Centre at Sewanee
Saturday, November 10, 1923 Share
Centre beat Sewanee 20–6. It was their third meeting; after it, Centre led the series 3–0.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 34°F
In the newspapers

The Birmingham age-herald, November 12, 1923, page 8 (results column)
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MANY SURPRISES MARK PLAY W SOUTHERN CONFERENCE Tech Shows Unexpected Strength At Penn State While Auburn And Alabama Also Show Unexpected Re- suits ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 11.-Numerous surprises at home and five defeats one of them a startling near vic- tory-for southern teams away from home marked Dixie’s week end grid iron activities. 2 Georgia Techs work in holding Penn State to- a to score seemed overshadowed by Maryland’s feat in holding Yale to a 14 to 0 disadvan- tage through two periods, finally succumbing to the Els by a 16–14 count. Washington and Lee, with a per- feet average in Southern conference play, fell completely before the West Virginia Mountaineers 63–0 in 8 third intersectional contest “Bo” McMil- lin’s Centenary husktes from Louis jana fought Boston college all the way, lacking clean-cut aggressive ness, lost IA to 0. Rutgers, taking on the fifth southern foe of the day, played with Richmond for 56 to 0 count. The University of Georgia chung to and made more impressive its leader ship of the Southern conference by vanquishing Virginia at Athens IS to 0. The Bulldogs coupled cavalier miscuses and fortunate breaks for two touchdowns and victory. The invasion of Virginia by North heel elevens. Virginia Polytechnic, after being held scoreless in the first half by North Carolina State, counted Is points in the final periods, Ruther- ford starting the scoring with field goal in the third. State failed to register a score. Virginia Military institute, though forced to great exertion, finally walked over North Carolina university, to O. with 8 field goal in the opening quarter and & bare touchdown at the close, aided by an aerial furry. vnndy Pulls Surprise. Vanderbilt provided one of Satur- days surprises by regaining it’s stride and tearing up Tennessee uni- versity with a 51–7 score. The Com modores proved impenetrable until the final period, when the Vols reached enemy territory for the first time and plunged and passed to a touchdown. Tulane gave Auburn a surprise by holding the PiainSmen to a 6–6 de- cision at Montgomery in their annual scrap. Two touchdowns were ex- pected to mark Auburn’s superiority over the Greenies, but the Louis ianans fought with unexpected vigor. Alabama’s reputation as a team without an offensive was cracked at l luSCdlOCSd WAtA IdC VI llAoNH OPOASN up unexpectedly and subdued Ken lucky, 16–8. The victory gives Ala bama perfect conference average and removes Kentucky from the un- beaten class. Mississippi college took the meas ure of Mississippi university 6 to 0, while the Mississippi Aggles eked out a 60 victory over Union university. Loyola and Tennessee medicos played a 6c0releSS game. Florida won from Stetson, 27-o. South Carolina, playing Furman. a, non-conference member, lost 23–3. Wake Forest defeated Trinity. 16–6, and the Centre ColonelS smashed Sewanee, 20–6. Oglethorpe of Atlanta and Mercer Of Macon participated In another sur prise in Atlanta. After scoring six points in the first few seconds of play by converting kickoff Into a touchdown, Mercer was held off by the Petrels, who succeeded In adding the seventh point to touchown later. Maurer proved the individual star for the Petrels. It was Ogle- thorpe’s second victory of the season and Mercers first defeat by team in her class.

Atlanta tri-weekly journal, Atlanta, Ga., November 13, 1923, page 1 (results column)
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GEORGIA DEFEATS VIRGINIA, IS J; TECH HOLDS PENN STATE University of Georgia s slowly de veloping eleven defeated University of Virginia Saturday by 10 to 0. Neither team scored in the first half and the coaches ordered the Red and Black to cut loose with all their new plays in the latter half. Thew did, scoring two touchdoWns and being near a third when the game ended. Georgia now has defeated Mercer Oglethorpe, Tennessee, Auburn and Virginia, having lost only to Yale. They expect the hardest test of the season Saturday when they play Vanderbilt at Nashville. Vanderbilt overwhelmed University of Tennessee, running wild al! afternoon. Score, 81 to 7. Georgia had beaten Tennessee only II to 0. Georgia Tech journeyed to Penn sylvania and held Penn State to a Z to 0 score, the northerners making a touchdown shortly after the game opened. Tech fought with great courage and won the plaudits of the spectators who expected an easy vic: tory. <AIdDdllld showed us OcNClOplu% power, beating kentucky 16 to 8 but Auburn disappointed its follow ers by only tying Tulane, to 6. Centre walloped Sewanee soundly 20 to 6. Furman defeated South Carolina, % to 8, and Virginia Poly won handily from North Carolina State, 16 to 0, while V. M. 7. defeated North Carolina. to 0. On Friday Clemson outclassed Davidson and won, ~ to 0. In the east, Harvard defeated Princeton to 0. and out west Ne braska surprised the world by trim ming NOtre Dame, II to Z. Other games: Nebraska, IA; Notre Dame, I. Centre, 20: Sewanee, 6. Baylor, 7; Texas. T. Furman, %; Carolina, 3. Final: Navy. 81; st. Xavier, 0. IIino s, 10; Wisconsin,, 0. Army. Al; Arkansas Aggies. 0. Boston college. IA; Centenary. 0. Ohio State, 50; Purdue, 0. United States Marines, G.; Michigan, 26. V. p. /, 16; North Carolina State, 0. Southern Methodist university, 13; Arkansas, 6. Oklahoma, 49, Missouri, 0. Rutgers, So; Richmond, 0. IIehigh, Z; Bucknell, Z. Harvard, 5; Princeton, 0. Yale, 16; Maryland, IA. Cornell, So; Columbia, 0. Lafayette 8; Pennsylvania, 6. SYRIA, use. 49, Boston university, O.. Washington AMI Jefferson, 40; Waynesburg, 0. Detroit, 6; Carnegie Tech, (tie). Illinois, 10; Wisconsin, 0. Chicago,27j Indiana, 0. Mississippi A. and M, 6; Union university, 0. Florida. 27: Stetson, 0. Wake Forest, Is; Trinity S. Pittsburg, 13; Grove City, Z. Missouri, 0; Oklahoma, Is. Mississippi College, g. Ole Miss, O., Tennessee, Z; Vanderbilt, SO. Dartmouth, Is; Brown, IA, Howard, 27; Jacksonville Nor. NAL, 0. Hendryx, %; Millsaps, 0. Vanderbilt Freshmen. 20; Tennessee Freshmen, 0. Alabama, 16; Kentucky, s. William and Mary, IA; Delaware. Lynchhurg College. 0, Randolph Macon, 0. Carson Newman. l6; Fort Ben ming, g. Navy, 81; st. Nairer, 0. Rice. u; Southwestern. 0. Louisville, I; Kentucky Yves. leyan, o.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Centre 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Centre–Sewanee gameCentre leads 7–0 in seven meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2025 | Centre 28, Sewanee 0 | |
| 2024 | Centre 35, Sewanee 8 | |
| 2023 | Centre 54, Sewanee 22 | |
| 2022 | Centre 35, Sewanee 16 | |
| 1923 | Centre 20, Sewanee 6 | |
| 1917 | Centre 28, Sewanee 0 |
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Centre
- Next gameat AuburnNov. 17, 1923
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Sewanee
- Next gamevs. Maryville (TN)Nov. 17, 1923
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