The Sewanee Tigers college football team represents Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The school is a founding member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), a conference chartered in 2011 by seven former members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and one other invited member that played its first season in 2012. Sewanee had been a charter member of the SCAC as well. The program has had 33 head coaches and one interim head coach since it began play during the 1891 season.2008 Sewanee Tigers Football Media Guide, pp. 32–37 Since December 2025, Joe Freitag has served as Sewanee's head coach.

The team has played more than 970 games over 116 seasons. In that time, Seven coaches won conference championships: John Gere Jayne, Billy Suter, and Harris G. Cope won a combined three as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA); and Shirley Majors, Horace Moore, Bill Samko and John Windham won a combined ten as a member of the CAC/SCAC. Majors is the leader in seasons coached and games won, with 172 victories during his 21 years with the program. James John Quill and Arthur G. Erwin have the highest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .889. Robert Black has the lowest winning percentage of those who have coached more than one game, with .105. Of the 30 different head coaches who have led the Tigers, and Harvey Harman has been inducted as head coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana.

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Coaches + List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, championships and selected awards No. Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% CC NC Awards 1 1891–1893 — — — — — — 2 1894 — — — — — — 3 1895 — 4 1896 — 5 1897–1898 — 6 1899–1901 — 7 1902 — 8 1903–1904 — 9 1905 — 10 1906 — 11 1907 — 12 1908 — 13 1909–1916 — 14 1917–1918 — 15 1919–1920 — 16 1921–1922 — 17 1923–1928 — 18 1928–1929 — 19 1930 — 20 1931–1939 — 21 1940–1941 — 22 1946–1953 — — — — — — 23 1954–1956 — — — — — — 24 1957–1977 — 25 1978–1986 — 26 1987–1993 — 27 1994–1995 — 28 1996–2006 — — — 29 2007–2010 — — — 30 2011–2016 — — — 31 2017–2022 — — — 32 2023–2025 — — — Int 2025 — — — 33 2026–present — — —

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References General

Sewanee Coaching Records. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2011-08-18.

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