1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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SIAA Champion | |
| Conference | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
| 1907 record | 5–1–1 (4–0 SIAA) |
| Head coach | Dan McGugin (4th year) |
| Offensive scheme | Short-punt |
| Captain | Bob Blake |
| Home stadium | Dudley Field |
| 1907 SIAA football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vanderbilt $ | 3 | – | 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 | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennessee | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSU | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia Tech | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mississippi A&M | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clemson | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tulane | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mercer | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gordon | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ole Miss | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nashville | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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| October 5 | Kentucky State | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 40–0 | ||||||
| October 12 | Navy* | Worden Field • Annapolis, MD | T 6–6 | ||||||
| October 19, | Rose Polytechnic* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 65–10 | ||||||
| November 2 | Michigan* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | L 0–8 | ||||||
| November 9 | vs. Ole Miss | Unknown • Memphis, TN. (Rivalry) | W 60–0 | ||||||
| November 16 | Georgia Tech |
Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 54–0 | ||||||
| November 23 | Sewanee | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 17–12 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
Players
Varsity letter winners
"Wearers of the V."[4]
Line
- Bob Blake, Cuero, Texas - end
- Vaughn Blake, Cuero, Texas - end
- Louis Hasslock, Nashville, Tennessee - guard
- J. J. King, end
- Fatty McLain, guard
- Horace Sherrell, guard
- Stein Stone, center
Backfield
- Vin Campbell, St. Louis, Missouri - halfback
- Sam Costen, McKenzie, Tennessee - quarterback
- Honus Craig, Culleoka, Tennessee - halfback
- David Morton, fullback
- Hugh F. Potts, quarterback
Staff
- H. E. Palmer, manager
References
- ↑ "Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport". Boston Daily Globe. April 27, 1924.
- ↑ Dan McGugin (1907). "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide (National Collegiate Athletic Association): 71–75.
- ↑ "Coaching Records Game by Game: Dan McGugin 1907". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ↑ "Wearers of the V". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 8: 237.
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