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1891 Sewanee Tigers football team

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1891 Sewanee Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–2
Head coach
CaptainAlex Shepherd
Home stadiumHardee Field
Seasons
1892 →
1891 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Trinity (NC)     3 0 0
Wake Forest     1 0 0
VMI     3 0 1
Vanderbilt     3 1 0
Navy     5 2 0
Virginia     2 1 2
Delaware     5 3 1
Kentucky State College     1 1 0
Georgetown     2 2 0
Sewanee     1 2 0
Central (KY)     0 1 0
Furman     0 1 0
Tennessee     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

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.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 7VanderbiltL 0–22[2]
November 21at TennesseeChattanooga, TNW 26–0[3]
November 26at VanderbiltL 4–26[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Founder of Tiger Football Tells How". Sewanee Alumni News. 8 (1): 7. December 1941.
  2. ^ "Vanderbilt defeats Sewanee rather handily on the latters' grounds". Nashville Banner. November 9, 1891. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "The Sewanee team defeats the Knoxville eleven in this city yesterday". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 22, 1891. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Vanderbilt wins; Sewanee goes under by the score of 26 to 4". The Daily American. November 27, 1891. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.