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1894 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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

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:

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