1910 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
| 1910 SIAA football standings |
| | Conf | | | Overall |
| Team | W | | L | | T | | | W | | L | | T |
| Vanderbilt §
| 5
| – | 0
| – | 0 | | | 8
| – | 0
| – | 1 |
| Auburn §
| 4
| – | 0
| – | 0 | | | 6
| – | 1
| – | 0 |
| Centre
| 2
| – | 0
| – | 0 | | | 9
| – | 0
| – | 0 |
| Ole Miss
| 3
| – | 1
| – | 0 | | | 7
| – | 1
| – | 0 |
| Mississippi A&M
| 4
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 7
| – | 2
| – | 0 |
| Sewanee
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 8
| – | 2
| – | 0 |
| Georgia
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 1 | | | 6
| – | 2
| – | 1 |
| Mercer
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 6
| – | 3
| – | 0 |
| Clemson
| 2
| – | 3
| – | 1 | | | 4
| – | 3
| – | 1 |
| Georgia Tech
| 3
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 5
| – | 3
| – | 0 |
| LSU
| 1
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 1
| – | 5
| – | 0 |
| Tennessee
| 1
| – | 4
| – | 0 | | | 3
| – | 5
| – | 1 |
| Memphis University School
| 0
| – | 1
| – | 0 | | | 0
| – | 1
| – | 0 |
| Mississippi College
| 0
| – | 1
| – | 0 | | | 0
| – | 1
| – | 0 |
| The Citadel
| 0
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 3
| – | 4
| – | 0 |
| Gordon
| 0
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 0
| – | 2
| – | 0 |
| Alabama
| 0
| – | 4
| – | 0 | | | 4
| – | 4
| – | 0 |
| Howard
| 0
| – | 5
| – | 0 | | | 1
| – | 7
| – | 0 |
| Southern
| |
| – |
| | | | |
| – |
| |
| |
§ – Conference co-champions
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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 W. E. 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
|
|---|
| 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 |
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. |
[9]
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