1893 Auburn Tigers football team

1893 Auburn Tigers football
Black & white image illustrating the fall 1892 to spring 1893 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now Auburn University, varsity football team. On the football is written: "93 Champions Ala & Ga.
The fall 1892 through spring 1893 football team of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (now Auburn University).[1][2]
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–1–1
Head coach
CaptainTom Daniels, Rufus T. "Dutch" Dorsey
Seasons
← 1892
1894 →
1893 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryland     6 0 0
Texas     4 0 0
Central (KY)     2 0 0
Howard     2 0 0
North Carolina A&M     2 0 0
Vanderbilt     6 1 0
Auburn     3 0 2
Virginia     8 2 0
Ole Miss     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 0
Trinity (NC)     3 1 0
VMI     3 1 0
Kentucky State College     5 2 1
Delaware     2 1 0
Georgia Tech     2 1 0
Guilford     2 1 0
West Virginia     2 1 0
William & Mary     2 1 0
Navy     5 3 0
Richmond     3 2 0
Georgetown     4 4 0
Sewanee     3 3 0
Furman     1 1 0
Georgia     2 2 1
Western Maryland     1 1 0
Johns Hopkins     2 3 2
North Carolina     3 4 0
Tennessee     2 4 0
Tulane     1 2 0
Wake Forest     1 2 0
Hampden–Sydney     0 1 0
LSU     0 1 0
Maryville (TN)     0 1 0
Mercer     0 1 0
Wofford     0 1 0
VAMC     0 2 0
Alabama     0 4 0

The 1893 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1893 college football season. The squad finished with a record of 3–1–1 and outscored opponents 116–62.

Auburn, then known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, counts the February 22, 1893, game versus Alabama towards the 1893 season, while Alabama counts it toward their 1892 season.[3] Head coach D. M. Balliet led Auburn to a 32–22 victory in the game. George Roy Harvey coached the four games that Auburn played the following fall.

  1. ^ F. Loyd Tate; P. G. Clark; G. M. Holley; C. N. Jones; Paul Vines, eds. (1897), Glomerata 1897 (Annual), vol. 1, Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing, p. 122, archived from the original on July 19, 2011, retrieved March 16, 2011
  2. ^ F. Loyd Tate; P. G. Clark; G. M. Holley; C. N. Jones; Paul Vines, eds. (1897), Glomerata 1897 (Annual), vol. 1, Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing, p. 126, archived from the original on July 19, 2011, retrieved March 16, 2011
  3. ^ Browning, Al (November 23, 1980). "Tide, Tiger differences began many years ago". The Tuscaloosa News. p. B1. Retrieved April 19, 2024 – via Google News Archives.