1907 Sewanee Tigers football team explained

Year:1907
Team:Sewanee Tigers
Sport:football
Conference:Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Short Conf:SIAA
Record:8–1
Conf Record:6–1
Head Coach:Arthur G. Erwin
Hc Year:1st
Captain:Walter Barrett
Stadium:Hardee Field

The 1907 Sewanee Tigers football team represented during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team competed in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and was coached by Arthur G. Erwin in his first year as head coach, compiling a record of 8–1 (6–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 250 to 29. Vanderbilt coach Dan 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."[1]

Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown. It was just the second year of the legal forward pass. The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.[2] Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."[3]

Schedule

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Players

Line

Silas WilliamsEndGreenville, South Carolina5'9"15019
Lex StoneTackleFayetteville, Tennessee6'2"17222
Eric CheapeGuardAvon Park, Florida6'1"17021
Thomas EvansCenter6'1"16020
Frank FaulkinberryGuardFayetteville, Tennessee 6'4"19819
William EvansTackleParral, Mexico 5'11"18019
Guy LewisEndDallas, Texas5'11"16522

Backfield

Walter BarrettQuarterbackCovington, TennesseeMooney 5'10"15522
Frank ShippHalfbackChattanooga, Tennessee5'11"17025
Aubrey LanierHalfback5'10"16019
Lawrence MarkleyFullback5'10"16522
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Subs

C. Logan EiseleBackDenver, Colorado6'0"16019
Kenneth LyneBackHenderson, Kentucky5'10"14619
William WilsonEndRock Hill, South Carolina5'10"14422
Heber WadleyLineShreveport, Louisiana6'2"17021
Paul SheppardLine5'11"17023

See also

Notes and References

  1. Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball. 71–75. Dan McGugin. The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 1907. Dan McGugin.
  2. News: Boston Daily Globe. Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport. April 27, 1924. .
  3. News: Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had. Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. March 8, 2015. 52. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: 1907 Sewanee Tigers Schedule and Results. Sports Reference LLC. SR/College Football. December 17, 2023.
  5. News: Tigers Are A Husky Bunch. November 9, 1907. 11. April 11, 2015. Newspapers.com. Atlanta Constitution.