1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
LeagueNCAA
SportCollege football
DurationOctober 1, 1898
through December 14, 1898
Number of teams14
Regular Season
Season championsSewanee
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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 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the members schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1898 college football season. This was the first season Georgia Tech participated in the conference.

The season began on October 1. As both Virginia and Vanderbilt had claims to Southern titles the previous year, their game in Louisville was most anticipated.[1]

W. A. Lambeth said North Carolina had the best season of any southern team. But both Virginia and North Carolina were accused of playing ineligible players, and Caspar Whitney declared Sewanee champion of the south.[2]

Season overview

Results and team statistics

Conf. Rank Team Head coach Conf. record Win Pct. Overall record PPG PAG
1t Sewanee John Gere Jayne 3–0–0 1.000 4–0–0 13.5 1.0
1t Auburn John Heisman 2–0–0 1.000 2–1–0 15.7 15.7
1t LSU Edmond Chavanne 1–0–0 1.000 1–0–0 37.0 0.0
4 Georgia Charles McCarthy 3–1–0 .750 4–2–0 11.7 11.7
5t Clemson John Penton 1–1–0 .500 3–1–0 27.5 5.0
5t Tulane John Lombard 1–1–0 .500 1–1–0 7.0 23.0
7 Vanderbilt R. G. Acton 1–2–0 .333 1–5–0 1.5 10.2
8t Texas David Farragut Edwards 0–1–0 .000 5–1–0 22.3 0.7
8t Mississippi T. G. Scarbrough 0–1–0 .000 1–1–0 9.0 8.0
8t Nashville 0–2–0 .000 0–2–0 0.0 7.5
8t Georgia Tech J. B. Wood 0–3–0 .000 0–4–0 2.0 22.3
– Kentucky State W. R. Bass 0–0–0 – 7–0–0 25.9 0.0
? Cumberland
? Southwestern Presbyterian

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game
t = Tied

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 1 Eastern Kentucky Kentucky State Lexington, KY W 18–0

Week Two

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 8 Kentucky State Georgetown Georgetown, KY W 28–0
October 8 Clemson Georgia Herty Field • Athens, GA UGA 20–8

Week Three

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 15 Company H-8th Massachusetts Kentucky State Lexington, KY W 59–0
October 15 Atlanta A. C. Georgia Herty Field • Athens, GA W 14–0
October 15 Texas TCU Waco, TX W 16–0
October 15 Nashville Sewanee McGee Field • Sewanee, TN SEW 10–0
October 20 Bingham Clemson Calhoun, SC W 55–0

Week Four

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 22 Cincinnati Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN L 10–0
October 22 Georgia Tech Georgia Herty Field • Athens, GA UGA 15–0
October 22 Texas A&M Texas Clark Field • Austin, TX W 48–0

Week Five

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 29 Kentucky State Louisville YMCA Louisville, KY W 16–0
October 29 Galveston H. S. Texas Clark Field • Austin, TX W 17–0
October 29 Vanderbilt Georgia Atlanta, GA UGA 4–0

Week Six

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 5 Centre Kentucky State Lexington, KY W 6–0
November 5 TCU Texas Clark Field • Austin, TX W 29–0
November 5 Georgia Tech Auburn Auburn, AL AUB 29–6
November 5 Nashville Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN VAN 5–0
November 10 Sewanee Texas Clark Field • Austin, TX SEW 4–0 [3]

Week Seven

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 12 Sewanee Southern A. C. Athletic Park • New Orleans, LA W 21–0 [4]
November 12 Vanderbilt Virginia Louisville, KY L 18–0
November 12 160th Indiana Kentucky State Lexington, KY W 17–0
November 12 North Carolina Georgia Macon, GA L 53–0
November 14 North Carolina Auburn Auburn, AL L 29–0
November 17 Clemson South Carolina Columbia, SC W 24–0

Week Eight

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 19 New Castle A. C. Kentucky State Lexington, KY W 36–0

Week Nine

Date Time Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 24 Auburn Georgia Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA AUB 18–17
November 24 Clemson Georgia Tech Augusta, GA CLEM 23–0
November 24 Dallas Texas Clark Field • Austin, TX W 26–0
November 25 Sewanee Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN SEW 19–4

Week Ten

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
December 12 Mississippi Tulane New Orleans, LA TUL 14–9
December 14 LSU Tulane State Field • Baton Rouge, LA LSU 37–0
December 15 St. Thomas Hall Mississippi Oxford, MS W 9–2

All-Southern team

Main article: 1898 College Football All-Southern Team

W. A. Lambeth's All-Southern team:[5]

Position Name Team
QB Frank O. Rogers North Carolina
HB Jim MacRae North Carolina
HB Jack Dye Vanderbilt
FB A. Clarence Jones Georgia
E H. T. Summersgill Virginia
T John Loyd Virginia
G William S. Fitzgerald Vanderbilt
C John L. Templeman Virginia
G James Davis Virginia'
T Frank Bennett North Carolina
E Herman Koehler North Carolina

References

  1. ^ "The Football Teams of the South". The Courier-Journal. October 2, 1898. p. 18. Retrieved August 14, 2008 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Hapgood, Norman (1857). "Harper's weekly". pp. 65 v.
  3. ^ "Sewanee Plays Fine Ball With Texas". The Times-Picayune. November 11, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved July 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Sewanee Makes the Score 21 to 0". The Times-Picayune. November 13, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved July 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ W. A. Lambeth (1899). "Football In The South". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 33: 527.
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