1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve
Michigan scored 11 touchdowns in the game, three by fullback John A. Bloomingston, two each by tackle Frank Villa and end Henry M. Senter, and single touchdowns by right guard Frederick W. Henninger, Jesse Yont, J. De Forest Richards, and halfback Gustave Ferbert. Bloominston also kicked 10 goals from touchdown giving him 32 points in the game.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve
A Chicago newspaper described Michigan's performance as follows: "Michigan's advantage in weight was great and the interference and general team plays showed great improvement. Michigan's gain was on the main short and fast dashes through the line and close in on the end, but there was no lack of pretty end skirting with brilliant interference."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 3: Western Reserve
Michigan's lineup against Western Reserve was Senter and Palmer (left end), Villa (left tackle), James H. Hooper (left guard), Bert Carr (center), Henninger (right guard), Yont (right tackle), George Greenleaf (right end), James Baird (quarterback), William Franlin Holmes and Richards (left halfback), Ferbert (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical
On October 26, 1895, Michigan defeated a combined team from Lake Forest University and Rush Medical College, both located in Chicago, by a score of 40 to 0. Because the two institutions were separate from each other, the combined group had insufficient practice to perfect its team work. The game was played at Regents Field in Ann Arbor.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical
The Lake Forest/Rush team fumbled the opening kickoff. After a couple of plays from scrimmage, left guard James Hooper made "a brilliant run" for Michigan's first touchdown, and fullback John A. Bloomingston kicked goal to give Michigan a 6-0 lead. Left tackle Frank Villa scored Michigan's second touchdown from which goal was missed, and Michigan led, 10-0. Right tackle Frederick W. Henninger scored Michigan's third touchdown, and Bloomingston kicked goal. Villa scored the fourth touchdown, and goal was kicked to give Michigan a 22-0 lead at halftime.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical
In the second half, Villa scored Michigan's fifth touchdown, and Bloomingston kicked goal to give Michigan a 28-0 lead. Henninger followed a short time later with Michigan's sixth touchdown, and Bloomingston again kicked goal. Michigan led, 34-0. Villa scored Michigan's seventh and final touchdown, and goal was kicked to extend the lead to 40-0.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 4: Lake Forest/Rush Medical
Michigan's lineup against the Lake Forest/Rush team was Henry M. Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Bert Carr (center), John McLain Johnson (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), George Greenleaf (right end), J. De Forest Richards (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), William Franklin Holmes (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin
On November 2, 1895, Michigan defeated Oberlin, 42–0, before 800 spectators at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. The game was played in 25-minute halves. Through its first five games, Michigan had won all five games and outscored opponents, 222 to 0.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin
A Chicago newspaper's account of the game reported: "Michigan was crippled by the absence of Baird, Senter and Hall, but the play showed improvement over last week. Bloomingston and Ferbert were the star ground gainers." Michigan's seven touchdowns were scored by left halfback Gustave Ferbert, fullback John A. Bloomingston, left tackle Frank Villa, right tackle Frederick W. Henninger, left end Thad Farnum, quarterback Bill Morley, and substitute right halfback Emmett Shields. Bloomingston succeeded in kicking all seven goals after touchdown.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 5: Oberlin
Michigan's line-up for the game was George Greenleaf (right end), Jesse Yont and Henninger (right tackle), Henninger and John Wombacher (right guard), Bert Carr and Denby (center), James Hooper (left guard), Villa (left tackle), Farnum (left end), Morley (quarterback), John W. Hollister and Shields (right halfback), Ferbert (left halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
Michigan traveled east to face Harvard on November 9, 1895. Harvard was one of the elite teams in the early days of college football, winning three national championships in the 1890s, and the match between great squads from the east and west was widely anticipated. Before game, The World of New York wrote:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
"The football team of the University of Michigan, reputed to be the strongest eleven in the West, is now quartered at Auburndale awaiting tomorrow's game with Harvard on Soldier's  Field. Nineteen men have come East on the team. Their line is very evenly balanced, and Bob Wrenn has written to Cambridge that the Michigan quarter-back is the best in the business. They have a long string of victories to their credit this fall, and Harvard will have to play football to score. There is absolutely no way of judging the relative merits of the teams, so the veil of doubt will add to the interest of the game."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
The game was played at Soldier's Field in Boston as a "drizzling rain fell throughout the game" on a field that was wet, muddy and slippery. Despite the inclement weather, 6,000 spectators attended the game. The Michigan team was heavier than Harvard's, and Michigan's "interference" was reported to be "clearly superior" to Harvard's. Michigan's offense had success in easily making holes in Harvard's line, but lost the ball repeatedly through off-side penalties. With the game played in the rain, both teams played a kicking game, punting the ball back and forth to gain advantage in field position.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
The punting game favored Harvard, as "an exchange of punts nearly always resulted in a loss of ground to Michigan." The first half ended with no scoring. In the second half, Harvard blocked two Michigan punts and scored the game's only touchdown on a blocked punt. The score came when Harvard kicked to Michigan's 18-yard line, and Bloomingston immediately attempted to punt the ball back to Harvard. Norton Shaw of Harvard blocked the punt, and the ball was driven behind the goal line where a Harvard player fell on the ball for a touchdown. Harvard failed to convert its goal after touchdown resulting in the score of 4 to 0.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
A press account of the game praised Michigan's efforts, noting that "they played a strong, fast game but weakened in the second half." The report continued: "The Michigan team deserves great credit for their work and the dash and spirit of their play. Both sides played straight foot ball, resorting very little to trick plays of any kind." Another newspaper praised the performance of the Michigan team as follows:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
"[T]he wearers of the Crimson have not had such a battle before in years. The boys from Michigan simply covered themselves in glory by their splendid work. The play throughout was clean football, devoid of all roughness, and they early on earned the good will and applause of the crowd by their fairness and ever-apparent desire to keep from making it a slugging game."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
After the season had ended, Edwin Denby, a Michigan player who later became U.S. Secretary of the Navy, wrote an account of the season in the university yearbook, The Palladium. With respect to the Harvard game, Denby noted that the Michigan football team had traveled to "the distant and holy places of the East" and proved to the Eastern press "that we were farmers, miners, cutthroats, thugs and garroters, and to the reasonable people of the country that the men who came out of the West knew one or two games besides mumblepeg and marbles." Denby continued that the loss to Harvard was "a virtual victory" and asserted that those best qualified to judge were of the opinion that, "given equal conditions," Michigan would have won:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
"We had traveled twenty-four hours by rail and rested less than two days before going on the field, we had changed drinking water and diet, we played before some thousands of Harvard sympathizers (though they displayed an impartial appreciation of the good plays of either side, and acted throughout in a thoroughly gentlemanly manner) and finally we played in the rain and on wet and slippery ground, conditions entirely new to us. And so they won, and, even as to that, there were not wanting whispers that without a fortuitous accident — however, post-mortems are always distasteful. Let us accept the fact that we were beaten, and record our intention of turning the tables next year. It is poor policy to belittle a successful antagonist. Better exalt him for the supreme skill he displayed in winning from such a foe, and so honor yourself."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 6: at Harvard
The game was played in 25-minute halves, and Michigan's lineup was Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Carr (center), Hall (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), Greenleaf (right end), Baird (quarterback), Gustave Ferbert and Holmes (right halfback), John W. Hollister (left halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue
After the loss to Harvard, Michigan faced Purdue at home in Ann Arbor. Michigan won a close game by a score of 12 to 10. Michigan scored two touchdowns (one each by Gustave Ferbert and Frederick W. Henninger), and John A. Bloomingston converted on both goals after touchdown. Purdue was the only team other than Harvard to score on the 1895 Michigan team. Both teams scored two touchdowns, and the margin of victory came on a missed goal after touchdown by Purdue. In light of Michigan's dominance in its earlier games against Western teams, a larger margin of victory had been expected, leading one newspaper to suggest a two-point win was a cause for "mourning" in Ann Arbor:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue
"There is mourning in the Michigan camp tonight over the downfall of the football team, for such it seems, when they managed to win from Purdue today, 12 to 10. It had been expected that the game would be fairly close, as the Purdue eleven is strong, and Michigan has shown a great falling off this week in consequence of her trip to Boston and hard game with Harvard. Then, too, three men were missed from the team – Carr at center, Baird at quarter, and Villa at tackle. The defense was thought to be strong enough to shut out Purdue, however, but it was not in evidence, and the offensive work was ragged and dispirited."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue
In his review of the season in The Palladium, Edwin Denby wrote that the closeness of the Purdue game could be explained by the fact that many of the regulars had been battered in the Harvard game and were replaced by substitutes in the Purdue game." However, Denby gave credit to Purdue as "the best we met in the West." Denby also opined that the last five minutes of the Purdue game "were worth most of the other games of the season put together." He described the line-plunging of Giovanni Villa against Purdue as follows: "It was exhilerating [ sic] to note how when Villa took the ball and plunged through the Purdue line as the beautiful lady in the circus jumps through paper hoops, the rest of the Michigan men slouched down the field, crushing and driving everything before them by sheer muscle and determination."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 7: Purdue
The game was played in halves of 30 and 25 minutes, and Michigan's lineup was Greenleaf (right end), Henninger (right tackle), Hall (right guard), Edwin Denby (center), Hooper (left guard), Yont (left tackle), Senter (left end), Holmes (quarterback), John W. Hollister (right halfback), Gustave Ferbert (left halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota
Michigan faced the University of Minnesota on November 23, in a game played at the baseball park in Detroit. Michigan easily won the game by a score of 20 to 0. The playing field was soft and slippery from snow and rain, and "the wet ball caused a good deal of fumbling, especially on the part of the Minnesota team." One account described the playing surface as "a field of mud several inches deep. Minnesota was "practically on the defense throughout the game," and "only twice were her runners able to get through Michigan's line for substantial gains." The report of the game published in the Daily Inter Ocean from Chicago described a dominating performance by the Wolverines:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota
"The men from the far Northwest were clearly outclassed at every point, but played a plucky game. At times their defense was strong and then partly weak, Senter and Ferbert getting through several times for long fifty-yard runs. ... The Michigan men played savagely during the first half ... For Michigan the particulars were Senter, Ferbert, Bloomingston and Henninger, though the entire team played excellently and was very strong in interference."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota
Halfback Gustave Ferbert scored two touchdowns for Michigan, and Hall and Farnum added one each. Bloomingston kicked a goal from touchdown; another goal was also kicked but the name of the player was not specified.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 8: Minnesota
Michigan's lineup in the game was Farnham (right end), Frederick W. Henninger (right tackle), Hall (right guard), Edwin Denby (center), Hooper (left guard), Villa (left tackle), Senter and Greenleaf (left end), Richards and Morley (quarterback), Ferbert (left halfback), John W. Hollister and Holmes (right halfback), and John A. Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
The final game of the season matched Michigan against Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons. The game was played on Thanksgiving Day in front of more than 6,000 spectators at Marshall Field in Chicago. Due to the inclement weather, the field had to be "carefully scraped and sawdust scattered over the thin layer of ice" before the game began. Michigan's first scoring drive came in the first half when the right halfback, John W. Hollister, took the ball on Chicago's 45-yard line and ran around the right end for a 35-yard gain, a play the press called "a prettily-executed criss cross."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
Later in the drive, Frederick W. Henninger fumbled the ball which rolled beyond the goal line where it was recovered by Richards for the game's first touchdown. The running of Michigan's fullback John A. Bloomingston, a Chicago native, was reportedly the high point of the game. A Chicago newspaper described one run by Bloomingston as follows:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
"Chicago could not gain, and Neel was forced to punt again. Bloomingston received the ball, and, dodging the tacklers, who sought to bring him to the ground, ran back the entire length of the kick. It was a splendid performance, and no small part of the applause the hero received came from Chicago throats."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
The final score was 12–0. Michigan's dominance over Stagg's team led one Chicago newspaper to write the following:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
"The Michigan team is the finest set of football players Ann Arbor has ever sent out and completely out-classes any team in the West. ... The Michigan play both individually and in team work was magnificent. Even the worried Chicago substitutes and coaches on the side line could not refrain from an occasional word of admiration at the perfect defense of the visitors. The very appearance of the team was enough to bring applause from the most prejudiced Chicago supporter. ... [ T]he local team appeared like school-boys before them. It seemed almost wonderful that these giants could be kept from sweeping down the field and scoring as they willed."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
Michigan's lineup against Chicago was Senter (left end), Villa (left tackle), Hooper (left guard), Carr (center), Hall (right guard), Henninger (right tackle), Farnum (right end), Richards (quarterback), Ferbert (left halfback), Hollister (right halfback), and Bloomingston (fullback).


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Game 9: Chicago
Following the game The World of New York wrote that the Michigan players had "clinched their claim to the Western championship."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, All-Western selections
Following the 1895 season, a number of Michigan players were honored on All-Western teams. One Chicago newspaper, the Daily Inter Ocean, included six Wolverines on its All-Western team. The Michigan players recognized by the Daily Inter Ocean were Gustave Ferbert (first-team halfback), John Bloomington (first-team fullback), James Hooper (first-team guard), Giovanni Villa (first-team tackle), Henry Senter (first-team end), and James Baird (substitute quarterback). In announcing its All-Western selections, the Daily Inter Ocean made the following comments about the Michigan players selected:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners
The following 18 players earned varsity letters for their participation on the 1895 Michigan football team. Players who started at least five of Michigan's nine games are displayed in bold.


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff
The coaching and training staff of the 1895 Michigan Wolverines consisted of four men. Former Princeton football star William McCauley was the coach. Keene Fitzpatrick, considered "one of the pioneers of intercollegiate sport," was the trainer (and also the school's track coach). Charles A. Baird, who was named the university's first athletic director three years later, was the team manager. Frederick Henninger was the team captain. A newspaper profile of Henninger in November 1895 said:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff
"The University of Michigan team, captained by F. W. Henninger, is one of the strongest football elevens in the west. Henninger is a veteran of last year's eleven, is 5 feet 10 inches tall aud weighs 180 pounds. He is an excellent field general, plays right guard and is said to be the strongest man on the team."


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff
In his review of the 1895 season, Edwin Denby described the contributions made by the team's four leaders:


1895 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Coaching and training staff
"If to any one man above another credit is due for this result, McCauley should receive it. Not only his splendid coaching, but his quiet, gentlemanly, kindly manner, his forbearance, and his abstention from the use of language too strong for the public prints, all had their good effect upon the team. And certainly he would have found it hard to get such excellent support from any three other men as he got from Fitzpatrick, Henninger and Baird. They have all won the high regard of the entire university and the sincere liking of those who have come in personal contact with them."


1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1895 college football season. It was the only season under head coach Pudge Heffelfinger.


1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
On January 11, 1895, the Presidents of several schools met in a preliminary meeting and formed a group which would become the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, known today as the Big Ten Conference.


1895 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
As a result of this emerging conference, this season would be Minnesota's last season as an Independent. Minnesota won its first ever match with Chicago with a last minute touchdown to win a very close, physical game by a score of 10-6. Financially, the team rebounded from some lean years. They "secured a large subscription from the business men of the city, the attendance at all of the games was good, and at the close of the season there was a large surplus in the treasury."


1895 Minor Counties Championship
The 1895 Minor Counties Championship was the first running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 3 June to 29 August 1895. The inaugural title was shared between three counties—Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire—as they finished level on three points apiece.


1895 Minor Counties Championship
The leading run-scorer was Thomas Pointon, playing for Cheshire, whose score of 110 against Durham was one of only six centuries scored over the course of the season. The leading wicket-taker, Oxfordshire's Peter Rogers, took three ten wicket match hauls.


1895 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team
The 1895 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1895 college football season.


1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1895, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat John Marshall Stone was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second consecutive term.


1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Background
A new state constitution was adopted in 1890, which extended Stone's term to six years. Determined to keep control and maintain white supremacy, the Democratic-dominated legislature effectively disfranchised most African Americans in the state by adding a requirement to the constitution for voter registration for payment of poll taxes. Two years later, they passed laws requiring literacy tests (administered by white officials in a discriminatory way), and grandfather clauses (the latter  benefited white citizens). These requirements, with additions in legislation of 1892, resulted in a 90% reduction in the number of blacks who voted in Mississippi. In every county a handful of prominent black ministers and local leaders were allowed to vote. African Americans were essentially excluded from the political system for 70 years, until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.


1895 Mississippi gubernatorial election, General election
In the general election, Democratic candidate Anselm J. McLaurin, a former U.S. Senator, defeated Populist nominee Frank Burkitt, a newspaper editor and state representative.


1895 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1895 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as a member of the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1895 college football season. In its first season under head coach C. D. Bliss, the team compiled a 7–1 record (2–1 against WIUFA championship) and finished in a three-way tie with Kansas and Nebraska for the conference championship.


1895 National Association Foot Ball League season
The National Association Foot Ball League, organized on January 8, 1895 played its first season in the spring of 1895, with four teams playing Sunday afternoon games. In the league opener on March 3, 1895, Centreville A.C. of Bayonne, New Jersey visited the Brooklyn Wanderers on the grounds of the Varuna Boat Club in South Brooklyn, and won, 5 to 2.


1895 National Association Foot Ball League season, League standings
According to a contemporary newspaper account at season's end, with forfeited games included in the standings, the final results for 13 scheduled games were:


1895 National Association Foot Ball League season, League standings
The Scottish-Americans team had disbanded before the end of the season and second place (and a silver medal) was awarded to the Wanderers.


1895 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1895 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1895 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Matthew McClung, the Midshipmen compiled a 5–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 152 to 16. The Army–Navy Game was canceled due to Presidential cabinet order.


1895 Navy Midshipmen football team, Schedule
* Virginia forfeited due to major fire at the University of Virginia.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team
The 1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Charles Thomas and played their one home game at the "M" Street Park in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Western Interstate University Football Association.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team
Thomas spent two years as an assistant before being promoted to head coach following the departure of Frank Crawford at the conclusion of the 1894 season. After the season, Nebraska's second consecutive WIUFA conference championship, Thomas left to become the head coach at Arkansas.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Sioux City AC
Nebraska's trip to Sioux City was the longest road trip in the program's young history, a record surpassed several times later in the season. Nebraska dominated the game, shutting out Sioux City and setting new program records for points scored and margin of victory.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Butte AC
Nebraska again undertook its longest-ever road trip, traveling over 1,000 miles to Butte, Montana to face the Butte Athletic Club. Butte's ball control-heavy game plan meant Nebraska had only one possession in the game's first twenty minutes, and Butte led 12–0 by the half. A late Nebraska touchdown was not enough to overcome the early deficit.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Denver AC
The third game between Nebraska and the Denver AC was considerably less emotional than the 1893 matchup, which resulted in Denver choosing to forfeit the contest during the second half. The Bugeaters used a strong run game to control the game and win 12–4.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Omaha
Nebraska's first game against the University of Nebraska–Omaha was a resounding Bugeaters victory. NU led by 12 at halftime and scored 24 more unanswered points to win 36–0. This was the only game ever played between Nebraska and Omaha.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Nebraska and Missouri met in Omaha to open the 1895 WIUFA season. The Bugeaters trailed 10–6 at halftime, but scored the second half's only touchdown to win 12–10.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Missouri
University of Missouri records suggest the final score of this game was a 12–0 Nebraska victory.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Nebraska failed to take advantage of several first-half scoring opportunities, and the game reached halftime tied at zero. Both teams scored a touchdown and missed the following field kick, tying the game at four. Near the end of the game, Nebraska's players reportedly became confused about the amount of time remaining and eased back on their defensive effort, allowing Kansas to score the game-winning touchdown.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Doane
Nebraska traveled to Crete to meet Doane for the seventh time, dominating the game en route to a 24–0 victory. Wins over Doane and Omaha allowed the Bugeaters to claim a third unofficial Nebraska state championship.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, at Grinnell
A year after a 22–0 Nebraska win over Grinnell, the Pioneers returned the favor, shutting out the favored Bugeaters 24–0.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa
By 1895, the Nebraska-Iowa contest was being held annually on Thanksgiving Day. The 1895 iteration was a defensive struggle, remaining scoreless until a second-half NU touchdown and subsequent field kick gave the Bugeaters a 6–0 win. The Bugeaters victory, combined with Missouri's defeat of Kansas, resulted in a three-way tie for the WIUFA championship. The tie-breaking system of the time awarded the conference pennant to the team that had allowed the fewest points on the season; this method of selection left Nebraska in third place, but the university later claimed the conference title.


1895 Nebraska Bugeaters football team, Game summaries, Iowa
University of Iowa records suggest that this game was played on November 19, 1895.


1895 New Brunswick general election
The 1895 New Brunswick general election was held in October 1895, to elect 46 members to the 29th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The government of Andrew George Blair was re-elected.


1895 New Brunswick general election
The election was held before the adoption of party labels. Codewords were ministerialist or anti-ministerialist, and Government or opposition.


1895 New Brunswick general election
Of forty-six MLAs, thirty-four supported the government, nine formed the opposition, and the other three were neutral. Among the opposition ranks were two Patrons of Industry MLAs, representing the organized farmers movement.


1895 New Hampshire football team
The 1895 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1895 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The team played a six-game schedule without facing any other college teams, and finished with a record of 1–4–1 or 2–3–1, per 1895 sources or modern sources, respectively.


1895 New Hampshire football team
At the close of the 1894 season, the team had selected William C. Dudley to again captain the 1895 squad. However, with Dudley and seven other members of the team having left college, Everett S. Whittemore became captain of the 1895 squad, until he resigned the position mid-season and was replaced by Fred F. Hayes.


1895 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
Scoring during this era awarded 4 points for a touchdown, 2 points for a conversion kick (extra point), and 5 points for a field goal. Teams played in the one-platoon system and the forward pass was not yet legal. Games were played in two halves rather than four quarters.


1895 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
A report in The New Hampshire College Monthly by the team's student manager stated that the team played six games, Recaps of seven games were provided in the College Monthly; six varsity contests plus a game played by the second team (backups). On November 2, the varsity defeated Somersworth High School while the second team defeated Berwick Academy. College Football Data Warehouse and the Wildcats' media guide list both of those contests, while omitting the October 12 loss against the Portsmouth Athletic Association. While the student manager's report noted that the "Portsmouth game was postponed three times", the College Monthly is clear that the game did get played; thus it is included in the overall record per 1895 sources, in lieu of the second team's win over Berwick Academy.


1895 New Jersey Athletic Club football team
The 1895 New Jersey Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the New Jersey Athletic Club as an independent during the 1895 football season. The team shut out four of its opponents, compiled a 5–3 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 131 to 72.


1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election
The 1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee John W. Griggs defeated Democratic nominee Alexander T. McGill with 52.28% of the vote.


1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election
Griggs was the first Republican elected Governor of New Jersey since Marcus Lawrence Ward in 1865.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
The 1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre was an attack against black, non-union dockworkers by unionized white workers on March 11 and 12, 1895. The mob killed six black workers. The incident had its roots in both economic pressure and racial hatred. The riot marked the end of fifteen years of racially unified unions in New Orleans, for example in the successful 1892 New Orleans general strike just three years before.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
In the economic slowdown following the Panic of 1893, the Harrison Line of Liverpool led a number of other shippers in announcing, in February 1895, that they were letting 300 organized white workers go, and replacing them with unskilled non-union black workers. Union workers had just displayed racial unity in the general strike, even in the face of provocations and harassment from the strongly anti-union New Orleans Times-Democrat, for one example.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
But this time, under pressure, a "race to the bottom" bidding war between white and black groups developed into violence. Gangs of white screwmen and longshoremen began organized assaults in March. On the 11th, a black dock worker named Philip Fisher was wounded by gunfire. The next dawn, a mob of several hundred whites descended on an ocean-going ship being loaded and started firing on black longshoremen. Between this site and a coordinated attack on another cotton vessel upriver, six were killed.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
The men killed in the massacre were Henry James, Jules Calise Carrebe, Leonard Mallard, William Campbell and two unknown men.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
Governor Murphy J. Foster called in the state militia to reinstate order.


1895 New Orleans dockworkers riot
Despite continuing tensions and the race riot of 1900, in the 20th Century New Orleans black and white dockworkers would implement racially cooperative work rules, for example 50/50 representation on jobs.


1895 New South Wales colonial election
The 1895 New South Wales colonial election was held on 24 July 1895 for all of the 125 seats in the 17th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a first past the post voting system. Section 23 (1) of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act of 1893 conferred a right to vote on 'every male person, being a natural born [British] subject, who shall have resided or had his principal place of abode in New South Wales for a continuous period of one year'. males. The 16th parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 5 July 1895 by the Governor, Lord Hampden, on the advice of the Premier, George Reid.


1895 New South Wales colonial election, Results
New South Wales colonial election, 24 July 1895 Legislative Assembly << 1894–1898 >>


1895 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1895 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1895.


1895 New Year 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 New York Giants season
The 1895 New York Giants season was the franchise's 13th season. The team finished in ninth place in the National League with a 66-65 record, 21.5 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.


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


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


1895 New York state election
The 1895 New York state election was held on November 5, 1895, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate. Besides, the voters were asked if they approved of the State's issuing bonds for $9,000,000.00 to spend on canal improvements, which the electorate answered in the affirmative.


1895 New York state election, History
The Socialist Labor state convention met on July 6 at Troy, New York, and nominated Erasmus Pellenz, of Syracuse, for Secretary of State; Patrick Murphy, of New York City, for Comptroller; William F. Steer, of Albany, for Treasurer; Morris Berman, of Monroe County, for State Engineer; John H. Moore, of Staten Island, for Attorney General; and Henry Gray, of Westchester County, for the Court of Appeals.


1895 New York state election, History
The Republican state convention met on September 17 at Saratoga, New York. The incumbent state officers, elected in 1893, were re-nominated, and Celora E. Martin was nominated for the Court of Appeals.


1895 New York state election, History
The Democratic state convention met on September 24 and 25 at Syracuse, New York. Perry Belmont was Tempoarary Chairman until the choice of Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower (in office 1892–1894) as Permanent Chairman. John D. Teller for the Court of Appeals, and Horatio C. King for Secretary of State, were nominated by acclamation. John B. Judson was nominated for Comptroller on the first ballot (vote: Judson 311, John E. Ashe 99). Norton Chase for Attorney General, and De Witt C. Dow for Treasurer, were nominated by acclamation. Russell R. Stuart was nominated for State Engineer during the first ballot.


1895 New York state election, History
Lawrence J. McParlin was nominated by the People's Party for Attorney General, but declined to run. He ran instead for Surrogate of Niagara County.


1895 New York state election, Results
The whole Republican ticket was elected. This was one of the very rare occasions when all incumbent state cabinet officers were re-nominated and re-elected.


1895 New York state election, Results
The incumbents Palmer, Roberts, Hancock, Colvin and Adams were re-elected.


1895 New York state election, Results
Obs. : "Defective, blank and scattering" votes:  19,618 (Comptroller); 19,536 (Secretary)


1895 New York state election, Results
Due to the adoption of the new State Constitution in 1894, the state officers and state senators were elected for an exceptional three-year term to serve 1896 to 1898, so that from 1898 on the Governor, the state officers and the state senators would be elected at the same time and serve concurrently a two-year term. Thus, this was the last regular election of state officers in an odd-numbered year.


1895 New York state election, Results
Until 1938, in odd-numbered years only the members of the New York State Assembly (which continued to serve a one-year term) were elected, and vacancies were filled, including the judgeships of the New York Court of Appeals which did not occur regularly but depended on the birth year of the incumbents (if age-limited), the year when elected (if the term expired), deaths in office, or resignations.


1895 Newton Athletic Association football team
The 1895 Newton Athletic Association football team represented the Newton Athletic Association of Newton, Massachusetts during the 1895 college football season. Under the leadership of various elected captains throughout the season, the Athletics compiled at least a 4–4–1 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 76 to 46.


1895 Newton Athletic Association football team
During the season, Newton AA and Hyde Park AA played a three game series for the honor of silver cup that was bestowed upon the champion of the "suburban league", which had apparently disbanded the year prior, and needed to resolve the question of who would keep the silver trophy indefinitely. The cup would be given to whichever team managed to win two or more of the contests, which would turn out to be the NAA, compiling a 2–0–1 record against the fellow athletic association.


1895 Noblesville Athletic Club football team
The 1895 Noblesville Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Noblesville Athletic Club of Indiana in the 1895 college football season. Under coach and team manager Shubert Vestal, who played for Noblesville in 1894 as quarterback, the Athletic Club compiled a 3–3–2 record.


1895 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team
The 1895 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1895 college football season.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina during the 1895 college football season. They played nine games with a final record of 7–1–1. The team captain for the 1895 season was Edwin Gregory. The team went 3–0–1 on a 6-day, 4 game road trip.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, North Carolina A&M
The season opened with a defeat of the rival A and M college by a 36–0 score Nicklin had runs of 57, 67, and 80 yards.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, North Carolina A&M
The starting lineup was Gregory (left end), Steele (left tackle), Hurley (left guard), White (center), Collier (right guard), Wright (right tackle), Merritt (right ed), Whitaker (quarterback), Nicklin (left halfback), Moore (right halfback), McRae (fullback).


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia
The Georgia Bulldogs, coached by Pop Warner, were defeated 6–0  what some claim is the very first (legal or otherwise; the legal pass starts in 1906) forward pass.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia
Bob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime:"John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6–0 win. The Carolinians were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown."


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia
The ball was thrown out of desperation by back Dr. Joel Whitaker. Georgia coach Pop Warner complained to the referee that the play was illegal, however, the referee let the play stand because he did not see the pass. Only 4 minutes of game time had passed when Stephens scored. Governor William Y. Atkinson attended the game.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt
Carolina outcoached Vanderbilt on its way to a 12–0 victory. Butler had a punt return for a touchdown. The game was called due to darkness.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Georgia again
The Georgia and Carolina teams played a second time to round out the road trip and North Carolina won 10–6.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, VAMC
North Carolina beat VAMC in Charlotte, North Carolina with 1,000 looking on. North Carolina scored three touchdowns in the first half and then scored two more touchdowns in the second half. VAMC then drove to North Carolina's three-yard line, but was stopped on downs. The final score was 5–32.


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, VAMC
The starting lineup was Gregory (left end), Wright (left tackle), Hurley (left guard), White (center), Collier (right guard), Baird (right tackle), Merritt (right ed), Stanley (quarterback), Nicklin (left halfback), Moore (right halfback), Butler (fullback).


1895 North Carolina Tar Heels football team, Season summary, Virginia
Virginia defeated North Carolina 10–6 in this year's version of the South's Oldest Rivalry. Virginia thereby claims a Southern championship.


1895 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1895 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The Aggies had the exact same schedule as the previous year.


1895 North Dakota Flickertails football team
The 1895 North Dakota Flickertails football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. They had a 1–1 record.


1895 Northwestern Law football team
The 1895 Northwestern Law football team was an American football team that represented the Northwestern University School of Law in the 1895 college football season.


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


1895 Notre Dame football team
The 1895 Notre Dame football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1895 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach H. G. Hadden, the team compiled a 3–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 70 to 20.


1895 Occidental football team
The 1895 Occidental football team represented Occidental College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 6–0, including a victory over USC, and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 6. At the end of the season, the Los Angeles Athletic Club declared Occidental to be the Southern California football champion.


1895 Occidental football team
Salem Wales Goodale played at the right halfback position and was the team's captain. Goodale was an Amerst College alumnus. An Occidental professor, Goodale was placed in charge of athletics at Occidental and became known as "the Walter Camp of the West."


1895 Occidental football team
Other key players included "Little Lewis" Murray at left end, Pedro Recio at left tackle, Will Salisbury at left guard, V. Place at center, A. L. Randall at right guard, J. Ramsaur at right tackle, Winthrop Blackstone at right end (also team manager), Bradshaw at quarterback, Will Edwards at left halfback, and Will Ramsaur at fullback.


1895 Ohio Green and White football team
The 1895 Ohio Green and White football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. In its second season of intercollegiate football, Ohio compiled a 2–3 record and was outscored by a total of 128 to 78. Harvey Derne was the team's head coach; it was Derne's first and only season in the position. The team's 60–0 victory over Lancaster set a record for the largest margin of victory in school history. That record stood for 21 years.


1895 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1895 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by Jack Ryder, who was in his fourth and final year of coaching the Buckeyes. The team captain was Renick W. Dunlap.


1895 Ohio gubernatorial election
The 1895 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee Asa S. Bushnell defeated Democratic nominee James E. Campbell with 51.00% of the vote.


1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the Oklahoma Sooners of the University of Oklahoma during the 1895 college football season and was its first football team ever fielded. The team completed its inaugural season with a 0–1 record. The Sooners played their first football game in history against a town team from Oklahoma City and lost by a final score of 34–0. This was the program's one and only season under the guidance of head coach John A. Harts. The next season he was gold prospecting in the Arctic.


1895 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1895 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1895 college football season. The game against LSU was cancelled.


1895 Open Championship
The 1895 Open Championship was the 35th Open Championship, held 12–13 June at the Old Course at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Defending champion J.H. Taylor won the Championship for the second time, by four strokes from runner-up Sandy Herd.


1895 Open Championship
Harry Vardon, one of the early starters, led after the first round with an 80 but had an 85 in the afternoon to finish the day on 165. Herd had the best round of the afternoon with a 77 and led overnight on 159, five strokes clear of Taylor and Andrew Kirkaldy on 164.


1895 Open Championship
Herd played steadily in the third round and finished with 82 to lead on 241. Taylor, playing in the last group, scored 80 to finish on 244. The Championship resolved into a battle between Herd and Taylor. Herd started well but took seven at the 5th. Playing in wind and rain, Herd eventually scored 85 to finish on 326. Taylor need an 81 to win and after 12 holes had only taken 49 strokes. Despite taking six at the next two holes he reached the 17th tee needing to take 12 or less to win. Playing carefully he scored five at the dangerous 17th and then four at the last to win by four strokes and retain the title. His 78 was the best round of the afternoon by four shots, the next best being an 82 by Ben Sayers.


1895 Orange Athletic Club football team
The 1895 Orange Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Orange Athletic Club in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1895 college football season. The team played its home games at the Orange Oval in East Orange, New Jersey, compiled a 6–4–1 record (1–1 against AFU opponents), and shut out six opponents.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) during the 1895 college football season. The team was a member of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association. In their first and only year under head coach Paul Downing, the Aggies compiled a 0–2–1 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 82 to 6.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team
The Aggies played Pacific University to a scoreless tie, but lost to Willamette (6-36) and Oregon (0–46). A. J. Simpson was the team captain.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process
The coming of fall and the opening of a new academic year brought with it talk of football, the collegiate sport which had already found a dedicated following in the small community of Corvallis, Oregon. Rumors swirled that the 1894 Oregon champion Portland University squad was attempting to induce Oregon Agricultural College star Miles Phillips to enroll in their school. Although the return of Phillips remained undetermined, local fans looked forward to the return of "Mac McAllister, Bodine, the Simpsons, Terrell, and other strong players," and prospects for organization of "a crack team" for 1895 were regarded as excellent.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process
It was reported that a large "entertainment" was to be held in Corvallis on October 15 to raise funds for support of the OAC football team to help cover its expenses for the year.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process
Lieutenant C.E. Dentler was elected manager of the Oregon Agricultural Football team for 1895. Dentler, representative of the school to the State Football Association in Salem, was regarded as a heady administrator and was said to be "hostile to slugging and brutality in the football game." The local press promised that "anything bordering on the latter will be eliminated from the OAC team's tactics under his management."


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process
The violence of the game had been in the public mind since Harvard President Charles William Eliot made news denouncing the barbarity of the sport back in February, blaming the mayhem on "graduates, fathers, mothers and sisters, leaders of society, and the various gamblers and rowdies" who whipped up at atmosphere of violent frenzy.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Organizational process
Dentler attended a meeting in Salem on Saturday, October 5 to organize a schedule for 1895 for the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association. Joining Dentler were representatives of the University of Oregon, Willamette University, Pacific University, and Portland University. President E. E. Washburne of Portland University was selected as president of the conference by virtue of his school having won the championship in 1894. The conference representatives agreed to accept the Harvard–Pennsylvania–Cornell rules for the 1895–96 season  and adopted the Spalding football as the official ball of the league.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected
With the framework for intercollegiate play arranged, Manager Dentler located a potential coach for the team, formerly associated with the University of California squad at Berkeley. Subscriptions were collected on campus to cover the expense of bringing the coach to town, with a local newspaper declaring:


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected
"In a day or two the papers will appear among the businessmen and citizens and will doubtless meet with hearty and substantial responses. The team is out for the championship and there are undoubtedly plenty of people in town anxious enough to see them win that the question of a few dollars to pay for a competent coacher will not be allowed to stand in the way of success."


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected
It would be the University of Oregon in Eugene that landed an ex-Berkeley star as its coach for 1895, when former quarterback Percy Benson committed for the position. With an October 25 matchup looming against the Webfoots, as of the first of October OAC's football volunteers were taking to the field for practice without a head coach. The Corvallis Gazette reported that negotiations to hire an experienced coach were "pending" and that "unless there is some hitch in the proceedings he will be here in the course of a week or ten days. "There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm so essential in maintaining interest in the work," the paper warned.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected
OAC would finally land four-year Stanford University football star and 1894 team captain Paul Downing to coach the Aggies squad for the 1895 season. A short-term, temporary hire, it would be the 22-year old Downing's single year at the helm of the orange-and-black.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Coach selected
Downing arrived in Corvallis from California on Sunday, October 19 — a scant one week before the scheduled battle against the rival Oregon Webfoots in Eugene.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Exhibition game
Prior to the hiring of a coach, an exhibition game was played on the OAC grounds on Saturday, October 12, 1895, a split-squad game pitting veterans versus new members of the team. The match was won by the veterans by a score of 16 to 4.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
Negotiations between team managers took place in Corvallis in early October for the scheduled October 26 game pitting the OAC Aggies and the U of O Webfoots. The Oregon squad agreed to pay OAC's travel expenses and a quarter of the gate to the visitors. A ticket price of 50 cents was established for the game, with Webfoot team manager C.W. Keene compelled to write to the Eugene Guard in explanation of the doubling of ticket price from the previous year:


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
"A football game represents an immense expenditure not only of labor but of cash, and this year our expenses have far exceeded those of any preceding year. We are very anxious to win the pennant and have determined to spare nothing which can help us. We have brought a coach from California; our suits have cost us a great deal, and a considerable sum has been expended on the grounds and seats.... Now there is one thing very certain, namely, we can never come out even on our expenses on a basis of 25 cents admission. So we will have to ask our supporters and friends to stand this extra charge and to help us in our struggle which means a great deal to our Alma Mater and thence indirectly to Eugene."


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
The Oregon–OAC game was scheduled independently of the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association's short tournament format, with the Corvallis press emphasizing its unofficial nature and attempting to instill low expectations among its readers:


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
"Next Saturday OAC goes to Eugene for a friendly practice game. They may be expected to return as defeated as the Eugene team has been practicing under the late captain of the Berkeley team as coacher for a couple of weeks and is prepared to put up a better game than the [Aggies]."


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
The game against the University of Oregon squad was anxiously anticipated. Well before gametime of 3:00 pm the grounds began filling with fans. A high wall had been erected to enclose the north side of the playing area, while on the south end a mounted policeman kept watch for those attempting to sneak in without a 50 cent ticket.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
The game was not close. Early in the first half LHB Bishop of the U of O broke free on a long run, scoring a 4-point touchdown. The Webfoots connected on the kick after touchdown for two more points, making the score 6–0. OAC was stopped and on the next possession E.P. Shattuck scored for Oregon again, making the score 10–0 after a missed conversion attempt. Two more first half touchdowns and conversions followed and the home team took a commanding 22–0 score to the halftime intermission.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
The second half proved to be an even bigger debacle for the overmatched and shut-out Aggies, with the Oregon squad stacking on another 24 points for a final score of 46–0.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
By previous agreement the University of Oregon as winner moved on to play a practice game against Willamette University at the Oregon State Fairgrounds the following week, with the OAC squad left to lick their wounds in Corvallis, an open week allowing time for some much-needed practice.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 1: University of Oregon
The daily newspaper in Eugene did not miss the opportunity to have a laugh, declaring that the 46-point shellacking "seems to have paralyzed the Farmers of the hayseed city, usually called Corvallis."


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
The third and final game was played against Willamette University, hosted by the Salem school on a gridiron field at the Oregon State Fairgrounds. There were 1,000 or more fans on hand to watch the opening kickoff at 3:40 pm. According to a report in a Salem newspaper, OAC "had Bidwell, [Oregon Normal School's] best man, two coaches, and half a dozen ringers and coppers" stuffed onto their roster in an effort at competitive advantage. The effort proved fruitless.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
The opening kick was received by Bidwell of the Aggies, who briefly lost control of the ball before being buried under a sea of humanity. The first OAC drive was rapidly halted and Willamette took over, with Walter Paige and Mark Savage successfully gaining ground around end. Savage ultimately scored the first touchdown of the game for the Willamettes at about the 10 minute mark, a 4-point score that was met by wild applause by the fans and the blowing of a multitude of tin horns in celebration. The conversion kick was good and Willamette led by a score of 6 to 0.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
Back in possession of the ball and resuming play from midfield, OAC Center Terrell raised the ball and plowed forward into the Willamette defense. The ball was soon turned over, however, and Walter Paige again made a long run for the home team, scampering many yards along the sideline. This time it would be Right Halfback Mark Savage finishing for the Willamette team, with Murphy adding a successful conversion to make the score 12 to 0.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
Corvallis' team then went on a long drive, taking the ball all the way down to the Willamette 5-yard line, but they failed to score. With time in the half running down, Willamette Right End Guiss broke free on what was described as a "zig-zag play," with his long run setting up a third touchdown of the half for the Salem squad. The 2-point conversion kick was again good and the Willamettes took an 18–0 score into the halftime intermission.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
Early in the second half, Willamette Quarterback Murphy broke a long run around end, scoring yet another touchdown. The conversion was missed, leaving the score 22 to zero. On the ensuing possession the Aggies scored their one and only touchdown of the 1895 season when Right Halfback Oberer managed to break a tackle and streak around Willamette's left end. With the successful conversion the score became 22—6.


1895 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team, Season history, Game 3: Willamette University
The Aggies were unable to keep pace, however, giving up another 14 points before the game was called at 5:20 pm on account of a rolling fog that made it impossible to see across the width of the field. The final score: Willamette 36, OAC 6. Both teams exchanged cheers following the conclusion of play and the fans began to rush for the streetcars.


1895 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1895 Oregon Webfoots football team was an American football team that represented the University of Oregon in the 1895 college football season. It was the Webfoots' second season. They were led by head coach Percy Benson, previously a star player for the University of California team.


1895 Oregon Webfoots football team
The Webfoots were part of a five team conference called the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association, which met in Salem on October 5, 1895, to elect officers, establish official rules, and set a schedule for the year. Other members of the conference included Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis, Portland University (a short-lived private school which closed in 1900), Pacific University in Forest Grove, and Willamette University in Salem.


1895 Oregon Webfoots football team
The first two games of the 1895 season — against OAC and Willamette — were regarded as exhibition practice games, the final two contests being official conference games that were part of the "league series."


1895 Oregon Webfoots football team
They finished the season with a record of four wins and zero losses (4–0), winning the OIFA's pennant.


1895 Pacific Tigers football team
The 1895 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific during the 1895 college football season. In their first game in program history, the Tigers tied San Jose State 6 to 6 in January 1896 (the game took place during the 1895 academic year however, so that is the year it is represented in).


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


1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Overview of the result
In 1895 there were fewer uncontested returns than at the previous election in 1892, as the Conservatives launched a determined effort to take control of the county council. This resulted in substantial gains at the expense of the Liberals.


1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Carew
The result did not appear in the local press but Lort Phillips was said to have been returned by a 'good majority'.


1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Haverfordwest, Prendergast and Uzmaston
The mayor, as returning officer, gave his casting vote in favour of the Liberal candidate.


1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Results, Llangwm
Carrow appears to have been elected as a Liberal in 1892.


1895 Pembrokeshire County Council election, Election of aldermen
The election of aldermen reflected Conservative successes at the election.


1895 Penn Quakers football team
The 1895 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 14–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 480 to 24.


1895 Penn State football team
The 1895 Penn State football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State College—now known as Pennsylvania State University–as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team was coached by George Hoskins and played its home games on Beaver Field in University Park, Pennsylvania.


1895 Peruvian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Peru in 1895. Nicolás de Piérola of the Democratic Party was elected unopposed.


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


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


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


1895 Philadelphia mayoral election
The Philadelphia mayoral election of 1895 saw the election Charles F. Warwick, who defeated then-Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison.


1895 Philippine municipal elections
In 1893, the Maura Law was passed to reorganize town governments with the aim of making them more effective and autonomous. The law changed the title of chief executive of the town from gobernadorcillo to capitan municipal.


1895 Philippine municipal elections
Under the Maura Law, Luzon and Visayas were divided into provinces, which is administered by a governor, assisted by the provincial council (junta provincial). Each province was divided into towns (pueblos), whose affairs were managed by the municipal councils with the aid of principales. The towns were in turn divided and subdivided into wards (barrios), headed by tenientes del barrio, and barangays under cabezas de barangay.


1895 Philippine municipal elections
Fully implemented in 1895, the Maura Law was the most laudable Spanish reform in Philippine local government in its time. It gave the Filipinos greater participation in the administration of their affairs.


1895 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season
The 1895 Pittsburgh Athletic Club football season  was their fifth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 7–2–1.


1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 14th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 9th in the National League. The Pirates finished seventh in the National League with a record of 71–61.


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


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


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


1895 Portuguese legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 17 November 1895. They were boycotted by the Progressive Party and the Portuguese Republican Party, resulting in the Regeneration Party and a small number of independents winning all the seats.


1895 Portuguese legislative election, Results
The results exclude the six seats won at national level and those from overseas territories.


1895 Preakness Stakes
The 1895 Preakness Stakes was the 20th running of the $1,000 added Preakness Stakes, a horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run on May 25, 1895 at Gravesend Race Track, in Coney Island, New York. Ridden by Fred Taral, Belmar won the mile and a sixteen race by one length over runner-up April Fool. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 1:50 1/2.


1895 Preakness Stakes
Bred by James Galway at his Preakness Stud in Passaic County, New Jersey, he raced under the nom de course Preakness Stables.


1895 Preakness Stakes
In 1895, the Kentucky Derby was run on May 6, 1895 and the Preakness Stakes twenty days later on May 25. When the New York Jockey Club ceased operations, the running of the Belmont Stakes was delayed until November 2 once the Westchester Racing Association took over the racetrack.


1895 Preakness Stakes
The 1919 Preakness Stakes would mark the first time the race would be recognized as the second leg of a U.S. Triple Crown series.


1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
The 1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were announced in the British national press on 1 July 1895 following the resignation of Lord Rosebery's government on 22 June. The appointments to the Order of the Bath appeared officially in the London Gazette of 2 July.


1895 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1895 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined score of 224 to 28. The team's sole loss was in the last game of the season by a 20–10 score against Yale.


1895 Princeton Tigers football team
Two Princeton players, tackle Langdon Lea and guard Dudley Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.


1895 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 1895 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1895 college football season. The Boilermakers compiled a 4–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 84 to 58 in their third season under head coach D. M. Balliet. C. H. Robertson was the team captain.


1895 Quchan earthquake
The 1895 Quchan earthquake occurred at about 11:30 local time (08:30 UTC) on 17 January. It had an estimated magnitude of 6.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It caused severe damage in Quchan County, particularly to the town of Quchan itself and there were an estimated 1,000–11,000 casualties. It was the last in a sequence of major damaging earthquakes that struck the area between 1851 and 1895.


1895 Quchan earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Kopet Dag mountain range lies at the northern edge of the complex zone of deformation caused by the continuing collision of the Arabian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. To the west it links with the Caucasus Mountains through the Caspian Sea. There is currently about 3 mm per year of shortening across the Kopet Dag as a whole. The Quchan Fault zone, trending NNW-SSE, is one of a set of active right lateral strike-slip faults that accommodate part of the shortening across the Kopet Dag and extension along its length.


1895 Quchan earthquake, Tectonic setting
It has an estimated displacement rate of about 1.5 mm per year. The damage areas of the sequence of earthquakes that affected the Quchan area between 1851 and 1895 follow the projected path of the Quchan fault and its likely continuation as a thrust fault in the Atrak valley, where it forms a surface anticline.


1895 Quchan earthquake, Earthquake
The 1895 earthquake was preceded by a group of four foreshocks that were felt in Mashhad over a period of three days. The area affected by this earthquake was very similar to that affected by the 1893 shock.


1895 Quchan earthquake, Damage
The town of Quchan, newly rebuilt after the 1893 earthquake, was again devastated by the 1895 shock. The Imamzadeh of Sultan Ibrahim, which survived the earlier earthquake with some damage, collapsed completely. 600 people were trapped in a mosque that collapsed and a similar number were killed in public baths. The houses that had been rebuilt after 1893 were again ruined, but their lighter construction meant that there were far fewer casualties. The foreshocks may also have provided warning.


1895 Quchan earthquake, Aftermath
Initial attempts to move Quchan to a new location following the earthquake caused rioting. Only after the governor was replaced was the town moved about 10 km to the east, although some families refused to leave their farms and rebuilt their houses in the old location. The new site is, however, still within the epicentral area of the 1893 and 1895 earthquakes.


1895 Rhode Island Rams football team
The 1895 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 1895 college football season. It was the first season in school history. Rhode Island finished the season with a record of 1–1.


1895 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1895 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 3, 1895. Republican nominee Charles W. Lippitt defeated Democratic nominee George L. Littlefield with 56.89% of the vote.


1895 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1895 Richmond Colts football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—as an independent during the 1895 college football season. Led by Dana Rucker in his fourth and final season as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 0–5–1. For the second straight season, the team was winless.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team
The 1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented Rush Medical College and Lake Forest University during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 4–6 record, shut out three opponents (while being the recipient of a shutout five times), and was outscored by their opponents by a total of 182 to 67. They are noteworthy in college football for becoming one of, if not the only example of a mid-season consolidation of two distinct football programs into a single team.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team
Before the merger of each school's football program, Rush Medical and Lake Forest both had plans for a regular season and schedule, which included many of the same opponents, such as Chicago, Beloit, Chicago Athletic Association, and the Armour Institute of Technology. The idea of a merger between the two teams was first proposed by G. W. King on or around October 10, 1895, and was quickly adopted on October 12 with the help of J. D. Nary and J. H. Rice.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team
The consolidation of both programs was easier than would otherwise be expected, given that Rush Medical was already affiliated with Lake Forest, the former being an affiliate graduate college of the latter. The plan was for Rush Medical, which had attained several experienced football players from their successful 1894 season, to forgo their men to Lake Forest, in return for the university's superior schedule, which included regional powerhouses Wisconsin, Michigan, and Notre Dame. The law programs of Chicago University and Lake Forest were also combed for possible talent. With the consolidation, the combined team hoped to stand a better chance against the more accomplished Midwestern football programs. Unfortunately, this strategy did not seem to play out for either team, and the Rush-Lake Forest experiment lost the majority of their remaining contests for the 1895 season.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Rush Medical schedule
The original captain for Rush Medical was Mr. Sager, a longtime fullback for the Chicago Athletic Association, and the coach was Mr. Searie. Many of the men on the Rush Medical roster had previous experience on collegiate and semi-professional teams, which included the Chicago Athletic Association, Purdue, Grinnell, Lake Forest, Washington &Jefferson, Kalamazoo, Minnesota, and Illinois. The team manager was H. C. Parks.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Lake Forest schedule
Lake Forest was originally coached by Vic Harding, and kept their captain Marion Woolsey after the merger. The Foresters compiled a 1–2 record, and were outscored 66 to 6 by their opponents. The reason for this confusion lies with the October 12 contest against Wisconsin, as the game was originally recognized as a Lake Forest game (as opposed to Rush-Lake Forest).


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Pre-merger schedules, Lake Forest schedule
By October 12 however, Rush Medical football players were already practicing with the Lake Forest eleven, and the team that played against the Badgers was composed of men from both teams, seven from Rush Medical and four from Lake Forest. Lake Forest also does not recognize this contest in their official season records, and so it is safe to retract this contest from Lake Forest's individual schedule.


1895 Rush-Lake Forest football team, Rush-Lake Forest second team schedule
As part of the consolidation on October 12, a second team was formed to practice against the Varsity team in between match days. The seconds were captained by Mr. Stoops, a left tackle, and compiled (at least) a 0–2 record against regional academy teams and other collegiate secondaries.


1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1895 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1895 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach H. W. Ambruster, the Queensmen compiled a 4–4 record and were outscored by their opponents, 131 to 98. The team captain was William A. Ranney.


1895 Rylstone colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of Rylstone in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 October 1895 because the Committee of Elections and Qualifications declared that the election of John Fitzpatrick at the election for Rylstone in July, with a margin of 6 votes, was void because of gross negligence by the returning officer by not initialing 266 ballot papers (19.6%).


1895 SAFA season
The 1895 South Australian Football Association season was the 19th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1895 SAFA season
The  'Port' Natives Club (renamed as West Torrens from 1897) was formed as a new Club by a group of players not tied to any District including some periphery Port Adelaide players who wanted more playing time. The Club's application to join the Senior competition was approved.


1895 SAFA season
A summary of the 1895 season, including Tables of Games won, goal and behinds scored by each club vs each other club, top goal kickers, and a list of 1st and 2nd places since 1877 was published in the SA Register.


1895 Salvadoran presidential election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1895. Provisional president General Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez was the only candidate and was elected with only 91 votes against. Separate elections were held for the vice presidency, in which Prudencio Alfaro defeated Carlos Meléndez and four minor candidates.


1895 San Diego mayoral election
The 1895 San Diego mayoral election was held on April 2, 1895 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent Mayor William H. Carlson was reelected Mayor with a plurality of the votes.


1895 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
Incumbent Mayor William H. Carlson stood for re-election to a second term as an independent. His reelection was contested by W.A. Sloane, a Republican, Charles S. Hamilton, a Democrat, and Daniel Stone, a Populist.


1895 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
On April 2, 1895, Carlson was narrowly re-elected mayor with a plurality of 33.9 percent of the vote. Stone came in second with 31.6 percent of the vote. Sloane and Hamilton trailed behind with 18.1 percent and 16.4 percent respectively.


1895 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1895 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1895 college football season. In their third year of play, the Spartans achieved their first tie, a 6–6 decision against nearby College of the Pacific (this was also the first football game for Pacific). The contest was played in late January of 1896, but as was done in 1892, their game was counted in the 1895 academic year.


1895 Serbian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia in April 1895. They followed a royal coup d'état by King Alexander in May 1894, in which he suspended the 1888 constitution and restored the 1869 constitution.


1895 Serbian parliamentary election, Background
Whilst the 1888 constitution had increased the number of people eligible to vote, reverting to the 1869 constitution saw the government given the right to appoint one-third of the members of the National Assembly, whilst in many constituencies the Assembly members were elected indirectly through electoral colleges. The changes were expected to reduce the number of candidates of the People's Radical Party elected to the Assembly.


1895 Serbian parliamentary election, Results
The elections resulted in a victory for the Progressive Party government. Only six members of the People's Radical Party were elected, as well as 30 Liberals. Of the sixty appointed members, 49 were supporters of the government.


1895 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1895 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the inaugural season of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association


1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup
1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup was the fourth season of the Amateur Challenge Cup, the predecessor of the Singapore Cup.


1895 Singapore Amateur Football Association Challenge Cup
The Final was played between Royal Artillery and 5th Northumberland Fusiliers I, the former winning 3–1 to win the cup.


1895 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1895 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1895 college football season. This was the first winning season in program history.


1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
The inaugural 1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1895 college football season. The  association's inaugural season began on October 12, 1895. The first conference game was played on October 26 with North Carolina at Georgia, featuring what some claim is the first forward pass.


1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt. The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South".


1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (S. I. A. A.) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conference at some point, as were at least 19 other schools. Every member of the current Southeastern Conference except Arkansas and Missouri, as well as six of the 15 current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference plus the University of Texas at Austin, now of the Big 12 Conference (and previously of the now defunct Southwest Conference), formerly held membership in the SIAA.


1895 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
No conference members claimed a championship. Some publications dubbed North Carolina the SIAA champions for racking up a 3–0–1 road trip against SIAA opponents. Fuzzy Woodruff said Vanderbilt was the undisputed southeastern champion, but Virginia held preeminence in the entire South.


1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
The 1895 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 10 April 1895, following the retirement of the previous Speaker Arthur Wellesley Peel. The election resulted in the election of Liberal MP William Court Gully by the narrow margin of 11 votes. It was the first contested Speaker election since 27 May 1839. The next contested election would not be for another 56 years, until 31 October 1951.


1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election
The election was conducted by means of a conventional parliamentary motion, originally to elect Gully. He was proposed by Samuel Whitbread and seconded by Augustine Birrell.


1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election
Sir John Mowbray then moved an amendment to the original motion to elect Sir Matthew White Ridley, who was then seconded by John Lloyd Wharton.


1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election
Both Gully and Ridley then gave their speeches of submission to the will of the House.


1895 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results
MPs voted on the motion that Gully take the Chair as Speaker, which was approved by 285 votes to 274. Gully was then conducted to the Chair by Whitbread.


1895 St. Louis Browns season
The 1895 St. Louis Browns season was the team's 14th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 4th season in the National League. The Browns went 39–92 during the season and finished 11th in the National League.


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


1895 St. Neots rail accident
The St. Neots Derailment 1895 occurred near to St. Neots railway station on 10 November 1895 when a Great Northern Railway Scottish express from Kings Cross encountered a broken rail. The train left Kings Cross on time at 23:30 on Saturday night and proceeded at normal speed, which would have been about 50 mph (80 km/h). It was hauled by one of the GNR's latest and largest of its 8 foot singles, number 1006. The consist was of eight vehicles: a guard's van, a coach, a Pullman sleeping car (Iona), a corridor coach, another sleeping car, two further coaches and a final guard's van. It was carrying only twenty seven passengers.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Derailment
About forty yards south of St. Neots station a broken rail derailed the train, the coupling of the second sleeping car parting. The hind part of the train veered to the left and struck a row of goods wagons in a siding to the north of the station. The forward part of the train came to a stand about 1⁄4 mile (400 m) further on.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Casualties
There was one death, a lady, Louisa O'Hara, who was propelled out of the sleeping car and struck her head against a goods wagon. Some four to six passengers were more or less severely injured, the guard also having struck his head.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Early indications
Although the train crew became aware of unusual noises and movement within the train, it was impossible, in the darkness, for them to tell what was amiss. It transpired that a portion of the left hand rail had broken, derailing the coaches, which had scraped along the platform leaving a trail of debris. The coupling of the second sleeping car finally parted as it passed over the crossover to the siding, colliding with a row of coal wagons. It took the brunt of the impact, losing its roof, much of its body work being shattered, and the floor being driven back into the following coach. The next two coaches were thrown partly over and telescoped together, but the guard's van remained virtually undamaged.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Early indications
Meanwhile, once stationary it was discovered that the front section of the train was also derailed. The first two carriages were undamaged (and were used to carry the uninjured passengers on to Peterborough) but the Pullman car had damage to its wheels and undergear, while the following coach had lost all its glass on the left hand side. It too appeared to have struck some wagons but stayed upright and passed beneath the bridge.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Inspection and report
On inspection the fracture faces of the broken rail were clean and bright, so it was clear that no inspection could have previously found a fault. Sir Henry Oakley, the General Manager of the Great Northern Railway stated, "I have no doubt whatever that the disaster was caused by a faulty rail, and by that I mean one of faulty manufacture -- too brittle for its purpose."


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Inspection and report
Sir Francis Marindin of Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate suggested that the first fracture of the rail took place over a chair at a minute induced flaw, which did not exist when the rail was manufactured. He also commented on the abnormally heavy axle loading of the locomotive: nearly 20 tons on the driving axle.


1895 St. Neots rail accident, Aftermath
Though probably not as a direct response to this accident, the Stirling Singles were replaced in the next few years by Ivatt's Atlantics. At this time also, cast, or wrought, iron rails were being replaced with steel and manufacturing processes were steadily improving. Serious accidents due to rail breakage, therefore, remained rare, though a full understanding of crack propagation from internal defects did not come about until the mid-twentieth century and the work of the British Rail Research Division, among others.


1895 Stanford football team
The 1895 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1895 college football season and was coached by Walter Camp in his second consecutive and third overall year with the team. It was also his last year at Stanford; he returned to Yale after the season where he served as a volunteer advisory coach for 15 years.


1895 State of the Union Address
The 1895 State of the Union Address was written by Grover Cleveland. It was presented on Monday, December 2, 1895, to both houses of the 54th United States Congress.


1895 State of the Union Address
He said, "Although but one American citizen was reported to have been actually wounded, and although the destruction of property may have fallen more heavily upon the missionaries of other nationalities than our own, it plainly behooved this Government to take the most prompt and decided action to guard against similar or perhaps more dreadful calamities befalling the hundreds of American mission stations which have grown up throughout the interior of China under the temperate rule of toleration, custom, and imperial edict.


1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team
The 1895 Swarthmore Quakers football team was an American football team that represented Swarthmore College as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team compiled a 7–4–1 record and was outscored by a total of 204 to 173. Jacob K. Shell was the head coach.


1895 Swiss referendums
Three referendums were held in Switzerland during 1895. The first was held on 3 February on a popular initiative on a federal law on Swiss embassies abroad, and was rejected by a majority of voters. The second was held on 29 September on a federal resolution on amending the constitution regarding the institution of a match monopoly, and was rejected by a majority of voters and cantons. The third was held on 3 November on a constitutional amendment regarding the military, and was also rejected by a majority of voters and cantons.


1895 Swiss referendums, Background
The referendums on a match monopoly and the military were mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The embassies referendum was an optional referendum, which required only a majority of the public vote.


1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election
A by-election for the seat of Sydney-Phillip in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 October 1895 because of the resignation of Dick Meagher (Protectionist).


1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background
Meagher had defended George Dean who had been charged with attempting to murder his wife. Dean was convicted and sentenced to death, however Meagher managed to persuaded two out of three royal commissioners to find that the conviction was unsafe and, as a result, Dean was pardoned. The publicity from the case helped Meagher win the election for Sydney-Phillip in July 1895. Rumours began to circulate that Dean had confessed to buying the poison.


1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background
Jack Want, the Attorney General, read to the Legislative Council an account by Sir Julian Salomons of his conversation with Meagher, in which Meagher told Salomons that Dean had confessed to Meagher. Meagher initially denied the accusation, however subsequently confessed stating "I am determined to endure mental torture no longer, nor to stifle the voice of truth … This awful lesson of my life I will endeavour to atone for in another clime. My resignation of my seat in Parliament accompanies this declaration".


1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Background
Sir Henry Parkes announced himself as a candidate, however he withdrew prior to the nominations.


1895 Sydney-Phillip colonial by-election, Aftermath
Meagher was struck off the roll of solicitors and was convicted of conspiracy to pervert the cause of justice, but the conviction was quashed on appeal. Meagher was returned to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Tweed at the election in 1895. It would take 25 years and an act of parliament before he was re-admitted as a solicitor.


1895 Syracuse Athletic Association football team
The 1895 Syracuse Athletic Assciation football team was an American football team that represented the Syracuse Athletic Association as an independent during the 1895 football season. The team compiled a 1–5 record and was outscored by its opponents by a total of 116 to 22.


1895 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1895 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1895 college football season. The head coach was George O. Redington, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.


1895 Tennessee Docs football team
The 1895 Tennessee Docs football team represented University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee in college football during the 1895 college football season.