1910 Vanderbilt vs. Yale football game

August 2023 1910 Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Yale Bulldogs football game 1910 Vanderbilt Commodores Vanderbilt University Yale Bulldogs 4–0 4–1 Dan McGugin Ted Coy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 October 22, 1910 Yale Field New Haven, Connecticut Dave Fultz The 1910 Vanderbilt vs Yale football game, played October 22, 1910, was a college football game between the Vanderbilt Commodores and Yale Bulldogs. Vanderbilt managed to hold defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie on its home field,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2306597/the_wilmington_morning_star/ Vanderbilt Equal For Yale October 23, 1910 1 April 28, 2015 Newspapers.com The Wilmington Morning Star https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1944523// Atlanta Constitution Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had February 19, 1911 March 8, 2015 52 Newspapers.com the south's first great showing against an Eastern power.https://archive.org/stream/fottballsgreates00pope#page/342/mode/2up Football's Greatest Coaches 343 Edwin Pope Edwin Pope It was the first home game in which Yale failed to score a point.Bill Traughber November 9, 2005 Commodores Shock Powerful Yale in 1910 http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110905aab.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150212003320/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110905aab.html February 12, 2015 March 11, 2015 Vanderbilt Commodores Athletics Game summary thumb|A 1910 Yale team "Four times brilliant rushes around end by Capt. Neely brought the ball well into Yale territory, only to be lost because of penalties against the visitors. Vanderbilt did not substitute a single player."https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2306640/chicago_daily_tribune/ Chicago Daily Tribune Yale and Vanderbilt Tie 3 October 23, 1910 April 28, 2015 Newspapers.com Aftermath Vanderbilt captain Bill Neely, brother of Jess Neely, recalled the event: "The score tells the story a good deal better than I can. All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today – line, ends, and backfield. We went in to give Yale the best we had and I think we about did it."https://books.google.com/books?id=-GEVBAAAQBAJ&q=%22bill+neely%22+&pg=PA44 Vanderbilt Football:Tales of Commodore Gridiron History Bill Traughber 44 2011 9781625842312October 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes In Nashville on the night of the game, over a thousand Vanderbilt students (boys) "clad in nightshirts, pajamas and curtailed bonnets," celebrated with a parade march through the streets, and after a trip to the woman's college, with a bonfire at Dudley Field well into the night. Grantland Rice wrote: These are the gladdest of possible words, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Sweeter than song from the clear singing birds, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Words that are sweeter than nectar and honey Sweeter by far than the jungle of money, Words that are roseate, golden and sunny, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Find in the classics another such phrase, "Commodores Draw With the Blue," Phrase that is all to the ripple and razzle, Canonized cluster of words on the dazzle, Words that have Emerson smashed to a frazzle "Commodores Draw with the Blue" References Category:1910 college football season vs. Yale 1910 vs. Vanderbilt 1910 Category:October 1910 sports events in the United States Category:1910 in sports in Connecticut