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1894 Wabash football
1894 Wabash football
Conference	Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	4–5 (2–3 IIAA)
Head coach	A. Vernon Randall (1st season);
Captain	Fry (full season), Stott (against Earlham)
Home stadium	Philistine Field
	Seasons ← 1893 1895 →

1894 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Purdue $	4	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
Butler	3	–	1	–	0	6	–	1	–	0
Wabash	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Indiana	0	–	4	–	0	0	–	4	–	1

$ – Conference champion

The 1894 Wabash football team was an American football team that represented Wabash College in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAA) during the 1894 college football season. In its first season under head coach A. Vernon Randall, Wabash compiled a 4–5 record, 2–3 in games against IIAA opponents.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29		at Elwood Club	Elwood, IN	W forfeit		^[2]
October 6	3:05 p.m.	Illinois*	Philistine Field Crawfordsville,IN	L 6–36		^[3]^[4]
October 20	2:30 p.m.	at DePauw	Greencastle, IN	W 16–4	300+	^[5]^[6]
October 27	3:20 p.m.	Indiana	Crawfordsville, IN	W 46–0		^[7]^[8]
November 10		Purdue	Philistine Field Crawfordsville, IN	L 0–44		^[9]^[10]
November 15	3:00 p.m.	at Notre Dame*	Brownson Hall field Notre Dame, IN	L 0–30	200+	^[11]^[12]
November 17		at Indianapolis Light Artillery	East Ohio Street Baseball Park Indianapolis, IN	L 12–38		^[13]^[14]
November 24	2:45 p.m.	at Butler	Baseball park Indianapolis, IN	L 0–58	~500	^[15]
November 29	1:45 p.m.	at Earlham	Earlham Campus Richmond,IN	W 12–8		^[16]^[17]
*Non-conference game

Roster

1894 Wabash Roster

Quarterbacks

Huffer – every game besides Indiana and Earlham
Witherspoon – against Indiana
Sullivan – against Earlham

Right ends

Little – every game besides Earlham
Patterson – against Earlham

Left end

Dowdall – full season

Right tackles

Ashman – every game besides Notre Dame and Indianapolis Artillery
Hall – against Notre Dame and Indianapolis Artillery

Left tackle

Griest – full season

Right guard

Kern – full season

Left guards

Farrell – every game besides Purdue and Indianapolis Artillery
Bushnell – against Purdue
Rauch – against Indianapolis Artillery

Centers

Buchanan – against DePauw, Purdue, and Butler
Bushnell – against Indiana and Notre Dame
Rauch – against Earlham and Illinois
Randall – against Indianapolis Artillery

Right half backs

Wynckoop – against DePauw, Indiana, Purdue, and Indianapolis Artillery
Stott – against Butler and Illinois
Randall – against Notre Dame
Huffer – against Earlham

Left half backs

Stott – every game besides Butler, and Illinois
Allen – against Butler and Illinois

Fullback

Fry (Captain) – full season

References

^ "1894 Football Schedule". Wabash College Athletics. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "ELWOOD VS WABASH". The Elwood Daily Press. September 26, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "COLORS OF WABASH LOWERED". The Inter Ocean. October 7, 1894. p. 11. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "1894 Football Schedule". University of Illinois Athletics. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "VICTORY FOR WABASH". The Indianapolis Journal. October 21, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "1894 Football Battle Between DePauw and Wabash Goes to Rivals, 16-4". DePauw University. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "Wabash, 47; I. U., 0". The Indianapolis Journal. October 28, 1894. p. 5. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "1894 Football Schedule". Indiana University Athletics. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "Purdue 44; Wabash 0". The Indianapolis Journal. November 11, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "1894 Football Schedule". Purdue University Athletics. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Notre Dame, 30; Wabash, 0". The Indianapolis Journal. November 16, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "The Artillery Wins: Local Football Eleven Defeats Wabash by a 38 to 12 Score". The Indianapolis Journal. November 18, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "The Game Today: Light Artillery Will Play the Team from Wabash College". The Indianapolis Journal. November 17, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "WABASH WAS FEEBLE". The Indianapolis Journal. November 25, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "30 Nov 1894, 5 - The Indianapolis Journal at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "WABASH WON, But Earlham Put up a Game to be Proud of". The Richmond Item. November 30, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2020.