1891 Sewanee Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–2
Head coach
  • F. G. Sweat (1st season)
CaptainAlex Shepherd
Home stadiumHardee Field
1891 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Trinity (NC)    3 0 0
Wake Forest    1 0 0
VMI    3 0 1
Vanderbilt    3 1 0
Navy    5 2 0
Virginia    2 1 2
Delaware    5 3 1
Kentucky State College    1 1 0
Georgetown    2 2 0
Sewanee    1 2 0
Central (KY)    0 1 0
Furman    0 1 0
Tennessee    0 1 0
West Virginia    0 1 0
Johns Hopkins    0 2 0
Mercer    0 2 0
North Carolina    0 2 0
Richmond    0 2 0

The 1891 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1891 college football season. In the inaugural season of Sewanee football, the Tigers compiled a 1–2 record. The team's quarterback was Ellwood Wilson, considered the "founder of Sewanee football."[1] He had come from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he played football before, to Sewanee in 1889. While introducing the sport to Sewanee, he was forced to use a piece of wood shaped like a football until he found a real one. Sewanee's first intercollegiate game was the first instance of the Sewanee–Vanderbilt rivalry and Vanderbilt's second ever game. The win over Tennessee was that program's first game.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 7VanderbiltL 0–22[2]
November 21at TennesseeChattanooga, TNW 26–0[3]
November 26at VanderbiltL 4–26[4]

References

  1. "Founder of Tiger Football Tells How". Sewanee Alumni News. 8 (1): 7. December 1941.
  2. "Vanderbilt defeats Sewanee rather handily on the latters' grounds". Nashville Banner. November 9, 1891. Retrieved March 25, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "The Sewanee team defeats the Knoxville eleven in this city yesterday". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 22, 1891. Retrieved July 8, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Vanderbilt wins; Sewanee goes under by the score of 26 to 4". The Daily American. November 27, 1891. Retrieved March 25, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
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