1907 Sewanee Tigers football team explained
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]
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Notes and References
- 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.
- News: Boston Daily Globe. Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport. April 27, 1924. .
- News: Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had. Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. March 8, 2015. 52. Newspapers.com.
- Web site: 1907 Sewanee Tigers Schedule and Results. Sports Reference LLC. SR/College Football. December 17, 2023.
- News: Tigers Are A Husky Bunch. November 9, 1907. 11. April 11, 2015. Newspapers.com. Atlanta Constitution.