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Several writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest football teams ever to play. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno once said: "While there are some who would swear to the contrary, I did not see the 1899 Sewanee football team play in person. Winning five road games in six days, all by shutout scores, has to ...
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 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.
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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.
Sewanee Football Team of 1899. The 1899 Sewanee Tigers completed one of the greatest seasons in college football history. [3] At a time when most teams in the South played only a few games a year due to the costs of travel, the Sewanee Tigers played a schedule of 12 games in a 6-week period, with 9 games on the road.
The Edmund Orgill Trophy is awarded to the winner of the annual football game between Rhodes College and Sewanee: The University of the South.The rivalry between Rhodes and Sewanee was reported by Sports Illustrated in 2012 to be "the longest continuously running rivalry in college football in the Southern United States". [1]
The Sewanee Tigers college football team represents Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.The school is a founding member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), a conference chartered in 2011 by seven former members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and one other invited member that played its ...