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The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 team was one of its best. The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and lost none, outscored opponents 322–10, and ...
In 2012, the College Football Hall of Fame held a vote of the greatest historic teams of all time, where the 1899 Iron Men beat the 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide as the greatest team of all time. [4] Sewanee was a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, and also a charter member of the Southeastern Conference ...
Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899 is a documentary film and book that chronicles Sewanee: the University of the South's undefeated 1899 football team. [1] This story has all the hallmarks of legend and fiction, yet as Sewanee Vice-Chancellor, John McCardell, noted: "It's more than lore, it's true."
The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions. [ 1 ] Chicago , Kansas , and Sewanee went undefeated.
A documentary film about the team and Seibels' role was released in 2022, called "Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899." [circular reference] Seibels also captained the baseball team that year; and it too went undefeated. [6] He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973, and is also
The season began on October 6, 1899 with Vanderbilt visiting Cumberland. Sewanee won the conference with 11 conference victories. With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss.
Bartlet et Ultimus "The Caboose" Sims (May 9, 1878 – January 6, 1934) was an All-Southern [1] college football end for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South, a member of its 1899 "Iron Men". He also kicked the extra points; his 11 extra points against Cumberland is still a school record. [2]
Both teams' histories feature some powerhouses of early Southern football, e.g. 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team and 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team. It was the oldest of Vanderbilt's rivalries; dating back to 1891 when Vanderbilt played its second ever football game and Sewanee played its first. [1] Vanderbilt leads the series 40–8 ...