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Vanderbilt Commodores football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Vanderbilt Commodores football team represents Vanderbilt University in the sport of American football. The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They are currently coached by Derek Mason.
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Vanderbilt plays their home games at Vanderbilt Stadium, located on the university's Nashville, Tennessee campus. History[edit]Head coaching history[edit]Adopting the nickname the Commodores after the 1. In that time, 5 coaches have led the Commodores to a postseason bowl appearance: Art Guepe, Steve Sloan, George Mac. Intyre, Bobby Johnson, and James Franklin. R. G. Acton, W. H.
Watkins, James H. Henry, and Dan Mc.
The Vanderbilt Commodores football team represents Vanderbilt University in the sport of American football. The Commodores compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Vanderbilt's student news source and forum for student opinions. Referees ejected Western Kentucky football player Branden Leston at the 6:23 mark of third quarter Thursday night, after which the defensive back expressed plenty of.
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Gugin. Mc. Gugin is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 1. Vanderbilt. He was awarded 2 National Championships retroactively by Clyde Berryman. Of the 2. 7 different head coaches who have led the Commodores, Mc. Gugin,[2]Ray Morrison,[3]Henry Russell Sanders,[4] and Bill Edwards[5] have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The current head coach is Derek Mason.
Early history (1. Vanderbilt's first football team. Vanderbilt and the University of Nashville played the first college football game in the state of Tennessee in 1. In late 1. 89. 4, Vanderbilt was among the seven founding members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).
Just after the turn of the century, the team enjoyed fairly substantial success, with a composite record of 2. Chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley was known as the "father of Vanderbilt football." Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1. Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president. Most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, and track and field events.[8] Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
The first advance in the direction of its formation was in March 1. Vanderbilt Athletic Association endeavored to secure track and field meets at Vanderbilt from Southwestern Presbyterian University, Sewanee, and Tennessee. Sewanee's opposition stopped it from occurring.[9] On December 2.
SIAA was formed.[1. Vanderbilt played its first football game in 1.
Nashville Athletic Park, against Nashville (Peabody). Vanderbilt won 4. Horace E. Bemis was the leading scorer. Captain and fullback.
Elliott Jones, who had played football before in Boston,[1. Dudley called for a meeting of the Athletic Association, after Peabody had issued a challenge to play a contest on Thanksgiving Day.
He felt the challenge a serious matter; that the pride of the university was at stake.[8] In front of some 1. Dudley explained that if the challenge were met, a new era of athletics would be created with the game of football. From his Kansas City law office many years later Jones remembered: "There followed a general discussion of the whole situation.
The difficulties, particularly the shortness of time for preparation, and the fact that regular football had not been theretofore played at Vanderbilt at all, were dealt upon. Many thought that it would be unfair to ourselves to hazard a contest under the circumstances. We knew that Peabody Normal had been playing intramural football for several years. The predominating note, however, for discussion was that we had never taken anything off Peabody Normal and should not do now. Finally, P. M. (Pat) Estes, then of St.
Louis, made a motion to the effect that the challenge be accepted and that E. H. Jones be authorized and directed to organize and captain a team for the occasion. The motion was unanimously carried."Of Dudley, Elliott Jones said: "Too much cannot be said about Dr. William L. Dudley in connection with early football at Vanderbilt. Since college days his picture has adored my office wall, and when asked by any one who the gentleman is, I always reply, 'The best friend of myself and every other student at Vanderbilt, in my college days.' He went with the team on every trip, and watched over us like a father.
He was our inspiration as well as our guardian. He was our true and loyal friend, under any and all circumstances, in adversity as well in prosperity. I have never known a more lovable, more genuine friend. I cherish the memory of his friendship above all else in my college experience."Vanderbilt's second ever game was the first instance of the Sewanee- Vanderbilt rivalry–at one time the south's oldest rivalry, on November 7, 1. Vanderbilt won 2. Sewanee, Tennessee at Mc.
Gee Field. Mc. Gee Field is the oldest stadium in the south, and fourth oldest in the nation, still in use.[1. Vanderbilt went 3–1 in 1. Sewanee and Washington University of St. Louis. Its first ever loss occurred in that first game against Washington U by a score of 2. Vanderbilt's football stadia have been named after Dudley for practically all of the program's existence. The first Dudley Field was christened on October 2.
Tennessee–Vanderbilt football rivalry. Vanderbilt won, 2. The Vanderbilt Law School presently occupies the old Dudley Field site. A second game against the Vols was played, this time in Knoxville, and Vanderbilt won 1. The quarterback for Vanderbilt that year, William E.
Beard, dubbed the team the Commodores in the Nashville Banner in 1. Commodore" was the sobriquet of the university's namesake, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The 1. 89. 2 season also includes Vanderbilt's first meeting with Georgia Tech. The 1. 89. 2 team was the oldest team in Grantland Rice's memory. He felt Phil Connell then would be a good player in any era.[1. W. J. Keller took over as coach of the 1. Auburn. The includes the first meetings with Centre and rival. Georgia. In 1. 89. Vanderbilt began one of its oldest rivalries: the Vanderbilt- Ole Miss rivalry.[1.
Vanderbilt won 4. The team suffered its only loss when it traveled up Louisville. In 1. 89. 5, the first year of the SIAA, John Heisman's Auburn Tigers scored a touchdown with Reynolds Tichenor on a "hidden ball trick" as the Tigers seemed to run a revolving wedge.[1. Vandy still won 9 to 6 in the first game in the south decided by a field goal.[1.
The 1. 89. 6 team managed just a 3–2–2 record, but defeated rival Sewanee and played Kentucky (then known as Kentucky State) for the first time, a 6–0 win. Caspar Whitney called Phil Connell (pictured) "the South's finest football player.".
John J. Tigert in Vandy football uniform. The 1. 89. 7 team coached by R.
G. Acton won the school's first conference championship, going 3–0 in SIAA play, and may have been the school's best team up to that point. Not a point was a scored on the Commodores. They defeated Kentucky by its largest ever margin, 5.
Virginia had also not lost to a southern team, and faced Vanderbilt in a battle for the south to close the season. The game ended in a scoreless tie. Connell and Lucius E. Burch were prominent members of the Commodores.
Connell was called by Casper Whitney the South's finest football player.[1. The 1. 89. 8 team had a disappointing 1–5 record, including a close loss to Georgia, the first ever to the Bulldogs. Georgia quarterback Kid Huff prevented Wallace Crutchfield, at that time "the biggest man that ever played on the Vanderbilt football team,"[1. Vandy score.[2. 0]Virginia's W. A. Lambeth selected halfback Jack Dye for his All- Southern team. The 1. 89. 9 team was led at quarterback by Frank Godchaux, Sr. Frank Godchaux, Jr.
Vanderbilt football player.[2. Sportswriter Grantland Rice was a letterman on the 1. Vanderbilt did not lose to a southern team and played its first ever match with Texas, but had its season overshadowed by Sewanee's "Iron Men" squad. Lambeth selected Crutchfield All- Southern, and Sewanee coach Billy Suter selected end Walter Simmons such. The 1. 90. 0 season included a lackluster 4–4–1 record and a rematch at Fair Park in Dallas with Texas at the State Fair. The 1. 90. 1 team clinched the SIAA title when it defeated University of Nashville (Peabody) 1.
Thanksgiving Day. The 1. 90. 1 Nashville team was arguably the best in its history; it defeated Sewanee 3. A riot broke out downtown the next day.
According to the account of the event in the Nashville Banner (repudiated in the Hustler), the trouble started when a number of Vanderbilt students "tried to paint the stone fence of the University of Nashville yellow and black."[2. The 1. 90. 1 team also defeated Georgia by the largest margin of victory in the history of the contest, 4. The 1. 90. 2 team defeated all opponents except for Sewanee. John Edgerton starred in the backfield. The 1. 90. 3 season opened with an upset loss to Cumberland, but closed strong, including a victory over Sewanee. This season was also the first in which Vandy played Alabama. Nash Buckingham said Vanderbilt and Kentucky University (today Transylvania) should rank best in the south.[2.
Vanderbilt had two All- Southerns and Rhodes Scholars in Bob Blake and John J. Tigert. Tigert was the first Rhodes Scholar ever from Tennessee. Later a prominent coach and educator, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Dan Mc. Gugin era (1. Dan Mc. Gugin's arrival as coach from his brother- in- law Fielding H.
Yost's Michigan program in 1. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff once wrote "The plain facts of the business are that Mc.
Gugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput. There was no foeman worthy of the Mc. Gugin steel. ” The Vanderbilt athletics office building, the Mc. Gugin Center, bears his name.
Mc. Gugin was also named to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class; and the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.[2. Fred Russell wrote of Mc. Gugin: For years he ruled supreme in Dixie, and his teams won many glorious intersectional victories.
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