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1935 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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1935 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 7 LSU $ 5 0 0 9 2 0
Vanderbilt 5 1 0 7 3 0
Ole Miss 3 1 0 9 3 0
No. 15 Auburn 5 2 0 8 2 0
No. 17 Alabama 4 2 0 6 2 1
Tulane 3 3 0 6 4 0
Kentucky 3 3 0 5 4 0
Georgia Tech 3 4 0 5 5 0
Mississippi State 2 3 0 8 3 0
Tennessee 2 3 0 4 5 0
Georgia 2 4 0 6 4 0
Florida 1 6 0 3 7 0
Sewanee 0 6 0 2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from United Press

The 1936 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1936 college football season. The Commodores were led by Ray Morrison, who was serving in the second stent as head and 2nd year overall as head coach. Vanderbilt went 7–3–1 Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southern Conference since 1932, the Commodores went 5–1 in conference play and finished 2nd. They played their six home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The 5– 1 mark is the best record that Vanderbilt has had since joining the SEC. The five wins is the high mark for Vanderbilt and not matched until 2012 77 years.

Team captain was Charles W Geny, Vandy started out with three wins and then lost the next three, Vanderbilt bounced back by winning out the last 4 games, beating Georgia Tech, Rivals Sewanee and Tennessee and Alabama. In the 3 game slide Vandy lost to LSU who was 9-2 overall and 6-0 in SEC play. The is the best Vandy has been in the SEC to this day.

Schedule

September 21Union*

W 34–0   September 28Mississippi State

  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN

W 14–9   October 5Cumberland*

  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN

W 32–7   October 12at Temple*

L 3–6   October 19at Fordham*

L 7–13   October 26LSU

  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN

L 2–7   November 2at Georgia Tech

W 14–13   November 19Sewaneedagger

  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN

W 46–0   November 16at Tennessee

W 13–7   November 28Alabama

  • Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN

W 14–6  

Template:CFB Schedule End [1]

References

  1. ^ "Coaching Records Game by Game: Ray Morrison 1935". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved November 21, 2012.