1926 Southern Conference football season

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1926 Southern Conference football season
League NCAA
Sport College football
Duration September 18, 1926
through January 1, 1927
Number of teams 22
Regular Season
Season champions Alabama
Football seasons
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1927 →
1926 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Alabama $ 8 – 0 – 0     9 – 0 – 1
Tennessee 5 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
Vanderbilt 4 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
South Carolina 4 – 2 – 0     6 – 4 – 0
Georgia 4 – 2 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Virginia 4 – 2 – 1     6 – 2 – 2
VPI 3 – 2 – 1     5 – 3 – 1
Washington and Lee 3 – 2 – 1     4 – 3 – 2
Georgia Tech 4 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
North Carolina 3 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Auburn 3 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
LSU 3 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 0
Ole Miss 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Mississippi A&M 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
VMI 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 5 – 0
Tulane 2 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 1
Maryland 1 – 3 – 1     5 – 4 – 1
Clemson 1 – 3 – 0     2 – 7 – 0
Florida 1 – 4 – 1     2 – 6 – 2
Kentucky 1 – 4 – 1     2 – 6 – 1
NC State 0 – 4 – 0     4 – 6 – 0
Sewanee 0 – 5 – 0     2 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1926 Southern Conference football season began on September 18.

In the annual Rose Bowl game, the SoCon champion Alabama Crimson Tide tied the PCC champion, and #1 ranked team under the Dickinson System, Stanford 7–7. Alabama and Stanford therefore were amongst those named a national champion. Alabama guard Fred Pickhard was the Rose Bowl game's MVP.

Regular season

Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SoCon member won
Non-conference matchup; SoCon member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SoCon teams in bold.

Week One

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
September 18 Erskine Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC W 7–0
September 18 Wofford VMI Lexington, VA W 20–0

Week Two

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
September 24 Millsaps Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, AL W 54–0
September 25 Chattanooga Auburn Rickwood Field • Birmingham, AL W 15–6
September 25 Florida Southern Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, FL W 16–0
September 25 Presbyterian Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC L 14–0
September 25 Mercer Georgia Sanford Field • Athens, GA W 20–0
September 25 Oglethorpe Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA L 7–6
September 25 Northwestern State LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA W 47–0
September 25 Washington (MD) Maryland Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD W 63–0
September 25 Arkansas State Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS W 28–0
September 25 Birmingham-Southern Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS W 19–7
September 25 Wake Forest North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC L 6–0
September 25 Elon North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC W 13–0
September 25 Bryson Sewanee McGee Field • Sewanee, TN W 15–0
September 25 Erskine South Carolina Columbia, SC W 41–0
September 25 Carson-Newman Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 13–0
September 25 Louisiana Tech Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA W 40–0
September 25 Middle Tennessee State Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 69–0
September 25 Hampden-Sydney Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA T 0–0
September 25 Richmond VMI Lexington, VA W 10–0
September 25 Roanoke Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA W 47–0
September 25 Lynchburg Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, VA W 35–0

Week Three

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 2 Alabama Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN ALA 19–7
October 2 Clemson Auburn Drake Field • Auburn, AL AUB 47–0
October 2 Florida Chicago Stagg Field • Chicago, IL L 12–6
October 2 VMI Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA GT 13–0
October 2 Maryville Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, KY W 25–0
October 2 Louisiana-Lafayette LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA W 34–0
October 2 Ole Miss Arkansas The Hill • Fayetteville, AR L 21–6
October 2 Mississippi College Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS W 41–0
October 2 Maryland South Carolina Columbia, SC SCAR 12–0
October 2 Furman North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC L 31–0
October 2 Middle Tennessee State Sewanee McGee Field • Sewanee, TN W 48–0
October 2 North Carolina Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN TENN 34–0
October 2 Tulane Missouri Columbia, MO T 6–6
October 2 Georgia Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA UGA 27–7
October 2 Hampden-Sydney Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA W 30–0
October 2 Washington & Lee West Virginia Charleston, WV L 18–0

Week Four

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 9 Alabama Mississippi A&M Meridian, MS ALA 26–7
October 9 Auburn Howard Rickwood Field • Birmingham, AL W 33–14
October 9 North Carolina State Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC CLEM 7–3
October 9 Ole Miss Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, FL MISS 12–7
October 9 Georgia Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT L 19–0
October 9 Tulane Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA GT 9–6
October 9 Kentucky Indiana Bloomington, IN L 14–6
October 9 Tennessee LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA TENN 14–7
October 9 Maryland Chicago Stagg Field • Chicago, IL L 21–0
October 9 South Carolina North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC UNC 7–0
October 9 Sewanee Texas A&M Dallas, TX L 6–3
October 9 Bryson Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 48–0
October 9 Lynchburg Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA W 38–0
October 9 Virginia Tech Dartmouth Hanover, NH L 20–0
October 9 Roanoke VMI Lexington, VA L 13–7
October 9 Washington & Lee Princeton Palmer Stadium • Princeton, NJ T 7–7

Week Five

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 15 Wofford South Carolina Columbia, SC W 27–13
October 15 Maryville Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 6–0
October 16 Alabama Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA ALA 21–0
October 16 LSU Auburn Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, AL LSU 10–0
October 16 Mercer Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, FL L 6–3
October 16 Furman Georgia Augusta, GA L 14–7
October 16 Virginia Tech Maryland Norfolk, VA VT 24–8
October 16 Loyola Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS W 13–7
October 16 Millsaps Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS W 34–0
October 16 Duke North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC W 6–0
October 16 Davidson North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC L 3–0
October 16 Vanderbilt Texas Fair Park Stadium • Dallas, TX W 7–0
October 16 Virginia VMI Lexington, VA UVA 14–7
October 16 Washington & Lee Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, KY W&L 14–13

Week Six

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 21 Clemson South Carolina Columbia, SC SCAR 24–0
October 23 Sewanee Alabama Birmingham, AL ALA 2–0
October 23 Auburn Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA AUB 2–0
October 23 Kentucky Florida Jacksonville, FL UK 18–13
October 23 Washington & Lee Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA GT 19–7
October 23 Mississippi A&M LSU Jackson, MS MSA&M 7–6
October 23 North Carolina Maryland Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD MD 14–6
October 23 Centre Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 30–7
October 23 Georgia Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN VAN 14–13
October 23 North Carolina State VMI Richmond, VA VMI 7–0
October 23 Virginia Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA VT 6–0

Week Seven

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 28 South Carolina The Citadel County Fairgrounds • Orangeburg, SC L 12–9
October 28 Clemson Wofford Spartanburg, SC L 3–0
October 30 LSU Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, AL ALA 24–0
October 30 Sewanee Auburn Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, AL AUB 9–0
October 30 Florida Georgia Sanford Field • Athens, GA UGA 32–9
October 30 Georgia Tech Notre Dame South Bend, IN L 12–0
October 30 Gallaudet Maryland Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD W 38–7
October 30 Ole Miss Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA TUL 6–0
October 30 Tennessee Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS TENN 33–0
October 30 North Carolina State North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC UNC 12–0
October 30 Virginia Tech Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, KY T 13–13
October 30 Virginia South Carolina Columbia, SC UVA 6–0
October 30 Rhodes Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 50–0
October 30 Davidson VMI Lynchburg, VA W 12–7

Week Eight

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 6 Kentucky Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham, AL ALA 14–0
November 6 Auburn Georgia McClung Stadium • Columbus, GA UGA 16–6
November 6 Clemson Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, FL FLA 33–0
November 6 Vanderbilt Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA VAN 13–7
November 6 Arkansas LSU State Fair Stadium • Shreveport, LA W 14–0
November 6 Maryland Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT W 15–0
November 6 Ole Miss Rhodes Memphis, TN W 32–27
November 6 Mississippi A&M Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA MSA&M 14–0
November 6 VMI North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC UNC 28–0
November 6 Lenoir-Rhyne North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC W 6–0
November 6 South Carolina Virginia Tech Richmond, VA SCAR 19–0
November 6 Sewanee Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN TENN 12–0
November 6 Washington & Lee Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA UVA 30–7

Week Nine

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 13 Florida Alabama Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, AL ALA 49–0
November 13 Marquette Auburn Rickwood Field • Birmingham, AL L 19–3
November 13 The Citadel Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC L 15–6
November 13 Georgia Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA UGA 14–13
November 13 Kentucky VMI Charleston, WV VMI 10–9
November 13 Ole Miss LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA LSU 3–0
November 13 Mississippi A&M Indiana Bloomington, IN L 19–6
November 13 Davidson North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC L 10–0
November 13 Duke North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC W 26–19
November 13 Furman South Carolina Columbia, SC L 10–7
November 13 Tennessee Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN VAN 20–3
November 13 Sewanee Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA TUL 19–7
November 13 Maryland Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA T 6–6
November 13 Virginia Tech Washington & Lee Lynchburg, VA W&L 13–0

Week Ten

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 20 Centre Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, KY L 7–0
November 20 North Carolina State South Carolina Columbia, SC SCAR 20–14
November 20 Sewanee Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN VAN 13–0
November 20 Randolph-Macon Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA W 57–0
November 20 Maryland Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, VA W&L 3–0

Week Eleven

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 23 North Carolina Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA UVA 3–0
November 25 Georgia Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham, AL ALA 33–6
November 25 Auburn Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA GT 20–7
November 25 Clemson Furman Manly Field • Greenville, SC L 30–0
November 25 LSU Tulane Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA LSU 7–0
November 25 Washington & Lee Florida Barrs Field • Jacksonville, FL T 7–7
November 25 Maryland Johns Hopkins Baltimore, MD W 17–14
November 25 Ole Miss Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS MISS 7–6
November 25 Kentucky Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN TENN 6–0
November 25 VMI Virginia Tech Roanoke, VA VT 14–7
November 27 Wake Forest North Carolina State Raleigh, NC W 7–3

Bowl games

Date Bowl Game Site SIAA Team Opponent Score
January 1, 1927 Rose Bowl Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA Alabama Stanford T 7–7

Awards and honors

All-Americans

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Main article: 1926 College Football All-America Team

All-Southern team

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Main article: 1926 College Football All-Southern Team

The composite All-Southern team compiled by the Associated Press included:[1]

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Bill Spears 155 Jr. Jasper, Tennessee Vanderbilt
HB George Morton Sr. Georgia
HB Red Barnes 172 Sr. Suggsville, Alabama Alabama
FB Ty Rauber 5'10" 170 Sr. Washington, D. C. Washington & Lee
E Hoyt Winslett 172 Sr. Horseshoe Bend, Alabama Alabama
T Curtis Luckey Sr. Georgia
G Fred Pickhard 6'2" 201 Jr. Mobile, Alabama Alabama
C Gordon Holmes Sr. Springville, Alabama Alabama
G Charles Mackall 6'1" 205 Sr. Washington, D. C. Virginia
T John Barnhill 175 Jr. Savannah, Tennessee Tennessee
E Herschel Caldwell Sr. Des Arc, Missouri Alabama

References

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