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1894 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1894
team	Vanderbilt Commodores
sport	football
image	1894Vandy.jpg
image_size	285
conference	Independent
record	7–1
head_coach	Henry Worth Thornton
hc_year	1st
captain	W. J. Keller
stadium	Dudley Field

The 1894 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team's head coach was Henry Worth Thornton, who only coached one season in that capacity at Vanderbilt.

Schedule

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Game summaries

In the third game of the season, against the Louisville Athletic Club, bad officiating calls against Vanderbilt lead to team captain W. J. Keller to pull his team off the field before the game was over in the second half and resulted in an 10–8 loss.

Louisville Athletic Club

The game was away in Louisville with a crowd of over 500 persons. The Nashville American gave this report:

(Note at the time a touchdown was worth 4 points and the conversion was 2 points.)
The American added Coach Thornton's comments as:
The Louisville newspaper also revealed a letter to their newspaper as:

References

. (October 17, 1894). ["Game at Memphis"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85315708/nashville-banner/). *[[Nashville Banner]]*.
. (October 17, 1894). ["Vanderbilt Boys"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85316080/the-tennessean/). *[[The Tennessean*.
(October 20, 1894). "Vanderbilt wins; Center College of Kentucky goes down in defeat". Nashville Banner.
. (October 29, 1894). ["Football Games"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85315188/nashville-banner/). *[[Nashville Banner]]*.
(November 7, 1894). "Vanderbilt wins". Tuscaloosa Weekly Times.
(November 11, 1894). "A sweeping victory, Vanderbilt finds easy prey in the cotton pickers". The Nashville American.
(November 22, 1894). "Another victory; Vanderbilt defeats Central University at football". Nashville Banner.
(November 25, 1894). "Vanderbilt 62 to 0, simply played horse with the Cumberland eleven". The Nashville American.
(November 30, 1894). "Vanderbilt 12, Sewanee 0". The Commercial Appeal.
"Vanderbilt Commodores | Official Athletic Site".

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