1920 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Football Season
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The 1920 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the
college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football in the United States, American football rules first gained populari ...
games played by the member schools of the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conferen ...
as part of the
1920 college football season The 1920 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California, Georgia, Harvard, Notre Dame, and Princeton as national champions. Only California and Princeton claim na ...
. The season began on September 23 with conference member Auburn hosting the Marion Military Institute.
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and
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both claim conference championships with undefeated records, as would Tulane. Clyde Berryman retroactively selected Georgia as a national champion.


Regular season

SIAA teams in bold.


Week One


Week Two


Week Three


Week Four


Week Five


Week Six


Week Seven


Week Eight


Week Nine


Week Ten


Week Eleven


Awards and honors


All-Americans

*E –
Bill Fincher William Enoch Fincher (November 12, 1896 – July 17, 1978) was an American college football player and coach. He played the End (gridiron football), end and Tackle (gridiron football position), tackle positions for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacke ...
,
Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
(WC-1, LP-1
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*G – Dummy Lebey, Georgia Tech (LP-2) *QB –
Bo McMillin Alvin Nugent "Bo" McMillin (January 12, 1895 – March 31, 1952) was an American football player and coach at the collegiate and professional level. He played college football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he was a three-tim ...
,
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(FW; INS-3; WC-2; UP-2; WE-1; NEA-1; LP-2 b *HB –
Buck Flowers Allen Ralph "Buck" Flowers, Jr. (March 26, 1899 – April 8, 1983) was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Davidson Wildcats football team of Davidson College in 1917 and for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado footbal ...
, Georgia Tech (UP-3 b INS-3)


All-Southern team

The following includes the composite All-Southern eleven formed by the selection of 27 coaches and sporting writers culled by the ''
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'' and ''Atlanta Journal''.


References

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