1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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American college football season

1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
LSU + 3 0 0 6 0 0
Georgia + 2 0 0 4 0 0
Vanderbilt 2 0 2 3 2 2
Auburn 3 1 0 3 1 0
Georgia Tech 1 1 1 1 1 1
Texas 1 1 0 4 2 1
Alabama 1 1 0 2 1 0
Kentucky State College 1 1 0 3 6 0
Sewanee 3 3 0 3 3 0
Tennessee 0 0 0 4 0 0
Tulane 1 2 0 3 2 0
SW Presbyterian 0 1 0 0 1 0
Nashville 0 1 1 0 1 1
Mercer 0 2 1 0 2 1
Central (KY) 0 2 1 0 3 1
Mississippi A&M 0 2 0 0 4 0
Cumberland (TN)        
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1896 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1896 college football season. It was the first official Tennessee Volunteers football team since 1893. The 1896 Vols went undefeated at 4–0 for the first winning season in school history. This was also the Tennessee’s first season in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), though they did not play a conference opponent.

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    “The University scored a victory”. The Knoxville Sentinel. October 23, 1896. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

  2. ^ “Chattanooga wins spirited football game at the park yesterday”. Chattanooga Daily Times. October 25, 1896. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ “Blacksburg defeated”. The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. November 15, 1896. p. 13. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  4. ^ “Bad defeat for Central University”. The Courier-Journal. November 27, 1896. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


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