1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
| 1907 SIAA football standings |
| | Conf | | | Overall |
| Team | W | | L | | T | | | W | | L | | T |
| Vanderbilt †
| 4
| – | 0
| – | 0 | | | 5
| – | 1
| – | 1 |
| Texas A&M
| 2
| – | 0
| – | 0 | | | 6
| – | 1
| – | 1 |
| Sewanee
| 6
| – | 1
| – | 0 | | | 8
| – | 1
| – | 0 |
| Alabama
| 3
| – | 1
| – | 2 | | | 5
| – | 1
| – | 2 |
| Auburn
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 1 | | | 6
| – | 2
| – | 1 |
| Tennessee
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 1 | | | 7
| – | 2
| – | 1 |
| LSU
| 2
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 7
| – | 3
| – | 0 |
| Georgia
| 2
| – | 3
| – | 1 | | | 4
| – | 3
| – | 1 |
| Mississippi A&M
| 2
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 6
| – | 3
| – | 0 |
| Georgia Tech
| 2
| – | 4
| – | 0 | | | 4
| – | 4
| – | 0 |
| Clemson
| 1
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 4
| – | 4
| – | 0 |
| Tulane
| 0
| – | 1
| – | 0 | | | 3
| – | 2
| – | 0 |
| Mercer
| 0
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 1
| – | 3
| – | 0 |
| Ole Miss
| 0
| – | 5
| – | 0 | | | 0
| – | 6
| – | 0 |
| Nashville
| |
| – |
| | | | |
| – |
| |
| Southern
| |
| – |
| | | | |
| – |
| |
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† – Conference champion
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The 1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1907 college football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his fourth season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played five home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record 5–1–1 and 4–0 in SIAA. Vanderbilt only loss was the first home loss in three years only the 3rd in the 4 years of Dan McGugin coaching career at Vanderbilt and all was to 1905, 1906, and 1907 Michigan teams. Vanderbilt had a 26 game home win streak until Michigan stopped them on November 2, 1907. That game with Michigan set a Southern football attendance record at approximately 9,000.
The catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the Honus Craig touchdown that beat Sewanee at the very end, for the SIAA championship was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.[1] 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."[2]
End Bob Blake made Walter Camp's All-America Honorable Mention, as well as the first team All-American selection of Michigan coach Fielding Yost.
Schedule
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Players
Varsity letter winners
"Wearers of the V."[4]
- Bob Blake, Cuero, Texas - end
- Vaughn Blake, Cuero, Texas - end
- Vin Campbell, St. Louis, Missouri - halfback
- Sam Costen, McKenzie, Tennessee - quarterback
- Honus Craig, Culleoka, Tennessee - halfback
- Louis Hasslock, Nashville, Tennessee - guard
- J. J. King, end
- Fatty McLain, guard
- David Morton, fullback
- H. E. Palmer, manager
- Hugh F. Potts, quarterback
- Horace Sherrell, guard
- Stein Stone, center
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