1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
LeagueNCAA
SportCollege football
DurationOctober 6, 1899
through December 25, 1899
Number of teams17
Regular Season
Season championsSewanee
Football seasons
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1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Sewanee $ 11 0 0 12 0 0
Vanderbilt 5 0 0 7 2 0
Alabama 1 0 0 3 1 0
Nashville 4 1 0 4 1 1
Tennessee 2 1 0 6 2 0
Auburn 2 1 1 3 1 1
Texas 3 2 0 6 2 0
North Carolina 1 1 0 7 3 0
Ole Miss 3 4 0 3 4 0
Georgia 2 3 1 2 3 1
Clemson 1 2 0 4 2 0
Central (KY) 1 2 0 1 2 0
LSU 1 3 0 1 4 0
Kentucky State 0 1 0 5 2 2
SW Presbyterian 0 1 0 1 1 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 3 0 0 3 0
Georgia Tech 0 5 0 0 6 0
Tulane 0 5 0 0 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1899 college football season.

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. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw."[1] The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."[2]

  1. ^ "Grantland Rice". Reading Eagle. November 27, 1941.
  2. ^ Patrick Dorsey (September 23, 2011). "Sewanee, long-lost member of the SEC". Archived from the original on January 11, 2016.