1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game

1906 Carlisle Indians vs. Vanderbilt Commodores football game
12 Total
Carlisle 00 0
Vanderbilt 40 4
DateNovember 22, 1906
Season1906
StadiumDudley Field
LocationNashville, Tennessee
RefereeMike Thompson

The 1906 Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt football game, played November 22, 1906, was a college football game between the Carlisle Indians and Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt defeated the northern school by a single, 17-yard Bob Blake field goal,[1] Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin described the win as "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season."[2] The 1906 Vanderbilt team had one of the greatest seasons in school history, once rated by Innis Brown as the best the South ever had.[3]

  1. ^ "Vanderbilt Beats Carlisle". Daily Press. November 23, 1906. Retrieved March 24, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Dan McGugin (1907). "Football In Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 49.
  3. ^ "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