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Sewanee Tigers football

The Sewanee Tigers football team represents Sewanee: The University of
Sewanee Tigers football
the South in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in Division
III as members of the Southern Athletic Association. 2016 Sewanee Tigers
football team
Three Sewanee Tigers are members of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Henry Seibels, Henry D. Phillips, and Frank Juhan.

Contents
1 History
1.1 Yea, Sewanee's Right! First 1891
2 All-Time Sewanee Tigers football team season
2.1 First team Stadium McGee Field
2.2 Second team
Field Grass
3 References
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Location Sewanee, Tennessee

History Conference Southern Athletic

Association
The Sewanee Tigers were pioneers in American intercollegiate athletics and
Conference 3
possessed the Deep South's preeminent football program in the 1890s.
titles
Ellwood Wilson is considered the "founder of Sewanee football."[2] Their
1899 football team had perhaps the best season in college football history,
Rivalries Vanderbilt
winning all 12 of their games, 11 by shutout, and outscoring their opponents
Commodores
322-10. Five of those wins, all shutouts, came in a six-day period while on a
Tennessee Volunteers
2,500-mile (4,000 km) trip by train. Ten of their twelve opponents, including
Rhodes Lynx
all five of their road trip victims, remain major college football powers to this Colors Purple and Gold[1]
day.[3] 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 Website sewaneetigers.com (h
Crimson Tide as the greatest team of all time.[4] ttp://sewaneetigers.co
m/sports/fball/index)
Sewanee was a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic
Association in 1894, and also a charter member of the Southeastern Conference upon its formation in 1932, but by this
time its athletic program had declined precipitously and Sewanee never won a conference football game in the eight
years it was an SEC member. The Tigers were shut out 26 times in their 37 SEC games, and were outscored by a
combined total of 116384.[3]

When vice chancellor Benjamin Ficklin Finney, who had reportedly objected to Sewanee joining the SEC, left his
position in 1938, the leading candidate was Alexander Guerry, a former president of the University of Chattanooga.
According to a university historian, Guerry agreed to come to Sewanee only if the school stopped awarding athletic
scholarships. In 1940, two years after Guerry's arrival, Sewanee withdrew from the SEC and subsequently deemphasized
varsity athletics. Guerry's stance is sometimes credited as an early step toward the 1973 creation of NCAA Division III,
which prohibits athletic scholarships.[3]

Yea, Sewanee's Right!

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"Yea, Sewanee's Right!" is the surviving last line of an old football cheer: "Rip `em up! Tear `em up! Leave `em in the
lurch. Down with the heathen. Up with the Church.Yea, Sewanee's Right!" The heathen may have been the Methodists
of Vanderbilt which would date the cheer in the 1890s; the cheer was sometimes also used against Hampden-Sydney.[5]
Now used as an alternative motto and often shouted at the end of the Alma Mater. When used with the Alma Mater it is
preceded by the transitional formula of an extended pause followed by "Yea, Sewanee's Right!"

All-Time Sewanee Tigers football team

First team Second team

E Jenks Gillem E Silas Williams
E Delmas Gooch E Rupert Colmore
T Jay Dee Patton T Lex Stone
T Thug Murray T Frank Faulkinberry
G Henry D. Phillips G Laurie Thompson
G Ephraim Kirby-Smith G Bob Taylor Dobbins
C Frank Juhan C George Watkins
QB Chigger Browne QB John Scarbrough
HB Aubrey Lanier HB Frank Shipp
HB Henry Seibels HB Bill Coughlan
FB Ormond Simkins[6] FB Reuben S. Parker

References
1. Sewanee Tigers | Athletics Visual Identity Guidelines (https://www.sewanee.edu/media/offices/marketing--communi
cations/019_15_athletics-brand-identity-guide_v4-(2).pdf) (PDF). Retrieved September 5, 2016.
2. "Founder of Tiger Football Tells How" (https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew08univ#page/n5/mode/2up/sea
rch/Ellwood+quarterback). Sewanee Alumni News. 8 (1): 7. December 1941.
3. Dorsey, Patrick (September 23, 2011). "Sewanee, long-lost member of the SEC" (http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/st
ory/_/id/7001627/sec-expansion-conference-consider-sewanee-long-lost-founding-member). Page 2. ESPN.com.
Retrieved September 29, 2011.
4. Martin, Cam. "Sewanee puffs out chest with historic title - Sports Fans, Teams, Stadiums, Page 2 - Fandom Blog -
ESPN Playbook - ESPN" (http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/2254/sewanee-puffs-out-chest-with-hi
storic-title#comments). Espn.go.com. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
5. "A Sewanee Glossary" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100220191726/http://smith2.sewanee.edu/glossary/Glossary
--Sewanee.html). Archived from the original (http://smith2.sewanee.edu/glossary/Glossary--Sewanee.html) on
February 20, 2010.
6. "Sewanee's All-Time Football Team" (http://www.mocavo.com/Sewanee-Alumni-News-February-1949-Volume-15/9
69199/25). Sewanee Alumni News. February 1949.

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