1899 Sewanee Tigers football team

1899 Sewanee Tigers football
SIAA champion
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1899 record	12–0 (11–0 SIAA)
Head coach	Billy Suter
Captain	Diddy Seibels
Home stadium	McGee Field
Seasons ← 1898 1900 →

1899 SIAA football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Sewanee $	11	–	0	–	0			12	–	0	–	0
Vanderbilt	4	–	0	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
Alabama	1	–	0	–	0			3	–	1	–	0
Nashville	3	–	1	–	0			3	–	1	–	0
Tennessee	2	–	1	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Auburn	2	–	1	–	1			3	–	1	–	1
Texas	3	–	2	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Georgia	2	–	2	–	1			2	–	3	–	1
Central	1	–	1	–	0			1	–	1	–	0
Mississippi	3	–	4	–	0			3	–	4	–	0
Clemson	1	–	2	–	0			4	–	2	–	0
LSU	1	–	3	–	0			1	–	4	–	0
Kentucky State	0	–	1	–	0			5	–	2	–	2
SW Presbyterian	0	–	1	–	0			1	–	1	–	0
Cumberland	0	–	3	–	0			0	–	3	–	0
Georgia Tech	0	–	5	–	0			0	–	5	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	0			0	–	6	–	1
$ – Conference champion

Sewanee at Georgia

1 2 Total • Sewanee 6 6 12 Georgia 0 0 0 Date: October 21 Location: Piedmont Park Atlanta, GA Game start: 1:00 p. m. Sources:

Sewanee at Georgia Tech

1 2 Total • Sewanee 27 5 32 Ga. Tech 0 0 0 Date: October 23 Location: Piedmont Park Atlanta, GA Game start: 3:30 p. m. Referee: Rowbotham Sources:

Tennessee vs. Sewanee

1 2 Total Tennessee 0 0 0 • Sewanee 29 17 46 Date: October 28 Location: McGee Field Sewanee, TN Sources:

SW Presbyterian vs. Sewanee

1 2 Total SW Presbyterian 0 0 0 • Sewanee 32 22 54 Date: November 3 Location: McGee Field Sewanee, TN Referee: Elsom Sources:

Sewanee at Texas

1 2 Total • Sewanee 6 6 12 Texas 0 0 0 Date: November 9 Location: Athletic Field Austin, Texas Game attendance: 2,500 Sources:

Sewanee at Texas A&M

1 2 Total • Sewanee 5 5 10 Texas A&M 0 0 0 Date: November 10 Location: Herald Park Houston, Texas Game attendance: 600 Referee: Killerin (Georgia) Sources:

Sewanee at Tulane

1 2 Total • Sewanee 17 6 23 Tulane 0 0 0 Date: November 11 Location: New Orleans, LA Game start: 4:00 p. m. Game attendance: ~1,000 Referee: E. L. Simonds Sources:

Sewanee at LSU

1 2 Total • Sewanee 17 17 34 LSU 0 0 0 Date: November 13 Location: State Field Baton Rouge, LA Game attendance: 2,000+ Sources:

The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 team in particular was very strong. The 1899 Tigers went 12–0, outscoring opponents 322 to 10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title.

With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over: Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw." The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."

The 11 extra points against Cumberland by Bart Sims is still a school record. The offense was led by Diddy Seibels; the defense by Ormond Simkins.John Heisman's Auburn team was the only one even to score on Sewanee.

Despite being from a small Episcopal university in the mountains of Tennessee, the team came to dominate football in the region during the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like several other football powers of yore such as the University of Chicago, Sewanee today emphasizes scholarship over athletics.

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