1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
	$ – Conference champion;

1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football
1899 Vanderbilt Commodores football
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1899 record	7–2 (5–0 SIAA)
Head coach	James L. Crane (1st season);
Captain	Walter H. Simmons
Home stadium	Dudley Field
	Seasons ← 1898 1900 →

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.^[1] After football, he became a self-made business magnate of a successful rice milling company.^[2] Grantland Rice lettered at end.^[3]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6	at Cumberland (TN)	Cumberland, TN	W 32–0
October 13	Miami (OH)*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 12–0
October 20	Cincinnati*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 0–6
October 28	Indiana*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 0–22
November 4	vs. Ole Miss	Memphis, TN (rivalry)	W 11–0
November 11	Bethel (TN)*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 22–0
November 18	Texas	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 6–0
November 25	Central (KY)	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 21–16
November 30	Nashville	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 5–0
*Non-conference game

^ Couch, Ernie (2001). SEC Football Trivia. Thomas Nelson Inc.
^ Kathy Rivers. "Godchaux Family". Archived from the original on October 25, 2014.
^ John A. Simpson. The Greatest Game Ever Played In Dixie. p. 27.

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National championships in bold

1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Sewanee $	11	–	0	–	0	12	–	0	–	0
Vanderbilt	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Alabama	1	–	0	–	0	3	–	1	–	0
Nashville	3	–	1	–	0	3	–	1	–	0
Tennessee	2	–	1	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Auburn	2	–	1	–	1	3	–	1	–	1
Texas	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
North Carolina	1	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Ole Miss	3	–	4	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
Georgia	2	–	3	–	1	2	–	3	–	1
Clemson	1	–	2	–	0	4	–	2	–	0
Central (KY)	1	–	2	–	0	1	–	2	–	0
LSU	1	–	3	–	0	1	–	4	–	0
Kentucky State	0	–	1	–	0	5	–	2	–	2
SW Presbyterian	0	–	1	–	0	1	–	1	–	0
Cumberland (TN)	0	–	3	–	0	0	–	3	–	0
Georgia Tech	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	5	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	6	–	1

$ – Conference champion