1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season


The 1906 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 1906 college football season. The season began on September 29.
At the end of 1905 football looked about to be abolished due to all of the reoccurring violence during games. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous tactics such as: the flying wedge, punching, kicking, piling-on, and elbows to the face. Almost any violent behavior was allowed. Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season.
As a result, the 1906 season was played under a new set of rules. The rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more open and less dangerous style of play. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical changes including the legalization of the forward pass, allowing the punting team to recover an on-side kick as a live ball, abolishing the dangerous flying wedge, creating a neutral zone between offense and defense, and doubling the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs.
According to Fuzzy Woodruff, Davidson tossed the first legal forward pass in the South in the win over Georgia.
Clemson and Vanderbilt tied for the SIAA title, but few writers chose the Tigers over the vaunted Commodores. Coach Dan McGugin called the Carlisle victory "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season." For some, Vanderbilt's eleven was the entire All-Southern team. Running back Owsley Manier was the first Southern player chosen third-team All-American by Walter Camp.

Results and team statistics

Conf. RankTeamHead coachOverall recordConf. recordPPGPAG
1 VanderbiltDan McGugin8–14–030.91.8
1 ClemsonBob Williams4–0–34–0–15.40.6
3SewaneeJ. J. Quill8–15–123.41.8
4AlabamaDoc Pollard5–13–116.213.7
5MississippiThomas S. Hammond4–23–211.810.7
6Georgia TechJohn Heisman6–3–13–38.17.7
7GeorgiaW. S. Whitney2–4–12–2–18.47.1
8LSUDan A. Killian2–2–20–1–16.76.2
9Mississippi A&MDaniel S. Martin2–2–10–2–120.29.0
10 MercerE. E. Tarr1–40–26.432.6
10 TulaneJohn Russ0–4–10–20.018.4
12TennesseeJames DePree1–6–20–3–11.714.1
13AuburnMike Donahue1–5–10–53.45.9

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

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won
Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
September 29MaryvilleGeorgia TechAtlanta, GAT 6-6
September 29HowardMississippi A&MHardy Field • Starkville, MSW 30-0

Week Two

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 4MaryvilleOle MissOxford, MSW 16-6
October 6MaryvilleAlabamaThe Quad • Tuscaloosa, ALW 6-0
October 6North GeorgiaGeorgia TechAtlanta, GAW 11-0
October 6MooneySewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 24-0
October 6AmericanTennesseeWaite Field • Knoxville, TNW 10-0
October 6KentuckyVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNW 28-0
October 8MaryvilleAuburnAuburn, ALT 0-0
October 8MercerGordonBarnesville, GAL 28-5

Week Three

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 10Monroe A. C.LSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAW 5–0
October 13GordonAuburnAuburn, ALW 15–0
October 13HowardAlabamaThe Quad • Tuscaloosa, ALW 14–0
October 13ChattanoogaGeorgia TechAtlanta, GAW 18–0
October 13DavidsonGeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAL 15–0
October 13MaryvilleTennesseeWaite Field • Knoxville, TNL 11–0
October 13MarionMississippi A&MHardy Field • Starkville, MSW 62-0
October 13RhodesSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 57-0
October 13Ole MissVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 29-0

Week Four

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 20CentreTennesseeWaite Field • Knoxville, TNL 6-0
October 20GeorgiaClemsonBowman Field • Calhoun, SCCLEM 6–0
October 20Ole MissLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAMISS 9–0
October 20SewaneeGeorgia TechAtlanta, GASEW 16–0
October 20AlabamaVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 78-0

Week Five

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 25TennesseeAmericanHarriman, TNT 5–5
October 26SewaneeAuburnBirmingham, ALSEW 10–5
October 27DavidsonGeorgia Tech• Atlanta, GAW 4–0
October 27LSUMississippi A&MColumbus Fairgrounds • Columbus, MST 0–0
October 27HowardTulaneNew Orleans, LAT 0–0
October 27TexasVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNW 45-0

Week Six

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 3ClemsonDavidsonDavidson, NCT 0-0
November 3AlabamaMississippi A&MHardy Field • Starkville, MSALA 16-4
November 3GeorgiaMercerMacon, GAUGA 55-0
November 3AuburnGeorgia TechAtlanta, GAGT 11-0
November 3VanderbiltMichiganRegents Field • Ann Arbor, MIL 10-4
November 3SewaneeTennesseeWaite Field • Knoxville, TNSEW 17-0

Week Seven

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 9Louisiana TechLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAW 17–0
November 10AuburnClemsonBowman Field • Calhoun, SCCLEM 6–4
November 10Georgia TechGeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAGT 17-0
November 10MercerThe CitadelCharleston, SCL 10-0
November 10TennesseeKentuckyStoll Field • Lexington, KYL 21-0
November 10SewaneeTulaneNew Orleans, LASEW 35–0
November 10Rose-HulmanVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNW 33-0
November 12Ole MissSewaneeMemphis, TNSEW 24-0

Week Eight

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 16FloridaMercerMacon, GAW 12-0
November 17AuburnAlabamaState Fairgrounds • Birmingham, ALALA 10–0
November 17MaryvilleSewaneeMcGee Field • Sewanee, TNW 28-0
November 17Texas A&MTulaneNew Orleans, LAL 18–0
November 17VanderbiltGeorgia TechGrant Field • Atlanta, GAVAN 37–6
November 19TennesseeClemsonBowman Field • Calhoun, SCCLEM 16–0
November 19Texas A&MLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAL 22-12

Week Nine

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 21TennesseeGeorgiaHerty Field • Athens, GAT 0–0
November 24ArkansasTulaneNew Orleans, LAL 22-0
November 24Georgia TechMercerMacon, GAGT 61-0
November 24CarlisleVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNW 4–0

Week Ten

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 29TennesseeAlabamaState Fairgrounds • Birmingham, ALALA 51–0
November 29ArkansasLSUState Field • Baton Rouge, LAT 6-6
November 29ClemsonGeorgia TechAtlanta, GACLEM 10–0
November 29AuburnGeorgiaMacon, GAUGA 4-0
November 29Ole MissMississippi A&MState Fairgrounds • Jackson, MSMISS 29-5
November 29SewaneeVanderbiltDudley Field • Nashville, TNVAN 20-0
December 2GeorgiaSavannah A. C.Savannah, GAL 12-0

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The composite All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:
PositionNameTeam
QBSam CostenVanderbilt
HBDan BlakeVanderbilt
HBHonus CraigVanderbilt
FBOwsley ManierVanderbilt
EBob BlakeVanderbilt
TJoe PritchardVanderbilt
GWalter K. ChornVanderbilt
CStein StoneVanderbilt
GClyde R. ConnerMississippi
TLex StoneSewanee
ELob BrownGeorgia Tech