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1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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1899 record
  
7–2 (4–0 SIAA)

Captain
  
Walter H. Simmons

Head coach
  
J. L. Crane (1st year)

Home stadium
  
Dudley Field

1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

Conference
  
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

The 1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Commodores were coached by James L. Crane, in his first year as head coach. Quarterback Frank Godchaux, the father of Frank Godchaux, Jr., from Abbeville, Louisiana, who transferred from LSU to Vanderbilt in 1897, lettered this year in football. After football, he became a self-made business magnate of a successful rice milling company. Grantland Rice lettered at end.

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