Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 college football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the Southern United States and the 1899 team in particular was very strong. In 1899, the team went 12–0, outscoring opponents 322 to 10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. Known as the "Iron Men," with just 13 men they had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. It is recalled memorably with the phrase "...and on the seventh day they rested." Grantland Rice called them "the most durable football team I ever saw."The 11 extra points against Cumberland by B. U. Sims is still a school record. The offense was led by Diddy Seibels; the defense by Ormond Simkins. Ormond was the son of William Stewart Simkins, who may have fired the first shot of the American Civil War. John Heisman's Auburn team was the only one to score on Sewanee.Several writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest ever. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno once said "While there are some who would swear to the contrary, I did not see the 1899 Sewanee football team play in person. Winning five road games in six days, all by shutout scores, has to be one of the most staggering achievements in the history of the sport. If the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) had been in effect in 1899, there seems little doubt Sewanee would have played in the title game. And they wouldn’t have been done in by any computer ratings." Tony Barnhart in Southern Fried Football: The History, Passion and Glory of the Great Southern Game listed Sewanee as his number 1 Southern football team of all-time. A 16-team playoff to determine the best team in college football history with winners decided by fan votes was run by the College Football Hall of Fame, called the "March of the Gridiron Champions." Sewanee, starting at the lowest seed, won the tournament, beating such teams as the 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team and 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team."@en }
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- 1899_Sewanee_Tigers_football_team abstract "The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 college football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the Southern United States and the 1899 team in particular was very strong. In 1899, the team went 12–0, outscoring opponents 322 to 10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. Known as the "Iron Men," with just 13 men they had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. It is recalled memorably with the phrase "...and on the seventh day they rested." Grantland Rice called them "the most durable football team I ever saw."The 11 extra points against Cumberland by B. U. Sims is still a school record. The offense was led by Diddy Seibels; the defense by Ormond Simkins. Ormond was the son of William Stewart Simkins, who may have fired the first shot of the American Civil War. John Heisman's Auburn team was the only one to score on Sewanee.Several writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest ever. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno once said "While there are some who would swear to the contrary, I did not see the 1899 Sewanee football team play in person. Winning five road games in six days, all by shutout scores, has to be one of the most staggering achievements in the history of the sport. If the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) had been in effect in 1899, there seems little doubt Sewanee would have played in the title game. And they wouldn’t have been done in by any computer ratings." Tony Barnhart in Southern Fried Football: The History, Passion and Glory of the Great Southern Game listed Sewanee as his number 1 Southern football team of all-time. A 16-team playoff to determine the best team in college football history with winners decided by fan votes was run by the College Football Hall of Fame, called the "March of the Gridiron Champions." Sewanee, starting at the lowest seed, won the tournament, beating such teams as the 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team and 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team.".