1910 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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SIAA co-champion | |
Conference | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
1910 record | 8–0–1 (5–0 SIAA) |
Head coach | Dan McGugin (7th year) |
Assistant coach | Bob Blake |
Offensive scheme | Short-punt |
Captain | Bill Neely |
Home stadium | Dudley Field |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vanderbilt + | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Auburn + | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sewanee | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgia | 5 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ole Miss | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mississippi A&M | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mercer | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgia Tech | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clemson | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LSU | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memphis U. School | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Citadel | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gordon | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alabama | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Howard | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1910 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1910 college football season. The 1910 season was Dan McGugin's 7th year as head coach, compiling an 8–0–1 record (5–0 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 165 to 8, winning a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. James Howell's computer rating system retroactively named Vanderbilt a national champion.[1]
The team was led by third-team Walter Camp All-American lineman Will Metzger,[2] and piloted by All-Southern quarterback Ray Morrison. Metzger was the third ever player from the South to get on one of Camp's teams;[3] and both Metzger and Morrison were selected for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.[4] The only blemish on Vanderbilt's record was a scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale.[5][6] The team's captain was Jess Neely's older brother Bill Neely. Bill recalling the scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale, the south's first great showing against an Eastern power,[7] said "The score tells the story a good deal better than I can. All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today – line, ends, and backfield. We went in to give Yale the best we had and I think we about did it."[8]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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September 24 | Mooney School* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 34–0 | ||||||
October 1 | Rose Polytechnic* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 23–0 | ||||||
October 8 | Castle Heights* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 14–0 | ||||||
October 15 | Tennessee | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 18–0 | ||||||
October 22 | at Yale* | Yale Field • New Haven, CT (Tie of Yale) | T 0–0 | ||||||
October 29 | Ole Miss | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 9–2 | ||||||
November 5 | Louisiana St. | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 22–0 | ||||||
November 12 | at Georgia Tech | Tech Flats • Atlanta, GA | W 22–0 | ||||||
November 24 | Sewanee | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 23–6 | ||||||
*Non-conference game. |
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1910.htm
- ↑ Christopher J. Walsh (2006). Where Football Is King: A History of the SEC. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 120.
- ↑ "On the Gridiron and Diamond". The Kappa Alpha Journal 30 (2): 211.
- ↑ "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
- ↑ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Bill Traughber (November 9, 2005). "Commodores Shock Powerful Yale in 1910". Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ↑ Edwin Pope. Football's Greatest Coaches. p. 343.
- ↑ Bill Traughber (2011). Vanderbilt Football:Tales of Commodore Gridiron History. p. 44.
- ↑ "1910 Vanderbilt Commodores Schedule and Results". Retrieved March 11, 2015.
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