game against BAA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
November 15- Several mid and northwest universities voiced their displeasure in the new CAA endeavor to find more skilled players for their football team. Possible targets were narrowed down to Northwestern half backs, Captain Jesse Van Doozer and Potter, Captain Woolsey from lake Forest, and player-coaches Heffelfinger and Atkinson from Minnesota and Beloit respectively.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
November 20- The infamous Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first men to accept manager Cornish's call for players, and agrees to play with the CAA in their thanksgiving Day contest. This was great new for the team, as Pudge was a 3-time All-American and played at Yale prior to his short coaching career with Minnesota.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 9: Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
November 23- Van Doozer and Potter both agree to play for the CAA. Northwestern reportedly did not object to the decision, as long as he returned to the University for football after the contest.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
CAA defeated the much-improved Indianapolis Light Artillery team of Indiana on an icy November afternoon. ILA came into the contest with new players just like CAA, the most notable being star Pennyslvannia halfback Winchester Osgood, along with players from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Purdue, and Butler. CAA did not actually employ their entire starting roster, saving Hadden and Brown for the BAA game (the players Cornish had recruited recently would also not show up until the Thanksgiving Day game). It was a rough and rowdy affair for players and spectators.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
The crowd was reportedly unruly, with manager Cornish getting a punch to the nose by a rogue onlooker, and the police barely being able to keep the crowd off the muddy field. Thomas scored the single CAA touchdown in the 2nd half for a bare 4-0 win, defeating any chance for the ILA to avenge their late October loss.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
November 24- Coach Stickney of Wisconsin University agreed to play half-back for the CAA on Thanksgiving. The leader of his football team, Captain Richards, has yet to be confirmed. Richards will play according to some Madison Businessmen "in the know", while Richards' fraternity brothers denies this claim. If he does play he would be put in as full back.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
November 25- Preparations for the BAA-CAA game were nearly complete, with addition seats added to CAA "stadium" to accommodate for three thousand more. An addition three thousand were suspected to stand around the field as well. Tickets were also sold for special box seats on Carriages next to the stadium.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
November 26- In an article for the Daily Inter Ocean, Pudge Heffelfinger declared that this Thanksgiving contest would be his last appearance as a player or coach, and he is retiring from Athletics to get married. Another article states that the Boston AA and Chicago AA contest, combined with the college game of Chicago vs Michigan, would go down as the greatest day of Chicago Football up to this point.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
November 27-  The day before Chicago AA's Thanksgiving Day showdown against the Boston AA, the whole city of Chicago was in a buzz. The Chicago AA colors of cherry, black, and white, were seen on streamers, banners, pins, ribbons, and commemorative buttons were worn and sold throughout the day. The Chicago Tribune went so far as to report, "never before in the history of Western football have so many players of national reputation been got together on a Western field as will meet tomorrow at the Chicago Athletic Association field tomorrow forenoon at 11 o'clock."


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
An analysis of the two teams were written in the newspaper, including a list of their game records, and a comparison of their players based on position. CAA would come into this game 9-2, not including the game against Swift & Co., while BAA was undefeated, albeit with 3 ties, 6-0-3.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
On this assessment alone CAA would be seen as the better team, but BAA's 3 ties were against Crescent AC, which was another contender for the title of most accomplished athletic club team of 1895, Yale, which would go 13-0-2 in 1895, to be named co-national champion by Parke Davis, and finally Harvard, which ended 8-2-1, with losses only to a good Princeton team and consensus national champion Penn.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
In terms of impressive wins, both teams were lacking, but CAA prevailed with their shutouts of major college Illinois 8 to 0, and an impressive Indianapolis Artillery team 16 to 0, while Boston AAs best win was against minor college Amherst, 20 to 0. Comparing shutouts, CAA had seven, while BAA had five, but CAA suffered more shutouts from opposing teams (two), than BAA (zero).


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
CAA had outscored its opponents 210 to 48 in 12 official games, an average of 17.5 to 4 per game, and BAA had outscored its opponents 142 to 8 in 9 games, 15.8 to 0.9 for a points per game average. Based on this, Chicago AA had a slightly more productive offense, while Boston AA held the advantage on defense. After a comparison of the players, Chicago AA was heavier man for man, with the exception of a couple substitutes.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 23: Indianapolis Light Artillery (rematch)
The matchup of tackles Pudge Heffelfinger for CAA and Bert Waters for BAA was highly coveted, as both men had been All-Americans multiple times, and were heralded as "the heroes of many hard-fought games, and each will try to outplay the other." Including both teams, members of former colleges had come from Harvard, Yale, Knox, Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Boston University, MIT, Minnesota, Michigan, and Butler, some very recently, to play in the athletic club's season, or just for the Thanksgiving Day game. The final analysis of the two teams is that they are generally equal, with neither one particularly favored to win. In the evening, the Boston and Chicago AA players went to a performance of Bonnie Scott at McVicker's theatre, and then had a grand dinner together.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA
The first Thanksgiving Day game of the Chicago AA football team was in 1888, when the team was known as the "All-Chicago" team, composed mostly of football club members from the nearby University of Chicago. They would clobber Michigan 24 to 4, and go on to win four of the next six Thanksgiving Day contests, shown below:


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA
As seen from the record above, this was not the first time Chicago AA had played the Boston Athletic Association in a Thanksgiving Day football game, with the two clubs playing twice in 1892-98, both Chicago victories. The 1895 edition of the contest was widely acclaimed by Eastern and Western sports journalists on the day before the game, and somewhere between seven and ten thousand spectators attended the contest in Chicago. With both teams considered very similar in individual player stats, Win-Loss records, and margins of victory, it was only fitting that the two Athletic Associations tied, 4 to 4.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA
The Chicago Tribune gives a full account of the game, along with personal opinions and accounts from the players, captains, coaches, crowd, the referees, and the writer themselves. The game, along with the Michigan vs. Chicago contest (Michigan won 12 to 0) made the front cover of their November 28 edition.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Captain Stevenson won the coin toss and chose to kick first. Richards punted the ball to the BAA 20-yard line, on a low and bouncy kick. Smith recovered the football and was tackled before gaining any ground. The BAA was held firm, and decided to punt off the ball to assess how strong CAA would play on offense, to determine their style of play.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Brown caught the kick and gained no yards. On then the next play Thomas was instructed by Stevenson to run the ball between the Right Guard and Tackle, and gained 5 yards. The same play was tried again with Richards, but he was stuffed at the line of scrimmage. Van Doozer went between a Tackle and End, and made a short gain. On 4th down Richards was called a again, but was tackled behind the line by Bert Waters on a slow pitch play, and the ball was turned over to BAA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
After these possessions, the teams decided there plans of action. Boston AA would routinely attack the left side of the CAA line, while Chicago AA would try to run through the center and right half of Boston AA. These accounted for the majority of gains throughout the rest of the game.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Boston AA tried to run Gonterman around CAA's right end, but he was quickly sacked for a 5-yard loss, and the BAA captain decided that end runs would be near-impossible with the poor field condition. Unable to make the necessary gains for a first down after Gonterman's loss, BAA decided to punt, but the throw from the center to BAA quarterback Curtis was poor, and the kick was blocked, with W. H. Thompson coming down with the ball for Chicago AA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Since the two teams determined going through the center was the only reasonable way of gaining yards, Ben Thomas was sent through the Right Guard, but was tackled for loss. On the next play Brown managed to break through the center for 2 yards, and Thompson did the same for a short gain, largely thanks to the blocking of Stevenson, McCormick, and Heffelfinger. Richards, a recent addition to the Chicago AA lineup, made his first yards for the CAA, running through BAA Right Guard LeMoyne for another short gain.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
New Right Half-back Van Doozer would have his first on the next play, going a few yards in an opening made by ben Thomas between LeMoyne and Russell, but was stopped by the BAA backfield. The BAA center was holding well so Richards tried running through the Right End for no gain. Thomas tried breaking through the Center one more time but slipped in the snow and was unable to block Bert Waters. CAA ran out of downs and turned the ball over to BAA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Anthony, Boston AA's Left Half-back, led the next two downs with a solid 8-yard run through CAA's Left Tackle (Thompson), and again for a small gain. Full -back Curtis found rare hole in the Center and ran for another gain of 8, being brought down by Thomas. Waters pounded through the line for 5 yards, hitting at Chicago AA's weaker left side. Gonterman would try an end run on the next play, but again it was stopped for no gain. Anthony was given the ball and made 5 yards for the first down through Thompson.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
He sent through again but gained practically nothing after Thomas tackled him. The same tactics were employed over and over again, with short gains of 2 to 5 yards. Finally Boston AA was taken back when Hudelson tackled Anthony for a 2-yard loss. On the very next play, Curtis broke through the line between Guard and Tackle, and ran 20 yards to the CAA 5-yard line. Anthony was put to work again and cut the yards-from-goal to 3. The Chicago line reportedly tightened and the Boston players were forced back on the next play.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
This play would also lead to a minor scuffle, as a Chicago AA player managed to get the ball during the assault, and Bert Waters tackled him and tried to take the ball from him on the ground. Thompson saw the scheme and jerked Waters away, and then Curtis interfered and a minor fight broke out. The referees eventually ruled to give Boston AA the ball on the reasoning that it had been downed by a Boston AA player and taken from him by the CAA player. The CAA line managed to push BAA back again, and turned the ball over on downs near their goal-line.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
1st, 2nd, and 3rd down went by with short gains by Richards,  Brown, and Thomas, and on 4th down, rather than risk the chance of losing the ball so close to the goal line, a kick was called. Richards was signaled, and successfully punted the ball 25 yards to Curtis.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
After no gain on 1st down, Curtis made the best gain of the day, running 25 yards down the left side, guarded by a group of blockers led by Bert Waters. On the next play Boston got called for off-sides and moved back 10 yards. The play after that, Russell was knocked out for a few minutes, and the team surgeons deliberated before allowing him back on his feet. The Heavyweight Anthony was tried again through the End and Tackle, but was stopped by Van Doozer after 3 yards. The right end was attempted, but failed once again, with Chicago AA taking the ball on downs.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
The Boston AA line was getting harder to break through, and with no chance of gaining the 5 yards needed for a 1st down, Brown attempted a kick. The kick would be blocked though, and Russell fell on it for crucial CAA loss. By this point, the ball was near Chicago AA's goal-line again.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
First down saw the ball reach CAA's 5-yard line, by 2nd down it was on the 1-yard mark, and on 3rd down Anthony was sent over for the first touchdown of the game. The ensuing extra point, or goal after touchdown as it was called back then, was missed by Russel, as the ball was reportedly wet and slippery.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Richards kicked off, but Bert Waters blocked it with his bare hands, and Richards fell on it for no-gain. The game tempo began to speed up, with both teams beginning to play fast, continuing their tactics of attacking the weak side of the line for small gains. Van Doozer was signaled to take the ball, but the Guards did not make a big opening for him, and he only gained a yard. The same run was tried again with Thompson (he did not usually play as a Back) through the Right Guard, but the experiment failed, with BAA's right wing holding strong.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Boston AA would get the ball on turnover of downs, but Chicago AA held firm and soon got the ball back.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
On the first down Slater made a spectacular run for 15 yards down the west side of the field. After a few short gains the BAA line held, and the ball was turned over yet again.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Gonterman tried yet another end run, and managed to gain the first yards of that play for either team, running for 3, but the CAA line held well, and Boston AA decided to kick prematurely. Once again the execution failed, as Curtis failed to catch the ball passed back from his quarterback, and the ball rolled to BAA's 10 yard line, with Curtis right after it, followed by Van Doozer, who sacked Curtis for a massive BAA loss. Boston AA immediately punted again, and Richards muffed the kick, allowing BAA to take the ball at a comfortable midfield.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 1st Half
Boston AA kicked for the third time in a row (most likely attempting to run out the clock, as that was seem as a legitimate option in 19th century football), and Richards plunged into the snow on the side-line and fell on it. Time was called with the ball on Chicago AA's 40-yard line.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
During the halftime, the CAA team held a meeting, and it wad decided that Heffelfinger would move to right behind the left side of the line, to patch up any weakness it might have had. Russell kicked off, and the ball went flying over the goal line. On the 2nd attempt, Brown caught the punt and began to run, but fell over and fumbled the ball. Luckily it was recovered by Thompson, who fell on it immediately. Deciding to play a punting game, Brown was told to punt the ball back. Bert Waters tried to stop it, but he was too late, and the ball flew to the BAA 20 yard line, where Dick Waters (there were too players on the BAA team with the last name of Waters, whether or not they are related is unknown) fell on it.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Chicago AA held the line, and soon had the ball again with a great position to score. It looked like CAA would tie the game up with three short gains by Heffelfinger, but a fumble on a backwards pass lost this advantage, and Boston AA recovered.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Curtis made another run of 15 yards down the left side of the field, and was tackled in a joint Heffelfinger and Brown attack. A fumble ensued on the following play, but BAA recovered it. They would make no more gains though, and punted off to Slater.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Heffelfinger broke through the weaker left side of BAA and made 5 yards with 3 men on his back. Richards was sent on the next play through the middle but was nailed by Bert Waters. Captain Stevenson was forced to call for a kick, and Brown sent the oval 25 yards down the field. It was a very low ball, and touched a number of CAA and BAA hands, before finally being recovered by Boston AA.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Boston AA could not find a weak point in the Chicago AA defensive line now that Heffelfinger was playing on the left, so the ball was turned over again.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Thompson, who had been out for a minor injury, came in to play the downs. Thomas was sent through the middle, but turned the ball over on a fumble.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Once again the men of Boston could not advance the football, and was sent back to CAA for another set of downs.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
With the ball in the hands of Jesse Van Doozer, the Chicago AA sat back, and watched the Nebraska native wrap up 6 gains on downs, greatly helping to achieve their first, and only touchdown of the day. On the first attempt he made 2, and then a run of 8 yards, before a rare slip with no gain. On the next couple plays Van Doozer made his way slower down the field, with small gains of 2 to 4 yards per down. Richards was sent for 4 more yards, and then Brown went through the center for 7 yards.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
On the next play Van Doozer brought the ball all the way to the goal-line, and on the play after Brown wrapped up the possession with a hard-fought touchdown. Chicago AA 4, Boston AA 4. The CAA crowd cheered with excitement, thinking they were about to win the brutal Thanksgiving day contest, but Brown missed what was called a "sure goal", the score stood, tied 4 to 4.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Russell kicked the ball back to Chicago, and Thomas carried it 8 yards before being tackled by Bert Waters. On the next play the best run of the day would occur. Heffelfinger was given the ball, and making an opening between Guard and Tackle, dashed through, and ran 40 yards before a late tackle by Gonterman, who came from behind and saved the game for BAA. Another few short gains would occur, before another critical point of the contest was revealed.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Heffelfinger took the ball and ran through the center, with nearly every player dog piling, while the ball rolled out and on to the side-line. Slater, who was one of the only men not in the push, did not see the ball at first, and if he had noticed it sooner, must likely would have scored the winning points of the day. But his sight was too late, and by the time he got to the ball, was tackled by a BAA defender. the tactic of bombarding the weak side of the line continued, with LeMoyne receiving an injury from the practice and sitting out the remainder of the game. Slater had just been given the ball when the final time was called, cementing the final score, 4 to 4.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
Chicago AA had kept the ball almost entirely in BAA's side of the field during the 2nd half, just as BAA had done to Chicago AA in the 1st half. Both teams left disappointed, with Chicago AA sure they could have scored again had they been given more time. Many praised Van Doozer, Heffelfinger, Stevenson, Bert Waters, and Curtis for their excellent play, and the game was deemed very clean, with the sole blemish being the scuffle in the 1st half. CAA was also praised for their individual work, while BAA was credited with the better team work. After the game, the two teams went back to CAA headquarters, and enjoyed a long meal together, filled with congratulations from the coaches and captains on their spectacular seasons.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Regular season, November 28: Boston AA, 2nd Half
This would be the final game of Chicago Athletic Association's 1895 football season. They would finish the season 9-3-1 (or 10-3-1, counting the game against Swift & Co.). Boston Athletic Association would also conclude their football season, finishing with an undefeated (but certainly not unblemished) record of 6-0-4.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Post-Season, December
December 13- Harry S. Cornish tendered his resignation after three seasons with the Chicago Athletic Association. He had been Athletic manager since June 1, 1893, and was paid $2500 per year for his assistance with the team. His contract was not set to expire until May 31, 1896. There were rumors that he had accepted an offer from the upstart Manhattan Athletic Club, and if so, would have become his 3rd job as Athletic manager for an Athletic Club, working at the Boston Athletic Association as well from 1892 to 1893.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Post-Season, December
December 31- William hale (Billy) Thompson was elected the new captain for next year's football team. He set out to help his team immediately, defending them from the professionalism claims of Casper W. Whitney, a writer for a Chicago newspaper.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster
There are a few things to note about the 1895 Chicago Athletic Association roster. One is that positions were not as set in stone as they are in the modern day, and no one on the team had the same position for the whole season (possibly with the exception of star center Archibald Stevenson, who only missed the exhibition against Swift & Co.). Furthermore, it was a rarity for a team member to play every game in the season, due to the moderate influx of new players every couple weeks and higher risk of injury from the game.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster
Only Ben Thomas, a Left Tackle/Guard, managed to play every game, and if you don't include the exhibition, that only adds Stevenson. There were several "regulars" though, those who played at least seven or more games in the season. Those players were Fred Slater, Paul Brown, Ben Thomas, CB Coffeen, DA Stone, Harry G. Hadden, Archibald Stevenson, JR Huddelson, Aldrich, and Olin McCormick. Notable members of this roster are Harry Hadden, who coached Notre Dame in 1895, Jesse Van Doozer, Northwestern's 1897 coach, and the infamous "Pudge" Heffelfinger, who played 4 years at Yale, was a three-time All American, and is credited as the first professional (paid) American football player.


1895 Chicago Athletic Association football team, Roster, Past playing experience
Most members of the team also had past playing experience at colleges, universities, local, and athletic (semi-pro) teams. Teams are listed chronologically when possible.


1895 Chicago Colts season
The 1895 Chicago Colts season was the 24th season of the Chicago Colts franchise, the 20th in the National League and the 3rd at West Side Park. The Colts finished fourth in the National League with a record of 72–58.


1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Chicago Colts season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1895 Chicago Maroons football team
The 1895 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1895 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 10–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 260 to 66.


1895 Chicago Physicians and Surgeons football team
The 1895 Chicago Physicians and Suregons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois College of Medicine in the 1895 college football season. In the football team's first year of existence the Surgeons achieved a 3–2–1 record and outscored their opponents 76 or 82 to 58.


1895 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1895, Republican George Bell Swift was elected, winning a majority of the vote and defeating Democratic nominee Frank Wenter by more than a twenty point margin.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background
Nationally, amid the Panic of 1893, the Democratic Party had experienced a national decline in support and Republicans a national rise in support. In the 1894 United States elections, Republicans took control of both chambers of US congress from the Democrats. In the United States House of Representatives election, Republicans won what is the largest-ever seat gain in the chamber's history. In Illinois, Republicans won increased majorities in the Illinois General Assembly, and increased their share of Illinois' then-22 US congressional seats from 11 to 20. In the Cook County elections, Republicans won all countywide offices.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background
In Chicago, the local decline in Democratic support was attributable to both local matters and the overall national decline in support of Democrats. Local matters that contributed to this decline in support included fallout of the Ogden Gas Scandal and an especially strong disapproval in Chicago of Democratic President Grover Cleveland's intervention in the Pullman Strike and the economic fallout of the Panic of 1893.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Background
Incumbent Democratic mayor John Patrick Hopkins's tenure had been marred by numerous scandals, criticisms, and shortcomings. This included incidents political corruption in the city such as the Ogden Gas Scandal, rampant public gambling that drew the ire of the Chicago Civic Federation, an indecisive response by Hopkins to the Pullman Strike that was assailed by Republican press outlets. Additionally, the misappropriation of significant amounts of campaign contributions by Hopkins had upset many in the Chicago Democratic party, including those who belonged to the party's former Harrison faction.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination
While Democratic incumbent John Patrick Hopkins had initially voiced his intent to resign at the end of his term, amid the fallout of the Ogden gas scandal he began considering reversing this decision, in hopes that he might be able to redeem himself before the voters. However, prospects of him seeking reelection were quickly squashed.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination
The only two individuals ultimately interested in the nomination were Chicago Postmaster Washington Hesing and President of the Sanitary District of Chicago Frank Wenter.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination
In his pursuit of the nomination, Wenter received support from the wing of the party that had in the past backed Carter Harrison Sr.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic nomination
By the time of the convention, well nothing was certain, the race for the nomination appeared to be in Wenter's favor. At the convention, Wenter was easily chosen by acclamation, with Hesing withdrawing before the nomination process even finished.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican nomination
The Republican nomination went to George Bell Swift. Swift had previously served as acting mayor of Chicago in 1893, following the assassination of Carter Harrison Sr. This brief tenure had been controversial.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, People's (Populist) nomination
The People's (Populist) party nominated Bayard Taylor Holmes, an advocate for improved medical education and public health.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Wenter worked hard to campaign against Swift. During the campaign, speeches held by Democratic candidate Wenter attracted large and enthusiastic crowds. Substantial funds were raised for his campaign and a large campaign committee was formed to support its operations.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election
Wenter sought to present himself as an individual who was not a "machine politician", and was not intending to run on Hopkins' record. He argued the central concern of the election should be "competence". He contrasted his well-regarded record as head of the Sanitary District with what had been a controversial brief tenure of Swift as interim mayor.


1895 Chicago mayoral election, General election, Results
Swift received 37.11% of the Polish-American vote, while Wenter received 57.96%.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election
The Christchurch mayoral election held on 27 November 1895 was contested by city councillors Howell Widdowson and Harry Beswick. Both candidates were young solicitors with few prior civic roles. Initially, the incumbent mayor—Walter Cooper—was one of the candidates but he withdrew. Widdowson attracted some controversy over the question whether he put his nomination forward ahead of a more senior city councillor; many voters still expected at the time that a mayoralty should be assigned to the most senior councillor. Another important issue for many voters was that Widdowson was a tee-totaller and was thus regarded as a prohibitionist, with Beswick seen as the representative of the liquor lobby. Beswick won the election with a clear majority and was installed as mayor of Christchurch on 18 December 1895.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign
Walter Cooper, the incumbent mayor, had served one term; at the time a mayoral term was one year. Cooper had always maintained that mayors should only serve one term. A public meeting was called for 30 October 1895 to persuade Cooper to stand for another term. Cooper acceded to the request but would retire from any contest as soon as another candidate came forward who met "his standard" as he had laid down a year earlier. Cooper's remarks were met with surprise by some as councillor Widdowson had already declared his intention to stand for mayor; presumably Widdowson did not meet Cooper's standards.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign
Widdowson had received a requisition and agreed to stand for the mayoralty; both the requisition and his acceptance were published in newspapers on 19 October. Councillor George Bonnington, a chemist who represented the South-East Ward, was also asked to stand but he declined. On 29 October, a meeting was held by supporters of Widdowson. They organised themselves into committees for the election campaign. Thus, both Cooper and Widdowson were official candidates by early November, and Widdowson was formally nominated to the returning officer on 12 November. On 15 November, it was announced that Cooper had withdrawn from the contest.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign
Nominations for the mayoralty closed on 18 November. Beswick received a requisition that day, acceded to the request, and put his nomination forward. With an election required, the election day was set for 27 November and the city council offices were the only polling booth.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign
Beswick held a meeting for his supporters on 19 November where election committees were formed. Neither candidate called a public meeting.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Background and campaign
At the time, it was still seen as customary by many for the mayoralty to be awarded to the most senior councillor. That person was councillor John Tippett Smith and when accusations came up that Widdowson had jumped the queue, Widdowson was adamant that he had only acceded to the requisition after Smith had decided to stand aside. Smith, however, stated that he had decided to stand after having received his own requisition. His supporters had asked him to see who else would stand before announcing his own candidacy. Nobody had asked him on behalf of Widdowson whether he intended to stand before Widdowson's nomination was announced. Smith then decided not to put his name forward as a three-person contest would have favoured Cooper and his main objective was for Cooper not to be re-elected.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates
Both candidates were young solicitors with little prior public service. Their early Christchurch careers had many parallels, with them attending the same school and being admitted to the bar within three days of one another.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates, Beswick
Harry Joseph Beswick (born 1860) was born in nearby Kaiapoi. His father was active in local political affairs and had been a member of parliament for the Kaiapoi electorate in the 1860s. Beswick received his schooling in Christchurch at Christ's College (1873–79) and was admitted to the bar on 14 September 1883. Beswick was a bachelor and known for his sporting successes.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Candidates, Widdowson
Howell Young Widdowson (born 1859) was also educated at Christ's College (1873–77). He was admitted to the bar on 11 September 1883. Widdowson married in April 1885 at Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch.


1895 Christchurch mayoral election, Results
The election was held on Wednesday, 27 November 1885, from 9 am to 6 pm, with Henry Thomson acting as returning officer. To many people, it was an important issue that Widdowson was a tee-totaller as prohibition was heavily lobbied for, especially by women. At 7:05 pm, the returning officer released the results and declared Beswick elected. The turnout was the highest that had ever been recorded in Christchurch, with the previous high set the previous year, exceeded by either more than 100 or 200 votes (sources differ). It was noted that Beswick was the first bachelor ever elected as Christchurch mayor.