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1891 Sewanee Tigers football team

1891 Sewanee Tigers football
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Conference Independent
1891 record 1–2
Head coach F. G. Sweat (1st year)
Captain Alex Shepherd
Home stadium McGee Field
Seasons
1892 →
1891 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         13 0 0
Harvard         13 1 0
Princeton         12 1 0
Trinity         3 0 0
Wake Forest         1 0 0
Penn         11 2 0
Illinois         5 1 0
Colgate         4 1 0
Army         4 1 1
Stanford         3 1 0
Vanderbilt         3 1 0
Wisconsin         3 1 1
Navy         5 2 0
Cornell         7 3 0
Rutgers         8 6 0
Washington & Jefferson         4 2 0
Virginia         2 1 2
Dartmouth         2 2 1
Washington         1 1 0
Sewanee         1 2 0
USC         1 2 0
Michigan         4 5 0
Colorado         1 4 0
Columbia         1 5 0
California         0 1 0
West Virginia         0 1 0
North Carolina         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 what was 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." He had come from Lawrenceville, NJ, 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.


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