1907 Sewanee Tigers football team

The 1907 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team competed in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and was coached by Arthur G. Erwin in his first year as head coach, compiling a record of 8–1 (6–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 250 to 29. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a might good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."[1]

1907 Sewanee Tigers football
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1907 record8–1 (6–1 SIAA)
Head coach
CaptainWalter Barrett
Home stadiumHardee Field
1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Vanderbilt $ 3 0 0  5 1 1
Sewanee 6 1 0  8 1 0
LSU 3 1 0  7 3 0
Alabama 3 1 2  5 1 2
Tennessee 3 2 0  7 2 1
Auburn 3 2 1  6 2 1
Georgia 3 3 1  4 3 1
Mississippi A&M 3 3 0  6 3 0
Georgia Tech 2 4 0  4 4 0
Clemson 1 3 0  4 4 0
Mercer 0 3 0  3 3 0
Howard (AL) 0 5 0  2 5 0
Ole Miss 0 5 0  0 6 0
Nashville         
  • $ Conference champion

Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown. It was just the second year of the legal forward pass. The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.[2] Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 3Mooney School*W 23–0
October 10Mississippi A&M
  • Hardee Field
  • Sewanee, TN
W 38–0
October 19at AuburnW 12–6
October 21at AlabamaW 54–6
October 26vs. Ole MissMemphis, TNW 65–0
November 2at Virginia*Norfolk, VAW 12–0
November 9at Georgia TechW 18–0
November 11at GeorgiaW 16–0
November 23at VanderbiltL 12–17
  • *Non-conference game

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Players

Line

Player Position Games
started
Hometown Prep school Height Weight Age
Silas WilliamsEndGreenville, South Carolina5'9"15019
Lex StoneTackleFayetteville, Tennessee6'2"17222
Eric CheapeGuardAvon Park, Florida6'1"17021
Thomas EvansCenterParral, Mexico6'1"16020
Frank FaulkinberryGuardFayetteville, Tennessee6'4"19819
William EvansTackleParral, Mexico5'11"18019
Guy LewisEndDallas, Texas5'11"16522

Backfield

Player Position Games
started
Hometown Prep school Height Weight Age
Walter BarrettQuarterbackCovington, TennesseeMooney5'10"15522
Frank ShippHalfbackChattanooga, Tennessee5'11"17025
Aubrey LanierHalfbackButler, Arkansas5'10"16019
Lawrence MarkleyFullbackChicago5'10"16522

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Subs

Player Position Hometown Prep school Height Weight Age
C. Logan EiseleBackDenver, Colorado6'0"16019
Kenneth LyneBackHenderson, Kentucky5'10"14619
William WilsonEndRock Hill, South Carolina5'10"14422
Heber WadleyLineShreveport, Louisiana6'2"17021
Paul SheppardLineTexarkana, Texas5'11"17023

See also

References

  1. Dan McGugin (1907). "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. National Collegiate Athletic Association: 71–75.
  2. "Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport". Boston Daily Globe. April 27, 1924. ProQuest 497709192.
  3. "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "1907 Sewanee football schedule".
  5. "Tigers Are A Husky Bunch". Atlanta Constitution. November 9, 1907. p. 11. Retrieved April 11, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
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