Sewanee Alumni News, 1949

ALUMNI NEWS A Sports History OF Wi\t Hntoersitg of the 3outh BEING A Statistical Compilation of all Inter-Collegiate Athletic Contests in which Sewanee Teams have participated, together with the Names of all Sewanee Athletes. 1875-1948 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE, TENNESSEE fol. XV, No. i February 15, 1949 (§ewanee ^Alumni V\(ews THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI Officers Charles McD. Puckette, '07. .President Sjewamee Alumni News, issued quarterly by the John B. Greer, '08 1st Vice-Pres. Associated Alumni of The University of the ^outh. at Sewanee. Tennessee. Entered as second- Edmund C. Armes, '13 ..2nd Vice-Pres. class matter May 25. 1954.. at the postoffice ar Se- Coleman A. Harwell, '26_3rd Vice-Pres. wanee. Tenn.. under the Act of March 3. 1879. Rev. Lee A. Belford, '35 . -Rec. Sec'y '35 FEBRUARY 15, 1949 Douglas L. Vaughan, Treasurer Arthur Ben Chitty, '35. .Alumni Sec'y t Member American Alumni Council and Editor, Alumni News CONTENTS Introduction: Sports at Sewanee by James Gregg, Jr 3 Sewanee Football Statistics: Dates and Scores of All Games 7 Summary of All Games by Seasons 12 Summary of Records Against College Teams 13 Lettermen in Football: Names of Coaches, Managers, Players 14 Principal Scoring Plays: Runs, Passes, Field Goals 21 Sewanee Ail-Time Football Team: All-Star Selections . 25 Basketball Statistics: Scores of All Games, Lettermen 27 Baseball Statistics: All Recorded Scores, Lettermen 29 Track Records, Meets, and Teams 33 Tennis Records, Meets, and Lettermen 37 Golf Meets and Lettermen 39 Iron Men of Sewanee: The Team of 1899 40 ATHLETIC STAFF— 1948-49 Gordon M. Clark—Director of Athletics William C. White—Head Football Coach Lon S. Varnell—Basketball Coach John D. Bridgers—Track Coach Gaston S. Bruton— Tennis Coach Charles E. Cheston—Golf Coach David E. Frierson—Cross-country Coach John Kennerly— Trainer 1949 GRIDIRON SCHEDULE October 1- —Southwestern at Sewanee October 8 —Millsaps at Jackson, Mississippi October 15 —Mississippi College at Sewanee October 22- —Florida State University at Sewanee October 29- —Centre College at Danville, Kentucky November 5 -—Hampden-Sydney College at Sewanee November 12 —Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio November 19 —Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri For additional information, write, wire or telephone: Arthur Ben Chitty Director of Public Relations The University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee Telephone: Sewanee 4001 SPORTS AT SE¥ANEE BY JAMES GREGG, JR. Sports Staff, The New York Daily News Sewanee, Class of '43 HE written record of Sewanee athletics dates back from Princeton, Herman Suter, one of Princeton's greatest J to 1875. The first printed score extant of an ath- athletes, for the job as coach of the Purple Tigers, and in I letic contest shows Sewanee defeating the Arctics his three years on the mountain, Sewanee won twenty-two 'of Lynchburg, 24-9 in baseball at Tullahoma in the games, while losing three and tying three. summer of that year. It is known, however, that ath- There the continuity ended. In the next seven years, an letics at Sewanee began in 1869, for a picture of the base- era when Sewanee was blessed with great material, six ball team for that year hangs in Gordon Clark's office at different men served as head coach. Not until Harris Cope, the Ormond Simkins Gymnasium. No records of this a member of the 1899 team, returned in 1909 was the head team have been found, and it is possible that it played no coaching post anything more than a year-to-year propo- outside games, but the point remains that Sewanee was sition. Incidentally, Cope was the first Sewanee coach probably the first college or university in the so-called named to a national athletic job, being appointed as a Deep South to organize an athletic team of any sort. member of the National Football Rules Committee for The first recorded score of a contest with Vanderbilt is 1914-15. the baseball game of 1877, won by Sewanee, 19-12. Thus While Sewanee was whimsically hiring and firing its began a rivalry which has continued almost unbroken over coaches, Vanderbilt took quite a different stand. In 1904 a period of seventy years, a long time as athletic rivalries the Commodores hired a young lawyer, a disciple of Field- % go. ing H. Yost of Michigan, Dan McGugin by name. From In contemplating the seemingly phenomenal feats of some that day until his retirement thirty years later, he was to early Sewanee teams, one or two factors should be borne plague Sewanee, for Tiger teams beat the Commodores but in mind. In the favor of Sewanee was the custom it fol- thrice; 1909, 1914, and 1924 in all those thirty years. lowed until 1909 of beginning its school year in the spring, It is interesting to examine the records of other schools continuing through the summer when the mountain-top on the Sewanee schedules of that era to see how they of the Cumberland Plateau region is cool and pleasant, and solved the coaching problem. At Georgia Tech, John W. closing in the fall, in order that students could go home for Heisman came in 1904 and stayed through 1919. Mike a long winter vacation and be with their families at Christ- Donohue was Auburn's head man from 1904 through 1922. mas time. Thus it was that Sewanee athletic teams, par- Vanderbilt, Sewanee, Georgia Tech and Auburn were the ticularly the football teams, could and did begin practise class of the S.IA.A. Only Georgia was able to crack this earlier than other schools. Therefore, a Sewanee team tight-knit combine during this period, and Georgia was frequently entered its season's schedule with from several coached by Alex Cunningham, a McGugin disciple. There days to several weeks advantage in training. was an old saying in the South at the time which went: To offset this advantage, however, there must be remem- "Vanderbilt licks everybody in the South, and Sewanee bered Sewanee's size. For purposes of practical considera- licks everybody but Vanderbilt." That this was literally tion, the college of arts and sciences at Sewanee, out of true can be easily seen by the following paragraph. which came the football teams throughout the years, has In 1903, Sewanee went to Nashville for her last game of averaged in size over a long period between one hundred the season with a total of 174 points to her opponents 0. and two hundred and fifty students. There was one period And who won? Vanderbilt, 10-5. The following year, Se- between 1892 and 1909 when the medical school at Se- wanee again went undefeated to Nashville for its final wanee attracted an additional hundred to two hundred game of the year, this time with 179 points to its opponents students. There was a time during the boom of the late 10. And who won? Vanderbilt, 26-0. In 1906, it was ex- twenties when the student body swelled to three hundred actly the same story. Sewanee went to Nashville for its and sixty. But until the beginning of the second world final game with 211 points to its opponents 5, with its list war, Sewanee's largest enrollment was a little over three of victims including such redoubtables as Georgia Tech, hundred, and its average enrollment was under two hun- 16-0, Auburn, 10-5, Tennessee, 17-0, Tulane, 35-0, and dred. Mississippi, 24-0. But did the Tigers take old Dan's boys? Another factor seems to have been a disadvantage almost No. It was Vandy, 20-0. It seems almost impossible that entirely throughout Sewanee's athletic history. This was such a lamentable habit could continue, but in 1907, Se- its inability to hire and to keep a good coach. It is quite wanee went to Nashville for its annual Thanksgiving affray likely that this fact, year in and year out, ruined many of with the by-then hated Commodores. This time Sewanee Sewanee's chances for a more exalted place, particularly had added Alabama and Georgia to her list of victims, and in the football world. had rolled up 250 points to her opponents total of 10, but At one time Sewanee appeared to be on the right track, Vanderbilt took the turkey, 17-12. In this year, 1907, Se- in the late nineties, J. G. "Lady" Jayne came to the Moun- wanee probably had one of her two greatest squads, the tain from Princeton, and in 1898 developed a highly suc- other being that of 1921. With less than a minute to play, cessful eleven, one which might have become more famous Sewanee leading 12-11, Vandy tossed a triple pass, the than the 1899 team had not Southern football schedules first ever seen in the South, to end probably the saddest been curtailed by the yellow fever epidemic. In 1899, ac- game in Sewanee's history. cepting a very attractive offer at the University of North Though their stays on the Mountain were brief, Sewanee Carolina, Jayne recommended his friend and classmate has had some fine coaches. Suter was the first successful The University of the South the councils of the S.I.A.A. No man was better loved among Southern athletic people than Dr. Benjamin F. Finney, who was intrusted with the guidance of the Uni- versity during the depression. It remained for Alexander Guerry, the late Vice-Chan- Frank Juhan, '11, elected cellor, to set the policy and hew to the line which Sewa- Chancellor in 1944 for a nee now follows. Dr. Guerry's policy of non-subsidized six year term, is one of athletics and his ardent espousal of this cause have begun the all-time greats of Se- to win converts among other colleges in the country faced wanee football.

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