1909 Sewanee Tigers football team

1909 Sewanee Tigers football
SIAA Champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1909 record 6–1 (5–0 SIAA)
Head coach Harris G. Cope
Captain Silas Williams
Home stadium McGee Field
1909 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Sewanee † 4 – 0 – 0     6 – 1 – 0
LSU 3 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0
Vanderbilt 3 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
Alabama 4 – 1 – 2     5 – 1 – 2
Auburn 5 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 0
Georgia Tech 5 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 0
Clemson 2 – 2 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Howard 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 1
Gordon 1 – 2 – 0     1 – 2 – 0
Ole Miss 1 – 3 – 1     4 – 3 – 2
Mississippi A&M 1 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Georgia 1 – 4 – 0     1 – 4 – 2
Memphis University School 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0
Mercer 0 – 4 – 0     2 – 5 – 0
Tennessee 0 – 5 – 0     1 – 6 – 2
Dahlonega   –         –  
Nashville   –         –  
Southern   –         –  
† – Conference champion

The 1909 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1909 college football season. The team was coached by Harris G. Cope in his 1st year as head coach, compiling a record of 6–1 (5–0 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 160 to 42 to win the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. Sewanee beat the previous season's champion LSU and handed Vanderbilt its first loss to a Southern team in six years.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result
October 9, 1909 Southwestern Presbyterian* McGee Field • Sewanee, TN W 64–0  
October 16, 1909 at Princeton* University Field • Princeton, NJ L 0–20  
October 23, 1909 at Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA W 15–0  
October 30, 1909 at LSU New Orleans, LA W 15–6  
November 6, 1909 Castle Heights* McGee Field • Sewanee, TN W 38–0  
November 13, 1909 Auburn Birmingham, AL W 12–11  
November 25, 1909 at Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) W 16–5  
*Non-conference game.

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Players

Coaching staff

References

  1. ↑ "1909 Sewanee football schedule".