1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team

1919 Centre Praying Colonels football

Centre players after the defeat of West Virginia
National champion (Sagarin)
SIAA co-champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1919 record 9–0 (3–0 SIAA)
Head coach Charley Moran
Home stadium Cheek Field and Farris Stadium
1919 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Auburn + 5 1 0     8 1 0
Centre + 3 0 0     9 0 0
Alabama 6 1 0     8 1 0
Vanderbilt 4 1 2     5 1 2
Mississippi A&M 5 2 0     6 2 0
Kentucky 3 1 1     3 4 1
Georgia Tech 2 1 0     7 3 0
Georgia 4 2 2     4 2 3
Furman 2 1 1     6 2 1
Tulane 3 2 1     6 2 1
Clemson 3 2 2     6 2 2
LSU 2 2 0     6 2 0
Florida 2 2 0     5 3 0
Wofford 1 1 0     3 2 1
Ole Miss 1 4 0     4 4 0
The Citadel 1 4 0     4 4 1
Sewanee 1 4 0     3 6 0
Tennessee 0 3 2     3 3 3
South Carolina 0 4 1     1 7 1
Transylvania 0 1 0     0 1 0
Mercer 0 1 0     0 2 0
Georgetown 0 2 0     0 2 0
Mississippi College 0 4 0     3 5 1
Howard 0 4 0     3 5 2
  • + Conference co-champions

The 1919 Centre Praying Colonels football team represented Centre College in the 1919 college football season. The Praying Colonels scored 485 points while allowing 23 points and finished their season with a perfect record of 9–0–0.[1][2][3] The team was retroactively selected by Jeff Sagarin as the national champion for the 1919 season.[4]

Quarterback Bo McMillin and center James "Red" Weaver were named to Walter Camp's first-team 1919 College Football All-America Team. Just the year before Bum Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Camp's first team and Centre became the first school with two. Fullback and end James "Red" Roberts was named to Camp's third team.

The highlight of the season was the win over West Virginia. McMillin had the team pray before it, forever giving the Centre College Colonels its alternate moniker of "Praying Colonels."[5]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
September 27 Hanover* Cheek Field and Farris Stadium • Danville, KY W 950  
October 4 at Indiana* Bloomington, IN W 123  
October 18 Xavier* Cheek Field and Farris Stadium • Danville, KY W 570  
October 25 at Transylvania Lexington, KY W 690  
November 1 at Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA W 497  
November 8 at West Virginia Charleston, WV W 146  
November 15 at Kentucky Lexington, KY W 560  
November 22 vs. DePauw Louisville, KY W 560  
November 27 at Georgetown Georgetown, KY W 777  
*Non-conference game.

[6]

A game with Maryville College was scheduled but never played due to Maryville injuries.

Players

Line

Backfield

Subs

References

  1. 1919 Centre football scores
  2. John Y. Brown, The Legend of the Praying Colonels, J. Marvin Gray & Associates, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=UHLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA417&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
  4. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  5. "Centre College of Kentucky". School 31: 428. 1919.
  6. "Centre College Football Records (1910-1919)".
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