1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
LeagueNCAA
SportCollege football
DurationSeptember 28, 1901
through December 5, 1901
Number of teams14
Regular Season
Season championsVanderbilt
Football seasons
← 1900
1902 →
1901 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Vanderbilt $ 4 0 0 6 1 1
Clemson 2 0 1 3 1 1
LSU 2 1 0 5 1 0
North Carolina 2 1 0 7 2 0
Tulane 2 1 0 4 2 0
Alabama 2 1 2 2 1 2
Auburn 2 2 1 2 3 1
Tennessee 1 1 2 3 3 2
Mississippi A&M 1 2 0 2 2 1
Georgia 0 3 2 1 5 2
Cumberland (TN) 0 1 0 0 3 0
Kentucky State 0 2 0 2 6 1
Ole Miss 0 4 0 2 4 0
Texas 0 0 0 8 2 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1901 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 1901 college football season. The season began on September 28.

Amidst charges of professionalism, Georgia Tech and Nashville were blacklisted.[1][2][3] The 1901 game of LSU versus Tulane eventually ended up as a forfeiture. Tulane forfeited the game the November 16 due to a ruling from the SIAA. The 1901 edition of the Battle for the Flag against LSU was originally a 22-0 victory for Tulane. It was later forfeited after a petition to the SIAA, and was recorded as a 0-11 loss for Tulane. After the game, LSU protested to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and alleged that Tulane had used a professional player during the game. Several months later, the SIAA ruled the game an 11-0 forfeit in favor of LSU.[4]

The 1901 team was likely the best football team in Nashville's history. Coached by Charley Moran, though they lost to southern power Vanderbilt, they "mopped up with about everything else."[5]

  1. ^ "Will Meet At Chapel Hill". Asheville Citizen. December 11, 1901. p. 4. Retrieved August 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "Athletic Blacklist Has Widespread Effect". The Charlotte News. December 14, 1901. p. 11. Retrieved August 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Fight Is Against Professionalism". Atlanta Constitution. December 22, 1901. p. 11. Retrieved August 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Tulane Football History". Archived from the original on December 26, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  5. ^ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon