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1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football
SIAA champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1907 record 5–1–1 (4–0 SIAA)
Head coach Dan McGugin (4th year)
Offensive scheme Short-punt
Captain Bob Blake
Home stadium Dudley 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
Vanderbilt at Navy
1 2 Total
Vanderbilt 0 6 6
Navy 6 0 6
Michigan at Vanderbilt
1 2 Total
Michigan 8 0 8
Vanderbilt 0 0 0
Sewanee at Vanderbilt
1 2 Total
Sewanee 6 6 12
Vanderbilt 11 6 17

The 1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his fourth season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played five home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record 5–1–1 and 4–0 in SIAA.

Vanderbilt gave a shock to the football world by tying Eastern power Navy 6–6. The Commodores also beat Georgia Tech by the largest margin in coach John Heisman's tenure, and beat a powerful Sewanee team on a double pass play which Grantland Rice called the greatest thrill in his years of watching sports. The only loss suffered all season was to Western power Michigan.

Vanderbilt opened the season with a 40–0 defeat of Kentucky State, boosting morale.

The starting lineup against Kentucky State: V. Blake (left end), McLain (left tackle), Sherrill (left guard), Stone (center), King (right guard), Hasslock (right tackle), B. Blake (right end), Costen (quarterback), Campbell (left halfback), Craig (right halfback), Morton (fullback).

The Commodores held the Navy team to a 6–6 tie in one of the highlights of the season. McGugin proved prophetic; before the game he said "We have an even chance with the Navy." The Nashville papers said Vandy should've won, and Grantland Rice criticized the officiating, as did coach McGugin. Navy's captain Tootsie Douglas called the tie "the bitterest pill I have ever had to swallow."


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