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1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football
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SIAA co-champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1904 record 9–0 (4–0 SIAA)
Head coach Dan McGugin (1st year)
Offensive scheme Short-punt
Captain Irish Graham
Home stadium Dudley Field
Seasons
« 1903 1905 »
1904 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt + 5 0 0     9 0 0
Auburn + 5 0 0     5 0 0
Kentucky State 2 0 0     9 1 0
Texas 1 0 0     6 2 0
Sewanee 4 1 0     7 1 0
Georgia Tech 2 1 1     8 1 1
Alabama 5 3 0     7 3 0
Tulane 3 2 0     5 2 0
Clemson 3 2 1     3 3 1
Mississippi 2 3 0     4 3 0
LSU 1 2 0     3 4 0
Tennessee 1 4 1     3 5 1
Nashville 1 5 1     1 7 1
Cumberland 0 1 0     2 1 0
Texas A&M 0 2 0     4 2 0
Mississippi A&M 0 4 0     2 5 0
Georgia 0 4 0     1 5 0
Central 0 4 0     1 7 0
SW Presbyterian 0 0 0     0 0 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Missouri Mines at Vanderbilt
1 2 Total
Missouri 4 0 4
Vanderbilt 29 0 29
  • Date: October 22
  • Location: Curry Field • Nashville, TN
  • Referee: Bradley Walker

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Nashville vs. Vanderbilt
1 2 Total
Nashville 0 0 0
Vanderbilt 40 41 81
  • Date: November 12
  • Location: Curry Field • Nashville, TN
  • Game attendance: 2,500
  • Referee: Z. N. Estes

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The 1904 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his first season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record of 9–0.

The 1904 Vanderbilt team scored an average of 52.7 points per game, the most in college football that season, and allowed just four points, all surrendered in their game against Missouri-Rolla. The team had a strong claim to the Southern championship, as the elevens of Georgetown and Virginia played few southern schools.

The Commodores hired former Michigan guard Dan McGugin, a protege and son-in-law of Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost. Like Yost, McGugin utilized a short punt formation. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff once wrote "The plain facts of the business are that McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput... There was no foeman worthy of the McGugin steel.”

Vanderbilt alumnus Myles P. O'Connor wrote of Dan Blake, who "played left half for Vanderbilt, '04, being taken from left end, which position he played in '03. End is his position; he is heavy, weighing about 170, is fast, a good tackler, advances the ball well, and is a fair punter."

In his first career game, McGugin's team defeated Mississippi A&M, 61–0. He went on to win his next two games by 60 points as well. He remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points.


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