1895 Michigan Wolverines football team
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| Conference | Independent |
| 1895 record | 8–1 |
| Head coach | William McCauley (2nd year) |
| Captain | Frederick W. Henninger |
| Home stadium | Regents Field |
The 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1895 college football season. The team, coached by medical student William McCauley, compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to 14. The 1895 Wolverines won their first five games by a combined score of 220 to 0. The sole loss of the season was a 4–0 setback against the Harvard Crimson, then one of the three great football powers. Michigan finished the season with a 12–0 win over Western rival, Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons. Undefeated against Western opponents, the 1895 Wolverines laid claim to the Western football championship.
On October 5, 1895, Michigan defeated the Michigan Military Academy from Orchard Lake, Michigan, by a score of 31 to 0. The game was played in 20-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. A newspaper account of the game noted that the score would have been more lopsided except that the Wolverines gave up the ball several times "on fouls and off-sides." The account also reported that "Michigan showed up vastly better than last year at this time in every feature of the game."
The following week, the Wolverines had an "easy" game against the Detroit Athletic Club, played in 25-minute halves in front of a crowd of 600 spectators at Regents Field. Michigan scored the first touchdown of the game 30 seconds after the game had commenced on a 70-yard end run by the quarterback and Wyoming-native, J. DeForest Richards.Fullback John Bloomingston from Chicago was the high scorer with 14 points on a touchdown and five goals after touchdown. (Under 1895 rules, a touchdown was scored as four points, and a successful kick for a "goal after touchdown" was scored as two points.) Halfback John W. Hollister was the second highest scorer with three touchdowns. Tackle Jesse Yont from Nebraska also added a touchdown, as Michigan won by a score of 42 to 0.
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