Factoid Feast XI

As discussed in Factoid Feasts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X, my searches through football history sometimes lead to topics too important to ignore but too minor to Tidbit. Such nuggets are factoids, three of which are shared today.

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1909 Sewanee Football

Earlier this week, I published a story about Sewanee: The University of the South and their decision to drop out of the SEC in 1941. While researching that article, I found information about Sewanee's 1909 team putting five players on the All-Southern Intercollegiate eleven named by Grantland Rice, then a reporter in Nashville.

Sewanee’s 1909 football team. (JSTOR/Sewanee Archives)

For whatever reason, Sewanee's yearbook celebrated the accomplishment by accompanying the All-Southern team information with an image of their quarterback dressed in a non-regulation uniform.

(1910 Sewanee yearbook)