1894 Wyoming Cowboys football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1894

| team = Wyoming Cowboys

| sport = football

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| image_size =

| conference = Independent

| record = 3–0

| head_coach = Justus F. Soule

| hc_year = 1st

| captain = Herbert J. Brees

| stadium =

| prev_year = 1893–94

}}

{{1894 Far West college football independents records}}

The 1894 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming as an independent during the 1894 college football season. In its first season under head coach Justus F. Soule, a professor of Latin and Greek, the team compiled a perfect 3–0 record. In games against a Laramie town team, the Wilson Beauties, and the No. 5 Hose Company, the team outscored opponents by a total of 46 to 6.

For the first of three consecutive years, Herbert J. Brees was the team captain. Brees was a native of Laramie who went on to a career in the United States Army. He retired from the Army in 1941 with the rank of lieutenant general.{{cite web|title=Herbert Jay Brees|publisher=Sightline Media Group|access-date=January 12, 2019|url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/17298}}

It was not until 1895 that the team began intercollegiate play.{{cite web|title=2018 Wyoming Football Media Guide|publisher=University of Wyoming|year=2018|page=210|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/wyoming.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/7/22/2018_Wyoming_Football_Media_Guide.pdf|access-date=January 12, 2019}}