1904_Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association_football_season

1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League	NCAA
Sport	College football
Duration	September 24, 1904; through December 4, 1904
Number of teams	17
Regular Season
Season champions	Vanderbilt; Auburn
Football seasons
	← 1903 1905 →

1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

Sports season

The 1904 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 1904 college football season. The season began on September 24 with conference member Sewanee hosting the Mooney School.

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1904 saw new coaches Mike Donahue at Auburn and Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt,^[1]^[2] both of which posted undefeated conference records. McGugin remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points. Both McGugin and Donahue were inaugural inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. The SIAA forbade a postseason contest between Auburn and Vanderbilt.^[3]

Also significantly, John Heisman was hired at Georgia Tech.

Season overview

Regular season

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SIAA teams in bold.

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Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG
1 (tie)	Vanderbilt	Dan McGugin	9–0	5–0	52.7	0.4
1 (tie)	Auburn	Mike Donahue	5–0	5–0	19.5	1.8
3	Sewanee	George S. Whitney	7–1	4–1	22.5	4.6
4	Georgia Tech	John Heisman	8–1–1	3–1–1	28.7	3.4
5	Alabama	W. A. Blount	7–3	5–3	10.0	6.2
6 (tie)	Clemson	Shack Shealy	3–3–1	3–2–1	7.1	6.4
6 (tie)	Tulane	Thomas A. Barry	5–2	3–2	8.3	3.4
8	Cumberland	A. L. Phillips	3–1	1–1	43.7
9	Kentucky State	Fred Schacht	9–1	0–0	27.7	1.5
10	Mississippi	M. S. Harvey	4–3	2–3	26.4	15.1
11	LSU	Dan A. Killian	3–4	1–2	5.4	5.4
12	Tennessee	Sax Crawford	3–5–1	1–4–1	5.0	8.6
13	Nashville	H. F. Fisher	1–7–1	0–5–1	4.3	21.0
14 (tie)	Mississippi A&M	Daniel S. Martin	2–5	0–4	14.4	18.0
14 (tie)	Georgia	Charles A. Barnard	1–5	0–4	11.5	11.3

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 1	Tennessee Medical College	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 58–0
October 1	Camp McPherson	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 11–5
October 1	Vanderbilt	Mississippi A&M	Columbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MS	VAN 61–0
October 1	Maryville	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	W 17–0
October 3	Florida Agricultural College	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 29–0

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
October 4		Florida Agricultural College	Auburn	Auburn, AL	W 44–0
October 8	4:00 p . m.	Florida State College	Georgia Tech	Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA	W 35–0	^[5]
October 8		Clemson	Alabama	West End Park • Birmingham, AL	CLEM 18–0
October 8		Florida Agricultural College	Georgia	Macon, GA	W 52–0
October 8		Tennessee Medical College	Nashville	Nashville, TN	L 21–0
October 8		Georgetown (KY)	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 66–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
October 12	Nashville	V. P. I.	Blacksburg, VA	L 32–0
October 15	Alabama	Mississippi A&M	Columbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MS	ALA 6–0
October 15	Auburn	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	AUB 5–0	^[6]
October 15	Mooney	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 51–0
October 15	Nashville	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	T 0–0
October 15	Sewanee	Washington (MO)	St. Louis, MO	W 17–0
October 15	Ole Miss	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 69–0	^[7]
October 16	Louisiana Industrial	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	W 17–0
October 17	Florida Agricultural College	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 77–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
October 22	Nashville	Auburn	Birmingham, AL	AUB 10–0	^[8]
October 22	Georgia	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	CLEM 10–0	^[9]
October 22	Tennessee	Georgia Tech	• Atlanta, GA	GT 2–0	^[10]
October 22	LSU	Shreveport A. C.	Shreveport, LA	W 16–0
October 22	Ole Miss	Mississippi A&M	Columbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MS	MISS 17–5
October 22	Missouri–Rolla	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 29–4
October 23	Louisiana Industrial	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	W 11–0
October 24	Nashville	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	ALA 17–0

1904_Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association_football_season

1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

Season overview

Results and team statistics

Regular season

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

Week Nine

Week Ten

Week Eleven

All-Southern team

References

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v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Vanderbilt +	5	–	0	–	0	9	–	0	–	0
Auburn +	5	–	0	–	0	5	–	0	–	0
Sewanee	4	–	1	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Georgia Tech	3	–	1	–	1	8	–	1	–	1
Alabama	5	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Clemson	3	–	2	–	1	3	–	3	–	1
Tulane	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	2	–	0
Cumberland (TN)	1	–	1	–	0	3	–	1	–	0
Kentucky State	0	–	0	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
Ole Miss	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	3	–	0
LSU	1	–	2	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
Tennessee	1	–	4	–	1	3	–	5	–	1
Nashville	0	–	4	–	1	2	–	5	–	1
Georgia	0	–	4	–	0	1	–	5	–	0
Mississippi A&M	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	5	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
October 26	Georgia	South Carolina	Columbia, SC	W 10–0
October 27	Sewanee	Clemson	Columbia, SC	SEW 11–5
October 29	Georgia Tech	Auburn	Auburn, AL	GT 12–0	^[11]
October 29	Sewanee	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	SEW 12–0	^[11]
October 29	LSU	Louisiana Industrial	Ruston, LA	L 5–0
October 29	Southwestern (TN)	Ole Miss	Oxford, MS	W 114–0
October 29	Mississippi A&M	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	TUL 10–0
October 29	Vanderbilt	Centre	Danville, KY	W 97–0

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
November 5	3:15 p. m.	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	T 11–11	^[12]
November 5		Georgia	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	ALA 16–5
November 5		Maryville	Cumberland	Lebanon, TN	W 45–0
November 5		Ole Miss	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	LSU 5–0
November 5		Sewanee	Texas A&M	Dallas, TX	SEW 17–5
November 5		Tulane	Marion	Marion, AL	W 10–0
November 5		Tennessee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 22–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
November 10	Nashville	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	LSU 16–0
November 11	Tennessee Medical College	Mississippi A&M	Starkville Fairgrounds • Starkville, MS	W 59–0
November 12	Tennessee Medical College	Ole Miss	Jackson, MS	W 42–0
November 12	Auburn	Alabama	West End Park • Birmingham, AL	AUB 29–5	^[13]
November 12	Clemson	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	CLEM 6–0
November 12	Georgia	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 23–6	^[13]
November 12	Sewanee	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	SEW 18–0	^[13]
November 12	Nashville	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 81–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 15	Bethel	Cumberland	Lebanon, TN	W 103–0
November 16	Tennessee Medical College	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 59–0
November 18	Cumberland	Mississippi A&M	Starkville Fairgrounds • Starkville, MS	CUM 27–5
November 19	Ole Miss	Nashville	Memphis, TN	MISS 12–5
November 19	Tennessee	Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	W 23–0
November 19	Vanderbilt	Centre	Danville, KY	W 22–0
November 19	LSU	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	TUL 5–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
November 24	Auburn	Georgia	• Macon, GA	UGA 17–6	^[14]
November 24	Cumberland	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 18–0	^[14]
November 24	Clemson	North Carolina A&M	Raleigh, NC	L 18–0
November 24	Tennessee	Alabama	West End Park • Birmingham, AL	TENN 5–0	^[14]
November 24	Ole Miss	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	TUL 22–0
November 24	Sewanee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 27–0	^[3]
November 25	Louisiana Tech	Mississippi A&M	Starkville Fairgrounds • Starkville, MS	W 32–5

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
December 2	Alabama	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	ALA 11–0
December 3	Alabama	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	ALA 6–0
December 4	Alabama	Pensacola A. C.	Pensacola, FL	W 10–6

Position	Name	Team
QB	John Scarbrough	Sewanee
HB	Honus Craig	Vanderbilt
HB	Willard Steele	Cumberland
FB	Humphrey Foy	Auburn
E	Jones Beene	Tennessee
T	Lob Brown	Georgia Tech
G	Henry D. Phillips	Sewanee
C	Stein Stone	Vanderbilt
G	Innis Brown	Vanderbilt
T	Puss Derrick	Clemson
E	Ed Hamilton	Vanderbilt

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