1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

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1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League NCAA
Sport College football
DurationSeptember 28, 1918
through December 7, 1918
Number of teams11
Regular Season
Season champions Georgia Tech
Football seasons
  1917
1919  
1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Georgia Tech $300  610
Vanderbilt 200  420
Mississippi A&M 200  320
Clemson 310  520
South Carolina 211  211
Furman 130  351
Sewanee 010  320
The Citadel 011  021
Auburn 020  250
Ole Miss 020  130
Wofford 020  030
  • $ Conference champion
  • There were several SIAA schools that did not field a team due to World War I.

The 1918 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 1918 college football season. The season began on September 28.

Contents

Georgia Tech was conference champion. Center Bum Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Walter Camp's All-America first-team.

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 28Camp SevierClemson Riggs FieldCalhoun, South Carolina W 650

Week Two

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 5ClemsonGeorgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta GT 28–0

Week Three

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 12FurmanGeorgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta GT 118–0

Week Four

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 19 Oglethorpe Auburn Drake FieldAuburn, Alabama W 58–0
October 19Camp GreenleafVanderbilt Dudley FieldNashville, Tennessee L 60
October 1911th CavalryGeorgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta W 123–0

Week Five

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
October 26Camp GriffinAuburn Rickwood FieldBirmingham, Alabama L 26–0
October 26Camp HancockVanderbilt Dudley FieldNashville, Tennessee L 256
October 26Camp GordonGeorgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta W 28–0
October 26MorganSewanee McGee FieldSewanee, Tennessee W 68–6

Week Six

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 2Camp GreenleafSewanee McGee FieldSewanee, Tennessee L 140
November 2ClemsonSouth Carolina Columbia, South Carolina CLEM 390
November 248th InfantryFurman Greenville, South Carolina W 207
November 2SewaneeTennesseeWaite Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 680
November 2 Kentucky Vanderbilt Dudley FieldNashville, Tennessee W 330
November 3Auburn Marion Marion, Alabama W 207

Week Seven

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 9AuburnCamp Gordon Columbus, Georgia W 146
November 9FurmanSouth Carolina Florence, South Carolina SCAR 26–0
November 9Camp HancockClemson Riggs FieldCalhoun, South Carolina L 6613
November 9 Erskine Furman Greenville, South Carolina T 66
November 9Camp ShelbyMississippi A&M Davis Wade StadiumStarkville, Mississippi W 120
November 9Payne FieldOle Miss West Point, Mississippi L 60
November 9 Tennessee (SATC)Vanderbilt Dudley FieldNashville, Tennessee W 760
November 10 North Carolina A&M Georgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta W 1280

Week Eight

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 16ClemsonThe Citadel Columbia, South Carolina CLEM 70
November 16 Erskine Wofford Spartanburg, South Carolina L 270
November 16 Union (TN) Ole Miss Hemingway StadiumOxford, Mississippi W 390
November 16Park FieldMississippi A&M Davis Wade StadiumStarkville, Mississippi L 60
November 16VanderbiltAuburn Rickwood FieldBirmingham, Alabama VAN 21–0
November 16Fort OglethorpeSewanee Chattanooga, Tennessee W 24–6
November 16South CarolinaFurman Greenville, South Carolina SCAR 2012

Week Nine

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 22Charleston NavyThe CitadelCollege Park Stadium • Charleston, South Carolina L 60
November 23FurmanClemson Riggs FieldCalhoun, South Carolina CLEM 687
November 23Georgia Tech Pittsburgh Forbes FieldPittsburgh, Pennsylvania L 320
November 23WoffordSouth Carolina Columbia, South Carolina SCAR 130

Week Ten

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
November 28Clemson Davidson Charlotte, North Carolina W 7–0
November 28AuburnGeorgia Tech Grant FieldAtlanta GT 410
November 28Ole MissMississippi A&M Davis Wade StadiumStarkville, Mississippi MSA&M 34–0
November 28The CitadelSouth CarolinaCounty Fairgrounds • Orangeburg, South Carolina T 00
November 28SewaneeVanderbilt Dudley FieldNashville, Tennessee VAN 400
November 302nd Dev. RegimentFurman Greenville, South Carolina L 137

Week Eleven

DateVisiting teamHome teamSiteResultAttendanceReference
December 4FurmanWofford Spartanburg, South Carolina FUR 70
December 7Mississippi A&MOle Miss Hemingway StadiumOxford, Mississippi MSA&M 130
December 7PresbyterianFurman Greenville, South Carolina L 137

Awards and honors

All-Americans

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