1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football | |
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Conference | Independent |
1892 record | 4–4 |
Head coach | Elliott H. Jones (3rd year) |
Captain | Elliott H. Jones |
Home stadium | Dudley Field |
The 1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1892 college football season. The team's head coach and team captain was Elliott H. Jones, who served his third and last season in that capacity. This was the first year for Vandy and University of Tennessee to play football also the first year to play at (Old) Dudley Field. The 1892 team was the oldest in the memory of Grantland Rice. He claimed Phil Connell then would be a good player in any era.[1]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
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October 15 | at Sewanee | Hardee Field • Sewanee, TN (Rivalry) | L 4–22 | ||||||
October 21 | Tennessee | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | W 22–4 | ||||||
October 28 | Nashville (Peabody Normal School)* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | W 40–0 | ||||||
November 5 | Washington (MO)* | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | L 4–14 | ||||||
November 12 | Sewanee | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN (Rivalry) | L 14–28 | ||||||
November 17 | at Tennessee | Knoxville, TN (Rivalry) | W 12–0 | ||||||
November 19 | at Georgia Tech | Piedmont Park • Atlanta, GA | W 20–10 | ||||||
November 24 | North Carolina | Dudley Field • Nashville, TN | L 0–24 | ||||||
*Non-conference game. |
References
- ↑ Grantland Rice (November 24, 1937). "Two of Year's Outstanding Games in South This Week". Lincoln Evening Journal. p. 12. Retrieved May 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/vand-m-footbl-sched.html
- ↑ http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/history.html
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