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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
Considered the "founder of Sewanee Tigers football" [1] Alexander Blacklock 1892–1895 [2] Oscar Wilder 1896–1897 [2] Warbler Wilson: 1898–1900 Luke Lea got him to Sewanee from his native South Carolina. All-Southern quarter for the "Iron Men" of the 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team. [3] Harris G. Cope: 1901 A sub on the "Iron Men."