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1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football
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SIAA champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1897 record 6–0–1 (3–0 SIAA)
Head coach R. G. Acton (2nd year)
Captain Howard Boogher
Home stadium Dudley Field
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
1897 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 3 0 0     6 0 1
Georgia 2 0 0     2 1 0
Auburn 2 0 1     2 0 1
Tennessee 1 0 0     4 1 0
Central 1 1 0     1 1 0
Nashville 1 1 0     1 1 0
Alabama 0 0 0     1 0 0
Texas 0 0 0     6 2 0
LSU 0 0 0     1 1 0
Sewanee 1 2 1     1 3 1
Clemson 0 1 0     2 2 0
Cumberland 0 1 0     0 1 0
Georgia Tech 0 1 0     0 1 0
Mercer 0 1 0     0 1 1
Kentucky State 0 2 0     2 4 0
SW Presbyterian 0 0 0     0 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1 2 Total
Vanderbilt 12 38 50
Kentucky St. 0 0 0
Virginia at Vanderbilt
1 2 Total
Virginia 0 0 0
Vanderbilt 0 0 0
  • Location: Dudley Field
    Nashville, TN
  • Game attendance: 2,400
  • Game weather: Favorable

The 1897 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represent Vanderbilt University during the 1897 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt was in its eighth season of playing football; coached by R. G. Acton. The Commodores finished the season without being scored on. Vanderbilt played in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and won the SIAA Championship, the first claimed in school history.

The season opened with a 22–0 defeat of Kentucky University

On October 16, Vanderbilt had a hard time defeating Central of Kentucky.

The VMI Keydets fell to Vanderbilt 12–0.

Vanderbilt rolled up a 50–0 score over Kentucky State. The starting lineup was Boogher (left end), McAlister (left tackle), Whitemore (left guard), Brown (center), Hassett (right guard), Langhorst (right tackle), Stringfield (right end), Cox (quarterback), Connell (left halfback), Dye (right halfback), Farrell (fullback).

In the second half of the Georgia–Virginia game in Atlanta, a Georgia fullback named Richard Von Albade ("Von") Gammon was fatally injured on a play. The Georgia, Georgia Tech and Mercer football teams soon disbanded. The Atlanta Journal ran a headline; “Death Knell of Football" and the Georgia legislature passed a bill to outlaw football in the state of Georgia. Practically ever other Southern team followed in discontinuing its football program.

On November 6, the Commodores beat the Tar Heels 31–0 .

Vanderbilt beat in-state rival Sewanee 10–0.


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