1903 Kentucky University football team

1903 Transylvania Pioneers football
Southern champion
Conference	Independent
1903 record	7–1
Head coach	R. R. Sheffield
Seasons « 1902 1904 »

Indiana at Kentucky University

1 2 Total Indiana 0 5 5 • Kentucky U 0 18 18 Date: November 19, 1903 Location: Lexington, KY

Kentucky University vs. Kentucky State

1 2 Total Kentucky State 0 0 0 • Kentucky U 11 6 17 Date: November 26, 1903 Location: Lexington, KY Game attendance: 3,000

The 1903 Kentucky University Pioneers football team represented Kentucky University, today known as Transylvania, during the 1903 college football season. The team claimed a championship of the south.Nash Buckingham rated Kentucky University and Vanderbilt as best in the south.

A game with Purdue was scheduled; derailed by the Purdue Wreck.

Former Yale quarterback John de Saulles credited end Lois Thompson as playing "a better end than any man in the South." Later Lexington mayor Hogan Yancey was a star fullback on the team.

Kentucky University defeated the Indiana Hoosiers 18 to 5. Zora Clevenger scored Indiana's lone touchdown.

The starting lineup for Kentucky University against Indiana: Simpson (left end), Woodard (left tackle), Ware (left guard), Miller (center), Kelly (right guard), Wallace (right tackle), Thompson (right end), Pyle (quarterback), Cantrill (left halfback), H. Yancey (right halfback), Knight (fullback)

A fear of riots plagued this contest ever since their second-team played Kentucky State.

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