1898 Sewanee Tigers football team

1898 Sewanee Tigers football
SIAA champion
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record4–0 (3–0 SIAA)
Head coach
CaptainDana Smith
Home stadiumHardee Field
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Sewanee 3 0 0 4 0 0
Auburn 2 0 0 2 1 0
LSU 1 0 0 1 0 0
Georgia 3 1 0 4 2 0
Clemson 1 1 0 3 1 0
Tulane 1 1 0 1 1 0
Vanderbilt 1 2 0 1 5 0
Mississippi 0 1 0 1 1 0
Texas 0 1 0 5 1 0
Nashville 0 2 0 0 2 0
Georgia Tech 0 3 0 0 4 0
Kentucky State# 0 0 0 7 0 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 0 0 0 0 0
SW Presbyterian 0 0 0 0 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • # – State champion

The 1898 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team was coached by John Gere Jayne in his second year as head coach, compiling a record of 4–0 (3–0 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 56 to 4 to win the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. Due to misgivings over Virginia and North Carolina playing ringers, Caspar Whitney declared Sewanee the best team in the South.[1]

  1. ^ Hapgood, Norman (1857). "Harper's weekly". pp. 65 v.