1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League	NCAA
Sport	College football
Duration	September 29, 1906; through December 2, 1906
Number of teams	18
Regular Season
Season champions	Vanderbilt; Clemson
Football seasons
	← 1905 1907 →

1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Vanderbilt +	4	–	0	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
Clemson +	4	–	0	–	0	4	–	0	–	3
Sewanee	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
Alabama	3	–	1	–	0	5	–	1	–	0
Ole Miss	3	–	2	–	0	4	–	2	–	0
Georgia Tech	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	3	–	1
Georgia	2	–	2	–	1	2	–	4	–	1
LSU	0	–	1	–	1	2	–	2	–	2
Mississippi A&M	0	–	2	–	1	2	–	2	–	1
Tennessee	0	–	3	–	1	1	–	6	–	2
Mercer	0	–	2	–	0	1	–	4	–	0
Tulane	0	–	2	–	0	0	–	4	–	1
Auburn	0	–	5	–	0	1	–	5	–	1
Cumberland (TN)			–					–
Nashville			–					–

+ – Conference co-champions

The 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1906 college football season. The season began on September 29.

At the end of 1905 football looked about to be abolished due to all of the reoccurring violence during games. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous tactics such as: the flying wedge, punching, kicking, piling-on, and elbows to the face. Almost any violent behavior was allowed. Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season.^{[n 1]}

As a result, the 1906 season was played under a new set of rules.^[2] The rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more open and less dangerous style of play. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical changes including the legalization of the forward pass, allowing the punting team to recover an on-side kick as a live ball, abolishing the dangerous flying wedge, creating a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubling the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs.^[3]

According to Fuzzy Woodruff, Davidson tossed the first legal forward pass in the South in the win over Georgia.^[4]

Clemson and Vanderbilt tied for the SIAA title,^[5] but few writers chose the Tigers over the vaunted Commodores.^[6] Coach Dan McGugin called the Carlisle victory "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season."^[7] For some, Vanderbilt's eleven was the entire All-Southern team.^[8] Running back Owsley Manier was the first Southern player chosen third-team All-American by Walter Camp.

Results and team statistics

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG
1 (tie)	Vanderbilt	Dan McGugin	8–1	4–0	30.9	1.8
1 (tie)	Clemson	Bob Williams	4–0–3	4–0–1	5.4	0.6
3	Sewanee	J. J. Quill	8–1	5–1	23.4	1.8
4	Alabama	Doc Pollard	5–1	3–1	16.2	13.7
5	Mississippi	Thomas S. Hammond	4–2	3–2	11.8	10.7
6	Georgia Tech	John Heisman	6–3–1	3–3	8.1	7.7
7	Georgia	W. S. Whitney	2–4–1	2–2–1	8.4	7.1
8	LSU	Dan A. Killian	2–2–2	0–1–1	6.7	6.2
9	Mississippi A&M	Daniel S. Martin	2–2–1	0–2–1	20.2	9.0
10 (tie)	Mercer	E. E. Tarr	1–4	0–2	6.4	32.6
10 (tie)	Tulane	John Russ	0–4–1	0–2	0.0	18.4
12	Tennessee	James DePree	1–6–2	0–3–1	1.7	14.1
13	Auburn	Mike Donahue	1–5–1	0–5	3.4	5.9

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game^[9]

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
September 29	Maryville	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	T 6–6
September 29	Howard	Mississippi A&M	Hardy Field • Starkville, MS	W 30–0

Week Two

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 4	Maryville	Ole Miss	Oxford, MS	W 16–6
October 6	Maryville	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 6–0
October 6	North Georgia	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 11–0
October 6	Mooney	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 24–0
October 6	American	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	W 10–0
October 6	Kentucky	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 28–0
October 8	Maryville	Auburn	Auburn, AL	T 0–0
October 8	Mercer	Gordon	Barnesville, GA	L 28–5

Week Three

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 10	Monroe A. C.	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	W 5–0
October 13	Gordon	Auburn	Auburn, AL	W 15–0
October 13	Howard	Alabama	The Quad • Tuscaloosa, AL	W 14–0
October 13	Chattanooga	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	W 18–0
October 13	Davidson	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	L 15–0
October 13	Maryville	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	L 11–0
October 13	Marion	Mississippi A&M	Hardy Field • Starkville, MS	W 62–0
October 13	Rhodes	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 57–0
October 13	Ole Miss	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 29–0

Week Four

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 20	Centre	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	L 6–0
October 20	Georgia	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	CLEM 6–0
October 20	Ole Miss	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	MISS 9–0
October 20	Sewanee	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	SEW 16–0
October 20	Alabama	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 78–0

Week Five

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
October 25	Tennessee	American	Harriman, TN	T 5–5
October 26	Sewanee	Auburn	Birmingham, AL	SEW 10–5
October 27	Davidson	Georgia Tech	• Atlanta, GA	W 4–0
October 27	LSU	Mississippi A&M	Columbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MS	T 0–0
October 27	Howard	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	T 0–0
October 27	Texas	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 45–0

Week Six

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 3	Clemson	Davidson	Davidson, NC	T 0–0
November 3	Alabama	Mississippi A&M	Hardy Field • Starkville, MS	ALA 16–4
November 3	Georgia	Mercer	Macon, GA	UGA 55–0
November 3	Auburn	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	GT 11–0
November 3	Vanderbilt	Michigan	Regents Field • Ann Arbor, MI	L 10–4
November 3	Sewanee	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, TN	SEW 17–0

Week Seven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 9	Louisiana Tech	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	W 17–0
November 10	Auburn	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	CLEM 6–4
November 10	Georgia Tech	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	GT 17–0
November 10	Mercer	The Citadel	Charleston, SC	L 10–0
November 10	Tennessee	Kentucky	Stoll Field • Lexington, KY	L 21–0
November 10	Sewanee	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	SEW 35–0
November 10	Rose-Hulman	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 33–0
November 12	Ole Miss	Sewanee	Memphis, TN	SEW 24–0

Week Eight

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 16	Florida	Mercer	Macon, GA	W 12–0
November 17	Auburn	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	ALA 10–0
November 17	Maryville	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	W 28–0
November 17	Texas A&M	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	L 18–0
November 17	Vanderbilt	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta, GA	VAN 37–6
November 19	Tennessee	Clemson	Bowman Field • Calhoun, SC	CLEM 16–0
November 19	Texas A&M	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	L 22–12

Week Nine

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Reference
November 21	Tennessee	Georgia	Herty Field • Athens, GA	T 0–0
November 24	Arkansas	Tulane	New Orleans, LA	L 22–0
November 24	Georgia Tech	Mercer	Macon, GA	GT 61–0
November 24	Carlisle	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 4–0	^[10]

Week Ten

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 29	Tennessee	Alabama	State Fairgrounds • Birmingham, AL	ALA 51–0
November 29	Arkansas	LSU	State Field • Baton Rouge, LA	T 6–6
November 29	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	CLEM 10–0
November 29	Auburn	Georgia	Macon, GA	UGA 4–0
November 29	Ole Miss	Mississippi A&M	State Fairgrounds • Jackson, MS	MISS 29–5
November 29	Sewanee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 20–0
December 2	Georgia	Savannah A. C.	Savannah, GA	L 12–0

Awards and honors

All-Americans

FB - Owsley Manier, Vanderbilt (WC-3)

All-Southern team

The composite All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:

Position	Name	Team
QB	Sam Costen	Vanderbilt
HB	Dan Blake	Vanderbilt
HB	Honus Craig	Vanderbilt
FB	Owsley Manier	Vanderbilt
E	Bob Blake	Vanderbilt
T	Joe Pritchard	Vanderbilt
G	Walter K. Chorn	Vanderbilt
C	Stein Stone	Vanderbilt
G	Clyde R. Conner	Mississippi
T	Lex Stone	Sewanee
E	Lob Brown	Georgia Tech

Notes

^ Union College halfback Harold Moore died of a cerebral hemorrhage after being kicked in the head while attempting to tackle an NYU runner. The Chicago Tribune referred to the 1905 football season as a "death harvest", as it resulted in 19 player deaths and 137 serious injuries.^[1]

References

^ "Football Year's Death Harvest: Record Shows That Nineteen Football Players Have been Killed in 1905". November 26, 1905. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.
^ Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 7. p. 49. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
^ "Football Rules Made At Last". Salt Lake Herald. April 2, 1906. p. 7.
^ Woodruff 1928, p. 187
^ "Clemson Vault: A Measure of Success".^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt
^ Dan McGugin (1907). "Football In Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 49.
^ "Daniel Earle McGugin". Coach & Athlete. 28: 42. 1965 – via Google books.
^ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/independent/1906.html
^ "Vanderbilt The Winner". The InterOcean. November 23, 1906. p. 4. Retrieved March 24, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

Woodruff, Fuzzy (1928). A History of Southern Football 1890–1928. Vol. 1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[2] Union College halfback Harold Moore died of a cerebral hemorrhage after being kicked in the head while attempting to tackle an NYU runner. The Chicago Tribune referred to the 1905 football season as a "death harvest", as it resulted in 19 player deaths and 137 serious injuries.^[1]

[1] "Football Year's Death Harvest: Record Shows That Nineteen Football Players Have been Killed in 1905". November 26, 1905. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.

[3] Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 7. p. 49. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[4] "Football Rules Made At Last". Salt Lake Herald. April 2, 1906. p. 7.

[5] Woodruff 1928, p. 187

[6] "Clemson Vault: A Measure of Success".^{[permanent dead link]}

[7] ttp://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt

[NCAA1-8] Dan McGugin (1907). "Football In Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 49.

[9] "Daniel Earle McGugin". Coach & Athlete. 28: 42. 1965 – via Google books.

[10] ttps://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/independent/1906.html

[11] "Vanderbilt The Winner". The InterOcean. November 23, 1906. p. 4. Retrieved March 24, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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