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Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 team was one of its best. The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and lost none, outscored opponents 322–10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title. The team of 21 players was led by head coach Herman "Billy" Suter and future College Football ...
Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899 is a documentary film and book that chronicles Sewanee: the University of the South's undefeated 1899 football team. [1] This story has all the hallmarks of legend and fiction, yet as Sewanee Vice-Chancellor, John McCardell, noted: "It's more than lore, it's true."
Ellwood Wilson is considered the "founder of Sewanee football." [2] Their 1899 football team had perhaps the best season in college football history, winning all 12 of their games, 11 by shutout, and outscoring their opponents 322-10. Five of those wins, all shutouts, came in a six-day period while on a 2,500-mile (4,000 km) trip by train.
The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions. [ 1 ] Chicago , Kansas , and Sewanee went undefeated.
The 1899 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 1899 college football season. The season began on October 6, 1899 with Vanderbilt visiting Cumberland.
All-Time Sewanee football team Ormond Simkins (May 16, 1879 – December 4, 1921) was an American football and baseball player for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South . He was the son of William Stewart Simkins , who may have fired the first shot of the American Civil War .
Both teams' histories feature some powerhouses of early Southern football, e.g. 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team and 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team. It was the oldest of Vanderbilt's rivalries; dating back to 1891 when Vanderbilt played its second ever football game and Sewanee played its first. [1] Vanderbilt leads the series 40–8 ...
A documentary film about the team and Seibels' role was released in 2022, called "Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899." [6] [circular reference] Seibels also captained the baseball team that year; and it too went undefeated. [7] He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973, and is