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The 1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team represented the
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during the
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. The second of first two opponents is unknown. The 1901 team was likely the best football team in Nashville's history. Coached by
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, though they lost to southern power Vanderbilt, they "mopped up with about everything else."


Schedule


Season summary


At Mooney School

To open the season, Nashville defeated the Mooney School 11–0. The starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackburn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hawkins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Church (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Holland (fullback).


At Texas

Nashville tied the
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5–5, in front of what was then the largest crowd ever to see a game in
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. The starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackborn (left tackle), Peake (left guard) Hawkins (center), Majors (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).


Auburn

Nashville upset
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23–5.


Tennessee

Nashville surprised again and beat
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16–5. Tennessee had just come off a tie of Clemson, when Clemson had in turn come off a 122–0 victory on opening day.


Sewanee

Sources: Arguably the year's biggest win, Nashville kept up its win streak and beat
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39–6, then the worst defeat ever suffered by Sewanee. Nashville simply outweighed the Tigers.
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scored first. Biddle once got a touchdown on a 35-yard run. The starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackburn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hankins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).


At Kentucky University

Nashville beat state champion
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in Lexington 5–0. Kentucky governor
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made a 15-yard kick to ceremonially start the contest. Fullback Bidwell made the touchdown.


At Vanderbilt

Three Nashville players were ruled ineligible. The Commodores practiced in secret for ten days in preparation. Vanderbilt faced Nashville on
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and won 10–0 in front of 4 to 5,000 spectators, using "Harvard tactics." After thirty minutes of gameplay,
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scored a touchdown taking the wind out of the sails of Nashville rooters. A riot broke out downtown the next day. According to the account of the event in the Nashville Banner (repudiated in the Hustler), the trouble started when a number of Vanderbilt students "tried to paint the stone fence of the University of Nashville yellow and black." The starting lineup was Choate (left end), Blackborn (left tackle), Majors (left guard) Hankins (center), Peake (right guard), Keller (right tackle), Kuykendall (right end), Pollard (quarterback), Reeves (left halfback), F. White (right halfback), Biddle (fullback).


Postseason

Amidst charges of professionalism, Nashville was blacklisted from the SIAA.


References

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