Year: | 1894 |
Team: | Vanderbilt Commodores |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 7–1 |
Head Coach: | Henry Worth Thornton |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Captain: | W. J. Keller |
Stadium: | Dudley Field |
The 1894 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team's head coach was Henry Worth Thornton, who only coached one season in that capacity at Vanderbilt.
In the third game of the season, against the Louisville Athletic Club, bad officiating calls against Vanderbilt lead to team captain W. J. Keller to pull his team off the field before the game was over in the second half and resulted in an 10–8 loss.
The game was away in Louisville with a crowd of over 500 persons. The Nashville American gave this report: