1949 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1949 Southeastern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1949 Vanderbilt Commodores football
1949 Vanderbilt Commodores football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1949 record	5–5 (4–4 SEC)
Head coach	Bill Edwards (1st season);
Offensive scheme	T formation
Captain	Carl Copp
Home stadium	Dudley Field
	Seasons ← 1948 1950 →

The 1949 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1949 college football season. The team's head coach was Bill Edwards, who served his first season as the Commodores' head coach. Vanderbilt went 5–5 with a record of 4–4 in Southeastern Conference play. The Commodores played their six home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 24	at Georgia Tech	Grant Field Atlanta, GA (rivalry)	L 7–12
October 1	Alabama	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 14–7
October 8	Ole Miss	Dudley Field Nashville, TN (rivalry)	W 28–27
October 15	vs. Florida	Gator Bowl Stadium Jacksonville, FL	W 22–17
October 22	Arkansas*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 6–7
October 29	Auburn	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 26–7
November 5	at No. 17 LSU	Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, LA	L 13–33
November 12	Tulane	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 14–41
November 19	Marshall*	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	W 27–6
November 26	at No. 18 Tennessee	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN (rivalry)	L 20–26
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from no poll released prior to the game

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

This college football 1940s season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

v t Vanderbilt Commodores football
Venues	Old Dudley Field (1892–1921) Curry Field (1922) Dudley Field (1922–1980) Vanderbilt Stadium (1980–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Georgia Georgia Tech Kentucky Ole Miss Sewanee Tennessee
Culture & lore	History Origin of "Commodores" "Dynamite" Marching band Porter Cup Vanderbilt rape case 1906 Carlisle game 1910 Yale game 1922 Michigan game IMG Sports Newtork
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks All-Americans All-Southerns NFL draftees Statistical leaders William Lofland Dudley
Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
National championships in bold

1949 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Tulane $	5	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	1
No. 11 Kentucky	4	–	1	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
No. 17 Tennessee	4	–	1	–	1	7	–	2	–	1
Georgia Tech	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
No. 9 LSU	4	–	2	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
Alabama	4	–	3	–	1	6	–	3	–	1
Vanderbilt	4	–	4	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Auburn	2	–	4	–	2	2	–	4	–	3
Ole Miss	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	1
Florida	1	–	4	–	1	4	–	5	–	1
Georgia	1	–	4	–	1	4	–	6	–	1
Mississippi State	0	–	6	–	0	0	–	8	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll