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1895 Auburn Tigers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1895
team	Auburn Tigers
sport	football
image	1895 Auburn University football team in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.jpg
image_size	285
caption	Coach John Heisman is in the second row in the middle wearing glasses.
conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
short_conf	SIAA
record	2–1
conf_record	2–1
head_coach	John Heisman
hc_year	1st
captain	W. R. Shafer

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

Schedule

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Trick play

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

Quarterback Reynolds Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows:

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

References

(November 10, 1895). "Vanderbilt wins in muddy field". The Chicago Tribune.
(November 14, 1895). "Sewanee declines, the Tennessee college will not meet Auburn on the football gridiron next Saturday". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(November 24, 1895). "Auburn had things their own way at Tuscaloosa". The Montgomery Advertiser.
(November 29, 1895). "Auburn wins at Atlanta, the Georgia boys beaten by a score of 16 to 6". The Morning News.
Evan Woodberry. (2012). "100 Things Auburn Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die".
Alan Gould. (January 24, 1931). "Sport Slants". Prescott Evening Courier.
Elizabeth Schafer. (2004). "Auburn Football".

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