page_title: 1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
section_title: Backfield
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football team / Personnel / Varsity letter winners / Backfield
caption_attribution_description: English: Jess Neely in uniform as circa 1921, on the Vanderbilt Commodores football team.
context_page_description: The 1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1922 Southern Conference football season. During the season, Dan McGugin's 18th as head coach, Vanderbilt compiled a record of 8–0–1 and outscored its opponents 177 to 16. The Commodores' defense was unrivaled in the South, leading the nation in giving up just 1.8 points per game, none of them at home. The season included a tie with Michigan at the dedication of the new Dudley Field; the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football. The season was immediately dubbed one of the best in Vanderbilt and Southern football history.
  It was also Vanderbilt's first year in the newly formed Southern Conference, in which the team tied with North Carolina and Georgia Tech for the conference championship. This was Vanderbilt's second consecutive season as leader of its conference, having tied with Georgia, Centre, and Georgia Tech for the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title in 1921.
caption: Captain Jess Neely
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