Cumberland Bulldogs football

Cumberland Bulldogs
First season 1894
Athletic director Ron Pavan
Head coach Donnie Suber
2nd year, 13–9 (.591)
Home stadium Lindsey Donnell Stadium
Location Lebanon, Tennessee
Conference Mid-South Conference (2012-present)
Past conferences Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1895-1903)
Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference (1932-35)
Postseason bowl record 0–0 (–)
Claimed national titles 0
Conference titles 1 SIAA; 1 Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference
Consensus All-Americans 0
Colors

Maroon, White, and Black

               
Website www.gocumberlandathletics.com

The Cumberland Bulldogs football team represents Cumberland University in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Mid-South Conference. The Bulldogs formerly competed in the TranSouth Athletic Conference and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

History

Cumberland football began on October 26, 1894[1] with a 6-6 tie with Peabody and finished that first year with a 2-1-1 season record. The early days of Cumberland football were very promising. The pinnacle of the early days of CU football was the 1903 season that began with a (6-0) win over Vanderbilt then a (0-6) loss to Sewanee and continued with a five day road trip with victories over Alabama (44-0) November 14, 1903, LSU (41-0) November 16, 1903, and Tulane (28-0) November 18, 1903. Cumberland would play a postseason game against Coach John Heisman's Clemson team on Thanksgiving Day that ended in an 11-11 tie and a record of 4-1-1 [2] which gave Coach A.L. Phillips and Cumberland University the Championship of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.[3][4] That game was the first invitational post-season championship football game in the South. Cumberland also won the Smoky Mountain Conference Championships in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935. The 1916 game against Georgia Tech is famous as the most lopsided-scoring game in the history of college football, which was a 0-222 loss for Cumberland University.

For the 2008 season, CU's football earned a share of the Mid-South Conference West Division.

Conference championships

Year Conference Coach Overall record Conference record
1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association A. L. Phillips 4–1–1 4–1–1
1935 Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference Gus Morrow

Individual achievements

Cumberland Athletics Hall of Fame

All-Southerns

References

  1. ↑ Winstead Paine Bone. A Histoy of Cumberland University.
  2. ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/Cumberland.htm#1903
  3. ↑ "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
  4. ↑ Langum, David J. From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997. p. 95.
  5. ↑ "Hall of Fame".

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