1936 Auburn Tigers football team
American college football season
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Bacardi Bowl
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Villanova
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Conference | Southeastern Conference |
Record | 7–2–2 (4–1–1 SEC) |
Head coach |
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Captain | Walter Gilbert [1] |
Home stadium |
Drake Field
Legion Field Cramton Bowl |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
No. 2 LSU $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||
No. 4 Alabama | 5 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||
Auburn | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||
No. 17 Tennessee | 3 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||
Mississippi State | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||
Georgia | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||
Georgia Tech | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Tulane | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||
Vanderbilt | 1 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||
Kentucky | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
Florida | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||
Ole Miss | 0 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 2 | ||
Sewanee | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||
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The 1936 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1936 college football season . The Tigers' were led by head coach Jack Meagher in his third season and finished the season with a record of seven wins, two losses and two ties (7–2–2 overall, 4–1–1 in the SEC). Auburn also tied Villanova in the Bacardi Bowl , the first bowl game in the history of the Tigers' program.
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Source |
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September 25 | Birmingham–Southern * | W 45–0 | [2] | ||
October 3 | at Tulane | T 0–0 | [3] | ||
October 10 | at Tennessee | W 6–0 | [4] | ||
October 17 | at Detroit * | W 6–0 | |||
October 24 | vs. Georgia | W 20–13 | |||
October 30 | at No. 19 Santa Clara * | No. 16 | L 0–12 | ||
November 7 | at Georgia Tech | No. 20 | W 13–12 | ||
November 14 | No. 7 LSU | L 6–19 | |||
November 21 | Loyola (LA) * | W 44–0 | |||
November 28 | Florida |
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W 13–0 | ||
January 1, 1937 | vs. Villanova * | T 7–7 | |||
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References
- ↑ "Gilbert Named As Captain Of Auburn Eleven" . Selma Times-Journal . December 19, 1935. p. 7 . Retrieved June 30, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Auburn crushes Panthers, 45–0, to open season" . The Montgomery Advertiser . September 26, 1936 . Retrieved February 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Highly touted Auburn Plainsmen held to scoreless tie by Tulane's Green Wave" . The Dothan Eagle . October 4, 1936 . Retrieved April 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ "Auburn defeats Tennessee with three plays left, 6–0" . The Birmingham News . October 11, 1936 . Retrieved August 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Coaching Records Game-by-game: John F. "Jack" Meagher, 1936" . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 . Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ "1936 Auburn University Football Schedule" . Auburn University Athletics . Archived from the original on September 1, 2012 . Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
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