The 1907 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The team competed in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and was coached by Arthur G. Erwin in his first year as head coach, compiling a record of 8–1 (6–1 SIAA) and outscoring opponents 250 to 29. Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin in Spalding's Football Guide's summation of the season in the SIAA wrote "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a might good second;" and that Aubrey Lanier "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."
Sewanee lost the effective SIAA championship game to Vanderbilt on a double pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to Stein Stone. Honus Craig then ran in the winning touchdown. It was just the second year of the legal forward pass. The trick play was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports. Innis Brown later wrote "Sewanee in all probability had the best team in the South."
Schedule
Players
Line Silas Williams End Greenville, South Carolina 5'9"15019Lex Stone Tackle Fayetteville, Tennessee 6'2"17222Eric Cheape Guard Avon Park, Florida 6'1"17021Thomas Evans Center Parral, Mexico 6'1"16020Frank FaulkinberryGuard Fayetteville, Tennessee 6'4"19819William Evans Tackle Parral, Mexico 5'11"18019Guy Lewis End Dallas, Texas 5'11"16522
Backfield Walter BarrettQuarterback Covington, TennesseeMooney 5'10"15522Frank ShippHalfback Chattanooga, Tennessee 5'11"17025Aubrey LanierHalfback Butler, Arkansas 5'10"16019Lawrence MarkleyFullback Chicago 5'10"16522
Subs C. Logan EiseleBack Denver, Colorado 6'0"16019Kenneth LyneBackHenderson, Kentucky 5'10"14619William WilsonEnd Rock Hill, South Carolina 5'10"14422Heber WadleyLine Shreveport, Louisiana 6'2"17021Paul SheppardLine Texarkana, Texas 5'11"17023
See also 1907 College Football All-Southern Team
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