Battle of Backbone Mountain

1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Georgia Tech $	3	–	0	–	0			6	–	1	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	0	–	0			4	–	2	–	0
Mississippi A&M	2	–	0	–	0			3	–	2	–	0
Clemson	3	–	1	–	0			5	–	2	–	0
South Carolina	2	–	1	–	1			2	–	1	–	1
Furman	1	–	3	–	0			3	–	5	–	1
Sewanee	0	–	1	–	0			3	–	2	–	0
The Citadel	0	–	1	–	1			0	–	2	–	1
Auburn	0	–	2	–	0			2	–	5	–	0
Ole Miss	0	–	2	–	0			1	–	3	–	0
Wofford	0	–	2	–	0			0	–	3	–	0
$ – Conference champion There were several SIAA schools that did not field a team due to World War I.

The 1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1918 college football season. The season began on September 28.

Georgia Tech was conference champion. Center Bum Day was the first Southern player ever selected to Walter Camp's All-America first-team.

Regular season

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

SIAA teams in bold.

Week One

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
September 28	Camp Sevier	Clemson	Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina	W 65–0

Week Two

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 5	Clemson	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	GT 28–0

Week Three

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 12	Furman	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	GT 118–0

Week Four

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 19	Oglethorpe	Auburn	Drake Field • Auburn, Alabama	W 58–0
October 19	Camp Greenleaf	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee	L 6–0
October 19	11th Cavalry	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	W 123–0

Week Five

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
October 26	Camp Griffin	Auburn	Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama	L 26–0
October 26	Camp Hancock	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee	L 25–6
October 26	Camp Gordon	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	W 28–0
October 26	Morgan	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, Tennessee	W 68–6

Week Six

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 2	Camp Greenleaf	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, Tennessee	L 14–0
November 2	Clemson	South Carolina	Columbia, South Carolina	CLEM 39–0
November 2	48th Infantry	Furman	Greenville, South Carolina	W 20–7
November 2	Sewanee	Tennessee	Waite Field • Knoxville, Tennessee	W 68–0
November 2	Kentucky	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee	W 33–0
November 3	Auburn	Marion	Marion, Alabama	W 20–7

Week Seven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 9	Auburn	Camp Gordon	Columbus, Georgia	W 14–6
November 9	Furman	South Carolina	Florence, South Carolina	SCAR 26–0
November 9	Camp Hancock	Clemson	Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina	L 66–13
November 9	Erskine	Furman	Greenville, South Carolina	T 6–6
November 9	Camp Shelby	Mississippi A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi	W 12–0
November 9	Payne Field	Ole Miss	West Point, Mississippi	L 6–0
November 9	Tennessee (SATC)	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee	W 76–0
November 10	North Carolina A&M	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	W 128–0

Week Eight

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 16	Clemson	The Citadel	Columbia, South Carolina	CLEM 7–0
November 16	Erskine	Wofford	Spartanburg, South Carolina	L 27–0
November 16	Union (TN)	Ole Miss	Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi	W 39–0
November 16	Park Field	Mississippi A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi	L 6–0
November 16	Vanderbilt	Auburn	Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama	VAN 21–0
November 16	Fort Oglethorpe	Sewanee	Chattanooga, Tennessee	W 24–6
November 16	South Carolina	Furman	Greenville, South Carolina	SCAR 20–12

Week Nine

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 22	Charleston Navy	The Citadel	College Park Stadium • Charleston, South Carolina	L 6–0
November 23	Furman	Clemson	Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina	CLEM 68–7
November 23	Georgia Tech	Pittsburgh	Forbes Field • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	L 32–0
November 23	Wofford	South Carolina	Columbia, South Carolina	SCAR 13–0

Week Ten

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
November 28	Clemson	Davidson	• Charlotte, North Carolina	W 7–0
November 28	Auburn	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta	GT 41–0
November 28	Ole Miss	Mississippi A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi	MSA&M 34–0
November 28	The Citadel	South Carolina	County Fairgrounds • Orangeburg, South Carolina	T 0–0
November 28	Sewanee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee	VAN 40–0
November 30	2nd Dev. Regiment	Furman	Greenville, South Carolina	L 13–7

Week Eleven

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result	Attendance	Reference
December 4	Furman	Wofford	Spartanburg, South Carolina	FUR 7–0
December 7	Mississippi A&M	Ole Miss	Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi	MSA&M 13–0
December 7	Presbyterian	Furman	Greenville, South Carolina	L 13–7

Awards and honors

All-Americans

• E – Bill Fincher, Georgia Tech (MS; TM-1, WC-2)
• T – Joe Guyon, Georgia Tech (MS)
• C – Bum Day, Georgia Tech (WC-1)
• HB – Buck Flowers, Georgia Tech (WC-2 [fb]; TM-2)

References