1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football
SIAA champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1901 record 611 (501 SIAA)
Head coach W. H. Watkins (1st year)
Captain John Edgerton
Home stadium Dudley Field
1901 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 5 0 1     6 0 1
Clemson 2 0 1     3 1 1
Nashville 3 1 1     4 1 1
LSU 2 1 0     5 1 0
Sewanee 2 1 1     4 2 2
North Carolina 2 1 0     7 2 0
Tulane 2 1 0     4 2 0
Alabama 2 1 2     2 1 2
Auburn 2 2 1     2 3 1
Tennessee 1 1 2     3 3 2
Texas 0 0 1     8 2 1
Mississippi A&M 1 2 0     2 2 1
Cumberland 0 1 0     0 1 0
Kentucky State 0 2 0     2 6 1
Ole Miss 0 4 0     2 4 0
Georgia 0 4 2     1 5 2
  • $ Conference champion

The 1901 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1901 college football season. The Commodores were coached by Walter H. Watkins in his first year as head coach.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
October 5 Kentucky State Dudley FieldNashville, TN (Rivalry) W 220    
October 12 Centre Nashville, TN W 250    
October 19 Georgia Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) W 470    
October 26 at Auburn Riverside Park • Montgomery, AL W 410    
November 2 Washington (MO) L 1112    
November 9 Tennessee Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) W 220    
November 16 Sewanee Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) T 00    
November 28 2:00 p. m. University of Nashville (Peabody) Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 100   4,000
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. All times are in Central Time.

Season summary

Week 7: Sewanee

Coach Billy Suter's Sewanee Tigers fought the Commodores to a scoreless tie.

Week 8: University of Nashville

Nashville vs. Vanderbilt
1 2Total
Nashville 0 0 0
Vanderbilt 5 5 10

The 1901 team was likely the best football team in University of Nashville (Peabody) history. The team defeated Sewanee 396 "and mopped up with about everything else."[1] Vanderbilt faced Nashville on Thanksgiving Day and won 100 in front of 4 to 5,000 spectators.[2] After thirty minutes of gameplay, John Edgerton scored a touchdown taking the wind out of the sails of Nashville rooters. A riot broke out downtown the next day. According to the account of the event in the Nashville Banner (repudiated in the Hustler), the trouble started when a number of Vanderbilt students "tried to paint the stone fence of the University of Nashville yellow and black."[3]

References

  1. "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Dixie Championship Goes To Vanderbilt". Atlanta Constitution. November 29, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved July 31, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Bill Carey. "Stargazing, Vanderbilt football and 'Bachelor of Ugliness' reigned 100 years ago". Retrieved March 8, 2015.
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