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1920 Tulane Green Wave football team

1920 Tulane Green Wave football
SIAA co-champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1920 record 6–2–1 (5–0 SIAA)
Head coach Clark Shaughnessy
Offensive scheme Single wing
Captain John Wight
Home stadium Second Tulane Stadium
(Capacity: 11,000)
Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
1920 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Georgia + 8 0 0     8 0 1
Georgia Tech + 5 0 0     8 1 0
Tulane + 4 0 0     6 2 1
Alabama 6 1 0     10 1 0
Furman 4 1 0     9 1 0
Auburn 4 2 0     7 2 0
Tennessee 4 2 0     7 2 0
Mississippi A&M 3 2 0     5 3 0
Vanderbilt 3 3 0     4 3 1
Sewanee 2 3 1     4 3 1
Transylvania 1 2 0     1 2 0
Chattanooga 1 3 1     3 4 1
Florida 1 3 0     6 3 0
LSU 1 3 0     5 3 1
Clemson 2 6 0     4 6 1
Mississippi College 1 4 0     3 5 0
Howard 1 5 0     3 5 1
The Citadel 1 5 0     2 6 0
Kentucky 0 3 1     3 4 1
Millsaps 0 2 0     0 2 0
Ole Miss 0 2 0     4 3 0
Georgetown 0 2 0     0 3 0
Mercer 0 4 0     2 7 0
Wofford 0 5 0     0 8 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rice at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
Rice 0 0 0 0 0
Tulane 0 0 0 0 0

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Tulane at Florida
1 2 3 4 Total
Tulane 0 0 7 7 14
Florida 0 0 0 0 0

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Detroit at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
Detroit 7 0 0 0 7
Tulane 0 0 0 0 0

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The 1920 Tulane Green Wave football team represented the Tulane Green Wave of the Tulane University during the 1920 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The 1920 team tied for the SIAA championship with Georgia and Georgia Tech, and was the first called the "Green Wave", after a song titled "The Rolling Green Wave".

In the prior year of 1919, coach Clark Shaughnessy guided Tulane to a then-school record of seven consecutive wins, and had transformed Tulane into a competitor among Southern collegiate teams.

Though he was famous for later using the T formation, at Tulane Shaughnessy employed the single wing. Shaughnessy also introduced to Tulane the Minnesota shift, an innovation created by his former coach Henry L. Williams.

Germany Schulz was hired to take over duties as athletic director.

The season opened with a 79–0 victory over Southwestern Louisiana. One full quarter was played by the substitutes.

The Mississippi College Choctaws and Goat Hale fell to Tulane 29–0.

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The Rice Owls fought Tulane to a scoreless tie in a game shifted to Heinemann Park.

On Oct. 20, 1920, Earl Sparling, the editor of the Tulane Hullabaloo, wrote a football song which was printed in the newspaper. The song was titled "The Rolling Green Wave." Although the name was not immediately adopted, it began to receive acceptance.


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