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The 1907 Sewanee Tigers football team represented
Sewanee: The University of the South 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."
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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.
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Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."
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See also
References
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Dan McGugin (1907).
"Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball" . The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide . National Collegiate Athletic Association: 71–75.
^ "Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport". Boston Daily Globe . April 27, 1924.
ProQuest
497709192 .
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"Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had" . Atlanta Constitution . February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Sewanee took football game" . The Chattanooga News . September 28, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Sewanee trounces Mississippi" . The Nashville American . October 11, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Sewanee defeats Auburn after a great struggle" . Birmingham Age-Herald . October 20, 1907. Retrieved March 13, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Sewanee ran over Alabama" . Nashville Banner . October 22, 1907. Retrieved February 16, 2021 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Sewanee met easy mark; Mississippi beaten 65 to 0" . The Commercial Appeal . October 27, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"In Rain And Mud Sewanee Triumphs" .
The Nashville American .
Nashville, Tennessee . November 3, 1907. p. 8. Retrieved October 25, 2021 – via
Newspapers.com
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"Sewanee defeats Georgia Tech" . The Atlanta Constitution . November 10, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Georgia fought gamely" . The Atlanta Journal . November 12, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Close, exciting contest; Sewanee defeated by Vanderbilt" . The Times-Democrat . November 29, 1907. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"1907 Sewanee Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 17, 2023 .
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"Tigers Are A Husky Bunch" . Atlanta Constitution . November 9, 1907. p. 11. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via
Newspapers.com .
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