1897 Sewanee Tigers football team

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1897 Sewanee Tigers football
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	1–3–1 (1–2–1 SIAA)
Head coach	John Gere Jayne (1st season)
Captain	Oscar Wilder
Home stadium	Hardee Field
Seasons ← 1896 1898 →

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 16	at Nashville	Nashville, TN	L 5–6	^[1]
October 18	Central (KY)	Hardee Field Sewanee, TN	W 4–0	^[2]
October 30	at Auburn	Hardee Field Sewanee, TN	T 0–0	^[3]
November 5	North Carolina*	Hardee Field Sewanee, TN	L 6–12	^[4]
November 25	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field Nashville, TN (rivalry)	L 0–10	^[5]
*Non-conference game

^ "U. of N. downs Sewanee in a brilliant game". The Nashville American. October 17, 1897. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Sewanee defeats Central". The Nashville American. October 19, 1897. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Sewanee 0, Auburn 0". The Times-Democrat. October 31, 1897. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Purple of Sewanee is trailed in the dust before North Carolina's stalwarts". The Nashville American. November 6, 1897. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Vanderbilt wins; Sewanee defeated by a score of 10 to 0 in Nashville yesterday". Birmingham Age-Herald. November 26, 1897. Retrieved December 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "2004 Sewanee football media guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2013.

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Venues	McGee Field (1891–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Rhodes: Edmund Orgill Trophy Vanderbilt
Culture & lore	Porter Cup
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees
Seasons	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 2023 2024

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