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1907 Sewanee Tigers football team

1907 Sewanee Tigers football
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Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1907 record 8–1 (6–1 SIAA)
Head coach Arthur G. Erwin
Captain Walter Barrett
Home stadium McGee Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 3 0 0     5 1 1
Sewanee 6 1 0     8 1 0
Alabama 3 1 2     5 1 2
Tennessee 3 2 1     7 2 1
Auburn 3 2 1     6 2 1
LSU 2 2 0     7 3 0
Georgia Tech 3 4 0     4 4 0
Georgia 2 3 1     4 3 1
Mississippi A&M 2 3 0     6 3 0
Clemson 1 3 0     4 4 0
Mercer 0 3 0     3 3 0
Ole Miss 0 5 0     0 6 0
Nashville            
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1907 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team competed in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and was coached by Arthur G. Erwin in his 1st year as head coach, compiling a record of 8–1 (6–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 250 to 29. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a might good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."

Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown. It was just the second year of the legal forward pass. The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."


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