Season summary 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1 season summary

1.1 middle tennessee state normal
1.2 southwestern
1.3 georgetown
1.4 cumberland
1.5 henderson-brown
1.6 ole miss
1.7 tennessee
1.8 virginia
1.9 auburn
1.10 sewanee

season summary
middle tennessee state normal


date: september 26
location: dudley field

nashville, tennessee
referee: ed hamilton


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using conventional football, vanderbilt opened season easy win on middle tennessee normal (mtsu) 51–0. coach mcgugin sent in substitutes @ beginning of fourth quarter. starting lineup richardson (left end), cody (left tackle), reyer (left guard), williams (center), putnam (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), zerfoss (left halfback), wiggs (right halfback), , king (fullback).

southwestern

in second week of play, vanderbilt defeated southwestern 47–0 on slippery field. points scored in first half.

georgetown


date: october 9
location: dudley field

nashville, tennessee
referee: bradley walker


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vanderbilt beat georgetown tigers 75–0. commodores racked 11 touchdowns , 8 field goals, largest score in 3 years. dough ray scored 4 times , hubert wiggs 3 times. starting lineup williams (left end), cody (left tackle), hamilton (left guard), reyer (center), lipscomb (right guard), putnam (right tackle), hayes (right end), curry (quarterback), friel (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

cumberland


date: october 13
location: dudley field

nashville, tennessee
referee: hord boensch


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with 4 players out due injury, commodores still managed defeat cumberland bulldogs 60–0 in drizzling rain. ray again scored 4 touchdowns. alf adams stood out on defense. starting lineup chester (left end), cody (left tackle), williams (left guard), reyer (center), hamilton (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), richardson (right end), roach (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), ray (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

rabbit curry piloted point-a-minute commodores.


henderson-brown


date: october 16
location: dudley field

nashville, tennessee
referee: bradley walker


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the commodores beat henderson-brown 100–0. rabbit curry ran 40-yard touchdown game barely minute old, , later had 40-yard punt return touchdown. sarah turner had 80-yard run, , 60-yard end run score in third quarter. tommy ridley ran 60 yards on fake punt. catching henderson-brown exhausted, john jarrett returned kickoff 85 yards touchdown in fourth quarter. starting lineup y. chester (left end), cody (left tackle), hamilton (left guard), reyer (center), williams (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), ray (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

ole miss

against mississippi, team traveled train nashville memphis, tennessee, game played. train halted near dickson wreck ahead of it, , players complained lack of food on train. team s manager james stahlman foraged through neighboring orchards near tracks , picked 3 or 4 hatfuls of green apples. curry ate several of them, , proceeded score 6 touchdowns , kick 8 points against ole miss. final score 91–0. starting lineup hayes (left end), cody (left tackle), williams (left guard), reyer (center), putnam (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

tennessee


date: october 30
location: dudley field

nashville, tennessee
game start: 2:45 p. m.


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the tennessee volunteers first real test commodores, coming nashville southern intercollegiate athletic association (siaa) defending champions , loaded confidence. swamped, 35–0 curry , turner ran several yards. curry once got away 50 yards, touchdown of first half. in third quarter, johnny floyd ripped off 47 yards , hubert wiggs took over.

then turner entered game , first run 35 yards 6-yard line, wiggs again scored. next time ran 60 yards himself touchdown, , last score came on 20-yard dash cutter northcutt, curry s substitute. victory overshadowed unfortunate spine injury bennett jared, died few months later. starting lineup adams (left end), cody (left tackle), williams (left guard), reyer (center), putnam (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

virginia s buck mayer (pictured) south s first consensus all-american.


virginia


date: november 6
location: charlottesville, virginia
referee: barry (georgetown)


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the commodores ended tennessee game 7–0 record, having racked 459 points no points scored against them. road game @ charlottesville, virginia face university of virginia next on schedule. high-flying commodores overwhelmed, 10–35 cavaliers. virginia gained 495 yards vanderbilt s 198. buck mayer, south s first consensus all-american, starred virginia.

zerfoss entered game injury. curry ran 80 yards score touchdown on fumbled punt. cody booted 20-yard field goal other commodores score. vanderbilt manage 5 first downs in contest. starting lineup adams (left end), lipscomb (left tackle), putnam (left guard), reyer (center), williams (right guard), cody (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

auburn


date: november 13
location: rickwood field

birmingham, alabama
referee: bradley walker


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next auburn game, mcgugin had been pointing since before season began, auburn had dominated southern football past 2 seasons, without single team crossing line. game played in birmingham @ rickwood field.

vanderbilt jumped out 17–0 lead on rain-soaked field. curry pass captain cohen opened scoring. josh cody took on himself point. in 1 of greatest exhibitions of punt covering, cody smothered receiver every time, recovering 2 fumbles, 1 across goal line touchdown. then, in last ten seconds of play, cody drop kicked three-pointer 33-yard line. tom zerfoss , friel punted well. curry s leadership superb, , late in game vanderbilt line rose 1 throw 3 auburn charges on five-yard line. starting lineup hayes (left end), cody (left tackle), williams (left guard), reyer (center), hamilton (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

sewanee

the final game of season 8–1 commodores on thanksgiving day in nashville against rival sewanee. siaa championship @ stake. shutout on men mountain complete siaa schedule of being unscored upon. thoroughly outplayed first 2 quarters captain bob dobbins , hek clark led tiger attack, intermission found commodores behind 3–0, result of red herring s field goal 20-yard line.

josh cody selected third-team all-american.

dan mcgugin took team on engineering hall little talk. commodores came playing hard, @ start of fourth quarter score still 3–0. sustained drive got underway ended dough ray plunging in touchdown four-yard line. tom lipscomb , cody blocked punt , pud reyer recovered on five-yard line. again ray scored. later zerfoss skirted end 26 yards, , curry followed 34-yard dash , third touchdown.

curry hurt terrible pounding sewanee, still managed top run of day, 80 yards touchdown cody clearing path. final count 28–3, , siaa championship. sewanee coach harris cope said: think curry 1 of greatest players have ever seen. starting lineup hayes (left end), cody (left tackle), williams (left guard), reyer (center), hamilton (right guard), lipscomb (right tackle), cohen (right end), curry (quarterback), floyd (left halfback), zerfoss (right halfback), , wiggs (fullback).

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