page_title: 1911 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
section_title: Ty Cobb
hierarchical_section_title: 1911 Vanderbilt Commodores football team / Season summary / Week 9: Sewanee and Ty Cobb / Ty Cobb
caption_attribution_description: Ty Cobb portrait photograph
context_page_description: The 1911 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1911 college football season. It was Dan McGugin's 8th year as head coach. The team outscored its opponents 259 to 9, winning an undisputed Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title.
  Edwin Pope's Football's Greatest Coaches notes: "A lightning-swift backfield of Lew Hardage, Wilson Collins, Ammie Sikes, and Ray Morrison pushed Vandy through 1911 with only a 9–8 loss to Michigan." The Atlanta Constitution voted Vanderbilt's the best backfield in the South. Morrison is considered one of the best quarterbacks in Vanderbilt's long history
context_section_description: Ty Cobb traveled to Nashville on the Monday of the week of the Sewanee game to act in the play The College Widow. Cobb watched the team practice and donned a Vanderbilt uniform to practice with the team during the week, including punts and drop-kicks.
caption: Ty Cobb (pictured) practiced as a Vanderbilt football player in 1911.
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