1890 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 football 1890 none Vanderbilt Commodores 1890Vandy.jpg 290 Independent 1–0 Elliott Jones Elliott Jones 1st The 1890 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1890 college football season. The team's head coach and team captain was Elliott Jones, who served his first season in that capacity. In its inaugural season of play, Vandy played only one game, in Nashville, Tennessee, against Nashville Peabody Normal School. Schedule November 27 w Nashville, (Peabody Normal School) Nashville's Athletic Park Nashville, TN 40–0 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98386978/at-ymca-park-an-exciting-football-game/ The Daily American At YMCA Park, an exciting football game in which the Vanderbilts are victorious November 28, 1890 March 25, 2022 Newspapers.com Vanderbilt’s first game Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president. Most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, and track and field events.http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082505aaa.html William Dudley: a Father of Vanderbilt Athletics William L Traughber August 25, 2005 September 22, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129014654/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082505aaa.html November 29, 2014 dead thumb|right|125px|Elliott Jones. Vanderbilt played its first football game in 1890 at Nashville Athletic Park, against Nashville (Peabody). Vanderbilt won 40 to 0. Captain and fullback Elliott Jones recalled the meeting which beget the game. Dudley called for a meeting of the Athletic Association, after Peabody had issued a challenge to play a contest on Thanksgiving Day. He felt the challenge a serious matter; that the pride of the university was at stake. In front of some 150 students in the gymnasium, Dudley explained that if the challenge were met, a new era of athletics would be created with the game of football. From his Kansas City law office many years later Jones remembered: "There followed a general discussion of the whole situation. The difficulties, particularly the shortness of time for preparation, and the fact that regular football had not been theretofore played at Vanderbilt at all, were dealt upon. Many thought that it would be unfair to ourselves to hazard a contest under the circumstances. We knew that Peabody Normal had been playing intramural football for several years. The predominating note, however, for discussion was that we had never taken anything off Peabody Normal and should not do now. Finally, P. M. (Pat) Estes, then of St. Louis, made a motion to the effect that the challenge be accepted and that E. H. Jones be authorized and directed to organize and captain a team for the occasion. The motion was unanimously carried." Of Dudley, Elliott Jones said: "Too much cannot be said about Dr. William L. Dudley in connection with early football at Vanderbilt. Since college days his picture has adored my office wall, and when asked by any one who the gentleman is, I always reply, 'The best friend of myself and every other student at Vanderbilt, in my college days.' He went with the team on every trip, and watched over us like a father. "He was our inspiration as well as our guardian. He was our true and loyal friend, under any and all circumstances, in adversity as well in prosperity. I have never known a more lovable, more genuine friend. I cherish the memory of his friendship above all else in my college experience." Roster Line Vanderbilt Commodores Player PositionA. Allen left endRip Allen right endCharles Baskerville right tackleW. W. Craig left tackleW. H. Hardin centerB. Knapp right guardPhillip H. Porter left guard Backfield Vanderbilt Commodores Player Position Pat Estes quarterbackHorace E. Bemis halfbackR. H. Mitchell halfbackElliott Jones fullback Substitutes Vanderbilt Commodores Player John C. WallHerman D. Ruhmhttps://books.google.com/books?id=nmomAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA309 Vanderbilt University Quarterly google.com 1910 See also List of the first college football games in each U.S. state References Vanderbilt Category:Vanderbilt Commodores football seasons Category:College football undefeated seasons Vanderbilt Commodores football