1891 Sewanee Tigers football team

The 1891 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1891 college football season. In the inaugural season of Sewanee football, the Tigers compiled a 1–2 record. The team's quarterback was Ellwood Wilson, considered the "founder of Sewanee football."[1] He had come from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he played football before, to Sewanee in 1889. While introducing the sport to Sewanee, he was forced to use a piece of wood shaped like a football until he found a real one. Sewanee's first intercollegiate game was the first instance of the Sewanee–Vanderbilt rivalry and Vanderbilt's second ever game. The win over Tennessee was that program's first game.

1891 Sewanee Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
1891 record1–2
Head coachF. G. Sweat (1st season)
CaptainAlex Shepherd
Home stadiumHardee Field
1891 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Trinity (NC)      3 0 0
Wake Forest      1 0 0
Vanderbilt      3 1 0
Navy      5 2 0
Virginia      2 1 2
Delaware      5 3 1
Georgetown      2 2 0
Sewanee      1 2 0
Central      0 1 0
Furman      0 1 0
Kentucky State College      0 1 0
West Virginia      0 1 0
Johns Hopkins      0 2 0
Mercer      0 2 0
North Carolina      0 2 0
Richmond      0 2 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
November 7VanderbiltL 0–22
November 21at TennesseeChattanooga, TNW 26–0
November 26at VanderbiltL 4–26

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References

  1. "Founder of Tiger Football Tells How". Sewanee Alumni News. 8 (1): 7. December 1941.
  2. "2004 Sewanee football media guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-09.
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