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Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vanderbilt was founded in 1873 with a gift of $1 million by shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt who, despite having never been to the South, hoped his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War.
Today, Vanderbilt enrolls around 11,000 students in ten schools—four undergraduate and six graduate and professional. Also affiliated with the university are several research facilities and a world-renowned medical center, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), which is the only Level I Trauma Center in Middle Tennessee.
Vanderbilt is a member of the Association of American Universities, to whose membership it was elected in 1950.
Early success
Vanderbilt and the University of Nashville played the first college football game in the state of Tennessee in 1890. [3] In 1894 Vanderbilt was among the seven founding members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. [4] Just after the turn of the century, the team enjoyed fairly substantial success, with a composite record of 20-3-2 from 1901-03. [5] Even so, Dan McGugin's arrival as coach from his brother-in-law Fielding Yost's Michigan program in 1904 showed an immediate impact. The 1904 squad outscored its opposition by 474 to four in winning all nine games. [6] McGugin's tenure spanned the years 1904-17 and 1919-34 with a record of 197-55-19 -- and two national championships.
Although McGugin never managed to defeat Michigan, the 1922 0-0 tie with the Wolverines to inaugurate Dudley Field figures prominently in the program's history. VU football historian Bill Traughber chronicles the event:
The game between Vanderbilt and Michigan had a carnival-like atmosphere.
Dignitaries and politicians were invited to participate at Dudley Field, the largest football-only stadium in the South at that time. The guest of honor for the dedication game was Cornelius Vanderbilt, the great-great grandson of the university's namesake.
Accompanied by his wife, Vanderbilt arrived at Nashville's Union Station on the morning of the game, his first trip to the city. The day's first event was a luncheon for the young Vanderbilt couple, which was held at the Hermitage Hotel and hosted by Vanderbilt University Board of Trust.
Thousands of Vanderbilt students and alumni met downtown for a parade with Tennessee Governor Alf Taylor riding in the lead automobile. Decorated in orange and black, their automobile began the parade at Twelfth and Broadway, weaving through the side streets to a reviewing stand at the foot of the Capitol Building.
In 1932, Vanderbilt -- at the pinnacle of its athletics dominance in the South[9] -- helped found the Southeastern Conference, with Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Georgia Tech, and Tulane.
Growing difficulty
However, Vanderbilt football has not won a conference championship since the foundation of the Southeastern Conference in 1932, and its last winning season was in 1982 under coach George McIntyre. In its entire history, Vanderbilt has only competed in three bowl games (see below), with a combined all-time post-season record of 1-1-1.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, Vanderbilt football steadily worsened as the University's academic prestige increased and as fellow SEC institutions' programs developed into the national powerhouses that they are today. A program that had once been the bastion of college football in the South, became a perennial losing team, with only momentary flashes of potential.
It was in the late 1970s and early 1980s that it seemed this trend could be abating, with two of Vanderbilt's post-season appearances coming in 1974 and 1982, and with several near-winning season records.
The last Commodore team with a winning record, the 1982 squad (with a record of 8-4), played in the Hall of Fame Bowl. In addition to the school's third all-time bowl appearance, the 1982 team's season-ending win against Tennessee, in which Vanderbilt quarterback Whit Taylor threw for 391 yards, was marked as a special season -- but as a season that proved an exception to years following, when a return to previous levels of mediocrity saw a veritable merry-go-round of head coaches.
From the period 1982 to 2002, when Bobby Johnson was hired, Vanderbilt was led by six coaches, who averaged barely four years per coach. |
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