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1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

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League
  
NCAA

Number of teams
  
16

Sport
  
College football

Season champions
  
Vanderbilt

Duration
  
September 28, 1907 through December 25, 1907

The 1907 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 1907 college football season. The season began on September 28 with conference member Clemson hosting Gordon.

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Vanderbilt gave a shock to the football world by tying Eastern power Navy 6–6. The Commodores also beat Georgia Tech by the largest margin in coach John Heisman's tenure, and beat a powerful Sewanee team on a double pass play which Grantland Rice called the greatest thrill in his years of watching sports. Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South." Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a might good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."The only loss suffered all season for Vanderbilt was to Western power Michigan.

LSU played the University of Havana in Cuba, the first time any Southern team played in a foreign country.

Regular season

SIAA teams in bold.

All-Americans

  • E - Bob Blake, Vanderbilt (FY-1, AFR)
  • C - Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (AFR)
  • All-Southern team

    The consensus All-Southern team:

    References

    1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season Wikipedia