1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
CaptainElliott Jones
Home stadiumDudley Field
Seasons
← 1891
1893 →
1892 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Centre     6 0 0
Biddle     1 0 0
Furman     1 0 0
Mercer     1 0 0
North Carolina A&M     1 0 0
Virginia Military     4 0 1
Wake Forest     4 0 1
Johns Hopkins     7 1 0
North Carolina     5 1 0
Central (KY)     4 1 0
Sewanee     5 1 1
Navy     5 2 0
Georgetown     4 2 1
Virginia     3 2 1
Vanderbilt     4 4 0
Alabama     2 2 0
Auburn     2 2 0
Georgia     1 1 0
Virginia A&M     1 1 0
Western Maryland     0 0 1
Richmond     2 3 0
Delaware     1 2 2
Kentucky A&M     2 4 1
Tennessee     2 5 0
Trinity (NC)     1 3 0
Hampden–Sydney     0 1 0
Livingstone     0 1 0
Maryville (TN)     0 1 0
South Carolina     0 1 0
Georgia Tech     0 3 0
Maryland     0 3 0

The 1892 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1892 college football season. The team's head coach and team captain was Elliott H. Jones, who served his third and last season in that capacity. This was the first year for Vandy and University of Tennessee to play football also the first year to play at (Old) Dudley Field. The 1892 team was the oldest in the memory of Grantland Rice. He claimed Phil Connell then would be a good player in any era.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 15at SewaneeL 4–22[2]
October 21TennesseeW 22–4[3]
October 29Nashville (Peabody Normal School)
  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN
W 40–0[4]
November 5Washington University
  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN
L 4–14[5]
November 12Sewanee
  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN
L 14–28[6]
November 17at Tennessee
W 12–0[7]
November 19at Georgia TechW 20–10[8]
November 24North Carolina
  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN
L 0–24[9]

References

  1. ^ Grantland Rice (November 24, 1937). "Two of Year's Outstanding Games in South This Week". Lincoln Evening Journal. p. 12. Retrieved May 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "Sewanee leads off; Vanderbilt yields the first football game to the Mountain Boys". Nashville Banner. October 17, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Great football game, Vanderbilt vanquishes the University of Tennessee eleven". Nashville Banner. October 21, 1892. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "The Vanderbilts and Washingtons will engage in contest Saturday". Nashville Banner. October 31, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "The Washingtons win; Vanderbilt loses a hotly contested game of 14 to 4". The Nashville American. November 6, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Sewanee leads off; Vanderbilt yields the first football game to the Mountain Boys". The Courier-Journal. November 13, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "U of T blanked, Vanderbilt defeats them to the tune of 12 to 0". The Journal and Tribune. November 18, 1892. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "The Techs were defeated but only after playing hard". The Atlanta Constitution. November 20, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "North Carolina wins; A magnificent team snatches a football victory from Vanderbilt University". Nashville Banner. November 25, 1892. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.