1899 Auburn Tigers football team

The 1899 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Tigers went 3–1–1, outscoring their opponents 148–11 and holding four opponents scoreless. This team was noteworthy as the last to be coached by Tigers head coach, John Heisman. It is also one of the first teams to employ a Hurry-up offense.[1] As Heisman recalled:

1899 Auburn Tigers football
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record3–1–1 (2–1–1 SIAA)
Head coach
Offensive schemeHurry-up offense
CaptainArthur Feagin
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Sewanee $11001200
Vanderbilt500720
Alabama100310
Nashville410411
Tennessee210620
Auburn211311
Texas320620
North Carolina110730
Ole Miss340340
Georgia231231
Clemson120420
Central (KY)120120
LSU130140
Kentucky State010522
SW Presbyterian010110
Cumberland (TN)030030
Georgia Tech050060
Tulane050061
  • $ – Conference champion

The team of '99—my last at Auburn—was a great one. It only weighed about 160 (pounds per player), but its speed and team work were something truly wonderful. I do not think I have ever seen so fast a team as that was. It would line up and get the ball in play at times before the opposing players were up off the ground. You see it was a 'stunt' of ours to catch them off side and get the benefit of the penalty. Nowadays no team is taken by surprise by such lightning lining up; but that Auburn team of '99 was the first to show what could be done with speedy play, and then it wasn't long before all other teams were laboring with might and main to inject speed into their work.

In Heisman's opinion, this was his best team while at Auburn.[2]

The squad is also remembered as the only team to score in the legendary 1899 Sewanee team that went undefeated and beat Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane, LSU and Ole Miss over a 6-day span. Auburn lost their matchup to the "Iron Men" by a single point.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 14Georgia Tech
W 63–0[3]
October 21Montgomery Athletic Club*
  • Drill Field
  • Auburn, AL
W 40–0[4]
October 28Clemson
W 34–0[5]
November 18at GeorgiaT 0–0[6]
November 30Sewanee
L 10–11[7]
  • *Non-conference game

[8][9]

References


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