1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season


The 1899 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 1899 college football season.
The season began on October 6 with Vanderbilt visiting Cumberland.
Sewanee won the conference with 11 conference victories. With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw." The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."

Season overview

Results and team statistics

Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game

Regular season

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

Week Nine

Week Ten

Week Twelve

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
December 25TennesseeChattanoogaChattanooga, TNW 6–0

All-Southern team

's All-Southern team:
PositionNameTeam
QBWarbler WilsonSewanee
HBArthur FeaginAuburn
HBHarry GerstleVirginia
FBRobert M. ColemanVirginia
EBart SimsSewanee
TW. HamiltonGeorgia
GWilliam ChoiceVPI
CCarlos A. LongGeorgetown
GWallace CrutchfieldVanderbilt
TJohn LoydVirginia
EHerman KoehlerNorth Carolina