1900 Auburn Tigers football team
American college football season
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The 1900 football team of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now
Auburn University
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Conference | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Record | 4–0 (4–0 SIAA) |
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
Clemson + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||
Sewanee + | 5 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||
Texas | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||
Tulane | 3 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||
Auburn | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||
North Carolina | 3 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | – | 3 | ||
Vanderbilt | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||
Alabama | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||
Nashville | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||
Georgia | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
LSU | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||
Cumberland (TN) | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||
Tennessee | 0 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||
Kentucky | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||
Ole Miss | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||
Georgia Tech | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
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The 1900 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season . It was the Tigers' 9th overall season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Walter H. Watkins , in his first year, and finished with a record of four wins and zero losses (4–0 overall, 4–0 in the SIAA).
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Source |
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October 22 | Nashville | Auburn, AL | W 28–0 | [1] |
November 10 | Tennessee | Birmingham, AL | W 23–0 | [2] |
November 17 | Alabama |
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W 53–5 | [3] |
November 29 | at Georgia |
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W 44–0 | [4] |
Season summary
Nashville
Auburn opened the season against the University of Nashville , On a wet and heavy field, Auburn won 28 – 0. [7]
Tennessee
Auburn beat the Tennessee Volunteers 23–0 .
Alabama
Auburn easily defeated the Alabama team 53 – 5. Auburn's Yarborough scored 3 touchdowns, once on a run of 75 yards. Noll scored twice, once on a run of 55 yards. [8]
Georgia
To close the season, Auburn defeated rival Georgia 44–0.
References
- ↑ "Auburn Defeats Nashville" . The Atlanta Constitution . October 23, 1900. p. 9 . Retrieved May 12, 2016 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Line was impregnable, Auburn men stood like a stone wall" . The Montgomery Advertiser . November 11, 1900 . Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Auburnites win from Tuscaloosa" . The Montgomery Advertiser . November 18, 1900 . Retrieved February 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Georgia's team utterly demolished" . The Montgomery Advertiser . November 30, 1900 . Retrieved January 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ 2009 Auburn Football Media Guide (PDF) . Auburn, Alabama: Auburn Media Relations Office. 2009. p. 182. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06 . Retrieved 2012-12-20 .
- ↑ "1900 Auburn University Football Schedule" . Auburn University Athletics . Archived from the original on January 2, 2013 . Retrieved December 20, 2012 .
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"Auburn Defeats Nashville"
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The Atlanta Constitution
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9
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May 12,
2016
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via
Newspapers.com
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"Archived copy"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2012-03-02
. Retrieved
2016-05-12
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