The 1921 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the

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games played by the member schools of the

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as part of the

1921 college football season The 1921 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing California Golden Bears, Cornell Big Red, Iowa Hawkeyes, Lafayette Leopards, Washington & Jefferson Presidents, and V ...

. The season began on September 23 with conference member

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visiting Athens. Conference play began on September 24 with

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defeating

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, and Vanderbilt can all claim Southern championships. Centre and Georgia Tech both posted unblemished conference records. Georgia and Vanderbilt tied each other in their contest deciding a champion. This is the last year before many major programs move to the

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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

Bowl games

Awards and honors

All-Americans

*E –

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(WC-1; FW-2 JV-3; MM-2) *E –

Owen Reynolds Owen Gaston Reynolds (January 12, 1900 – March 11, 1984) was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). Reynolds played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, receiving All-Souther ...

(FW-3) *G – Puss Whelchel, Georgia (WC-3) *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 ...

, Centre (FW-1; WC-2; LP-1 b BE-2; JV-2; MM-1; NB-1) *HB –

Red Barron David Irenus "Red" Barron (June 21, 1900 – October 4, 1982) was an American football and baseball player. Barron was a three-sport Varsity letter, letterwinner at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In football, he was named second or third t ...

(JV-3) *FB –

Judy Harlan Julian Washington "Judy" Harlan Jr. (November 6, 1896 – May 20, 1978) was an American college football player for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the fullback in Georgia Tech's famou ...

, Georgia Tech (WC-3; FW-3)

All-Southern team

The following includes the composite All-Southern eleven awarded gold badges and formed by 30 sports writers culled by the ''

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'' and ''Atlanta Journal''.

References

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