CockyTatGuy
09-26-2005, 01:44 AM
In 1912 that is, I was browsing the Vandy athletic site and came across this article. Oh how the mighty have fallen...
The Tennessean gave this report:
A waterlogged pasture was the enraging spectacle which presented itself to the eyes of those brave enough to drill out to Dudley field yesterday afternoon, where incidentally, Vanderbilt amassed 105 points to Bethel’s nothing. That is the largest score, if the records are correct, ever made by an athletic team of Vanderbilt. Once in the long ago, the Commodores scored 98 points against the University of Nashville and later, they with the count to 104 points against Central of Kentucky.
Naturally, it makes the Commodores look pretty good on paper to say that they opened the season by breaking a record with only two week’s practice, much of which was done in very hot weather and before a number of the varsity men had arrived. Nevertheless, it was not a great victory. Bethel was lamentably weak on defense on the offense they did come within hailing distance of a first down. But for all that, some of those Bethel men, notably Captain Cody, played gritty football. Their main trouble was lack of unity in action. They were not well trained along football lines, although physically, they seemed never to be in distress.
The Tennessean gave this report:
A waterlogged pasture was the enraging spectacle which presented itself to the eyes of those brave enough to drill out to Dudley field yesterday afternoon, where incidentally, Vanderbilt amassed 105 points to Bethel’s nothing. That is the largest score, if the records are correct, ever made by an athletic team of Vanderbilt. Once in the long ago, the Commodores scored 98 points against the University of Nashville and later, they with the count to 104 points against Central of Kentucky.
Naturally, it makes the Commodores look pretty good on paper to say that they opened the season by breaking a record with only two week’s practice, much of which was done in very hot weather and before a number of the varsity men had arrived. Nevertheless, it was not a great victory. Bethel was lamentably weak on defense on the offense they did come within hailing distance of a first down. But for all that, some of those Bethel men, notably Captain Cody, played gritty football. Their main trouble was lack of unity in action. They were not well trained along football lines, although physically, they seemed never to be in distress.