1894 Vanderbilt Commodores football team explained

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.

Game summaries

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.

Louisville Athletic Club

The game was away in Louisville with a crowd of over 500 persons. The Nashville American gave this report: