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re: Best football team to ever exist?
Posted on 12/13/23 at 11:33 am to Decker
Posted on 12/13/23 at 11:33 am to Decker
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Without question, it is the 1888 Yale team coached by Walter Camp. 13-0. Outscored opponents 694-0. We are all living in their shadow.
1899 Sewanee would like a word with you...
With just 18 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" embarked on a ten-day, 2,500 mile train trip, where they played five games in six days. Sewanee had five shutout wins over Texas (in Austin), Texas A&M (in Houston), Tulane (in New Orleans), LSU (in Baton Rouge), and Ole Miss (in Memphis). Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw." The road trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."
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