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====Rise of the South==== One publication claims "The first scouting done in the South was in 1905, when [[Dan McGugin]] and Captain [[Innis Brown]], of Vanderbilt went to [[Atlanta]] to see [[Sewanee Tigers football|Sewanee]] play [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]]."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz-SvKTN15IC&pg=PR2-IA1|title=How to Scout Football|author=George Allen|page=3|isbn=978-1-57898-729-0|date=February 2009|publisher=Martino }}</ref> [[Fuzzy Woodruff]] claims [[Davidson Wildcats football|Davidson]] was the first in the south to throw a legal forward pass in 1906. The following season saw [[1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team|Vanderbilt]] execute a [[Trick play#double pass|double pass play]] to set up the touchdown that beat [[Sewanee Tigers football|Sewanee]] in a meeting of the unbeaten for the SIAA championship. [[Grantland Rice]] cited this event as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Boston Daily Globe|title=Grantland Rice Tells Of Greatest Thrill In Years Of Watching Sport|date=April 27, 1924|id = {{ProQuest|497709192}}}}</ref> Vanderbilt coach [[Dan McGugin]] in ''Spalding's Football Guide''{{'s}} summation of the season in the SIAA wrote "The standing. First, Vanderbilt; second, Sewanee, a might good second;" and that [[Aubrey Lanier]] "came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vws7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA73|pages=71–75|title=Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball|author=Dan McGugin|journal=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide|date=1907|author-link=Dan McGugin}}</ref> [[Bob Blake (American football)|Bob Blake]] threw the final pass to center [[Stein Stone]], catching it near the goal among defenders. [[Honus Craig]] then ran in the winning touchdown. =====Heisman shift===== Using the "[[jump shift]]" offense, [[John Heisman]]'s [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech Golden Tornado]] won [[1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game|222 to 0]] over [[Cumberland University|Cumberland]] on October 7, 1916, at [[Grant Field]] in the most lopsided victory in college football history.<ref name="pbp">{{cite news| title=Yellow Jackets-Cumberland Score Was Record One; Tops the List According to Statistics Compiled Showing All Scores Past the Century Mark| last=Davis| first=Parke H.| newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution| date=October 15, 1916| page=A3}}</ref> Tech went on a 33-game winning streak during this period. The [[1917 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|1917 team]] was the first [[mythical national championship|national champion]] from the [[American South|South]], led by a powerful backfield. It also had the first two players from the [[Deep South]] selected first-team All-American in [[Walker Carpenter]] and [[Everett Strupper]]. [[Glenn Warner|Pop Warner]]'s [[1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team|Pittsburgh Panthers]] were also undefeated, but declined a challenge by Heisman to a game. When Heisman left Tech after 1919, his shift was still employed by protégé [[William Alexander (coach)|William Alexander]]. =====Notable intersectional games===== [[File:DaviesPittGT1918.jpg|thumb|[[Tom Davies (American football)|Tom Davies]] runs against undefeated and unscored upon [[1918 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|Georgia Tech]] in the 1918 game at [[Forbes Field]]]] In 1906, Vanderbilt defeated [[Carlisle Indians football|Carlisle]] 4 to 0, the result of a Bob Blake field goal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2054516/the_atlanta_constitution/|work=Atlanta Constitution|access-date=March 24, 2015|date=November 25, 1906|page=5|title=Vandy's Great Victory Will Live In History|author=Alex Lynn|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Best Eleven">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1944523//|work=Atlanta Constitution|title=Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had|date=February 19, 1911|access-date=March 8, 2015|page=52|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In 1907 Vanderbilt fought Navy to a 6 to 6 tie. In 1910 Vanderbilt held defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie.<ref name="Best Eleven"/> Helping Georgia Tech's claim to a title in 1917, the [[1917 Auburn Tigers football team|Auburn Tigers]] held undefeated, [[Chic Harley]]-led Big Ten champion [[1917 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] to a scoreless tie the week before Georgia Tech beat the Tigers 68 to 7. The next season, with many players gone due to World War I, a game was finally scheduled at [[Forbes Field]] with [[1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team|Pittsburgh]]. The Panthers, led by freshman [[Tom Davies (American football)|Tom Davies]], defeated [[1918 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|Georgia Tech]] 32 to 0. Tech center [[Bum Day]] was the first player on a Southern team ever selected first-team All-American by [[Walter Camp]]. 1917 saw the rise of another Southern team in [[Centre Colonels football|Centre]] of [[Danville, Kentucky]]. In 1921 [[Bo McMillin]]-led [[1921 Centre Praying Colonels football team|Centre]] upset defending national champion Harvard [[1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game|6 to 0]] in what is widely considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history. The next year Vanderbilt fought Michigan to a [[1922 Michigan vs. Vanderbilt football game|scoreless tie]] at the inaugural game at [[Dudley Field]] (now Vanderbilt Stadium), the first stadium in the South made exclusively for college football. Michigan coach [[Fielding Yost]] and Vanderbilt coach [[Dan McGugin]] were brothers-in-law, and the latter the protégé of the former. The game featured the season's two best defenses and included a goal line stand by Vanderbilt to preserve the tie. Its result was "a great surprise to the sporting world".<ref>{{cite news|title=Football Squads Begin practice|newspaper=The Kingsport Times|date=September 14, 1923}}</ref> Commodore fans celebrated by throwing some 3,000 seat cushions onto the field. The game features prominently in Vanderbilt's history.<ref name="Traughber">cf. {{cite web|url=http://www.vucommodores.com/ot/history-corner-083006.html|title=CHC- Vandy Ties Michigan in 1922|author=Bill Traughber|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201232953/http://www.vucommodores.com/ot/history-corner-083006.html|archive-date=February 1, 2016}}</ref> That same year, Alabama upset [[Penn Quakers football|Penn]] 9 to 7.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bryantmuseum.com/TLGDetails.asp?GameDate=11/4/1922|title=Alabama vs. Pennsylvania|access-date=March 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402212820/http://bryantmuseum.com/TLGDetails.asp?GameDate=11%2F4%2F1922|archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref> Vanderbilt's line coach then was [[Wallace Wade]], who coached [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] to the South's first [[1926 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] victory in 1925. This game is commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cptr.ua.edu/news/roses.htm |title=The Football Game That Changed the South |publisher=The University of Alabama |access-date=October 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526010552/http://www.cptr.ua.edu/news/roses.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2008}}</ref> Wade followed up the next season with an undefeated record and [[1927 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] tie. Georgia's 1927 "[[1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team|dream and wonder team]]" [[1927 Georgia vs. Yale football game|defeated]] [[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale]] for the first time. Georgia Tech, led by Heisman protégé [[William Alexander (coach)|William Alexander]], gave the dream and wonder team its only loss, and the next year were national and [[1929 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] champions. The Rose Bowl included [[Roy Riegels]]' wrong-way run. On October 12, 1929, Yale lost to Georgia in [[Sanford Stadium]] in its first trip to the south. Wade's Alabama again won a national championship and [[1931 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] in 1930.
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