1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team The 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1915 college football season . The team ' s head coach was Dan McGugin , who served his 12th season as the Commodores ' head coach . Vanderbilt ' s 1915 were a " point - a - minute team " . The outlook for the upcoming 1915 Vanderbilt football season was not good . The Commodores were coming off a losing record of 2 – 8 , the first under head coach Dan McGugin , and second in the school ' s 25 years of playing football . To add to this was Vanderbilt returned only 10 experienced players from the previous year , which meant inexperienced freshmen would be a key to the team ' s success . And success they did have . McGugin built his 1915 squad around a brilliant 130 pound junior quarterback in Irby " Rabbit " Curry . In the line was Josh Cody a dominating two - way sophomore tackle that was a fierce tackler and dominating blocker . Vanderbilt was a member of the SIAA and facing a 10 game schedule . The Commodores established a team record that season not equaled today . Point - a - minute . They scored a grand total of 514 points in 510 minutes of actual playing time , thus ranking them as a legitimate " point - a - minute " team . Vanderbilt averaged 51 . 4 points a game . Vanderbilt racked up 459 points before being scored upon . The team recorded seven shutouts to open the season . These victories include Tennessee Normal ( MTSU ) 51 – 0 , Southwestern 47 – 0 , Georgetown 75 – 0 , Cumberland 60 – 0 , Henderson - Brown 100 – 0 Mississippi 91 – 0 , and Tennessee , 35 – 0 . Tennessee game . The Vols were the first real test for the Commodores that came to Nashville as the SIAA defending champions and loaded with confidence . They were swamped , 35 – 0 as Curry and Bob Turner ran wild . The Rabbit got away for 50 yards the only touchdown of the first half . In the third quarter , Johnny Floyd ripped off 47 yards and Hubert Wiggs took it over . Then Turner entered the game and his first run was 35 yards to the six - yard line , where Wiggs again scored . The next time he ran 60 yards himself for the touchdown and the last score came on a 20 - yard dash by Cutter Northcutt , Curry ' s substitute . The victory was beclouded by a most unfortunate spine injury to Bennett Jared , who died a few months later . " Loss to Virginia . The Tennessee game placed the Commodores at 7 - 0 and unscored upon until the next week . A road game at Charlottesville , Virginia to face the University of Virginia was next on the schedule . The high - flying Commodores were overwhelmed , 10 – 35 by the Cavilers . Curry ran for 80 yards and scored a touchdown on a fumbled punt . Cody booted a 20 - yard field goal for the only other score for the Commodores . Vanderbilt could only manage five first downs in the contest . Rebounding from Loss . Next was the Auburn game , which McGugin had been pointing to since before the season . The game was played in Birmingham on Rickwood Field . Birmingham ' s Rickwood Field ( built in 1910 ) still exists today and has been certified as the oldest ballpark in America . It was home to the Birmingham Red Barons of the old Southern Association for decades until 1987 . Vanderbilt jumped out to a 17 – 0 lead on a rain - soaked field . A Curry pass to captain Russell Cohen opened the scoring . Cody personally took over from that point . In one of the greatest exhibitions of punt covering Cody smothered the receiver every time , recovering two fumbles , one across the goal line for a touchdown . Then , in the last ten seconds of play , Cody dropped kicked a three - pointer from the 33 - yard line . Zerfoss and Friel punted splendidly . Curry ' s generalship was superb , and late in the game the Vandy line rose as one to throw back three Auburn charges on the five - yard line . For the SIAA Championship . The final game of the season for the 8 – 1 Commodores was on Thanksgiving Day in Nashville against rival Sewanee . At stake entering the game was the SIAA championship . A shutout over the " Men From the Mountain " would complete the SIAA schedule of being unscored upon . Thoroughly outplayed the first two quarters as Capt . Dobbins and Hek Clark led the Tiger attack , intermission found the Commodores behind 3 – 0 due to ` Red ' Herring ' s field goal from the 20 - yard line . Dan McGugin took the team over by Engineering Hall for a little talk . They came back playing hard , but the start of the fourth quarter saw the score still 3 – 0 . Then a sustained drive got underway that ended with ` Dough ' Ray plunging touchdown ward from the four - yard line . That pulled the stopper out of the bottle . Lipscomb and Cody blocked a punt and Pud Reyer recovered on the five - yard line . Again Ray went over . Zerfoss skirted end for 26 , Curry followed with a 34 - yard dash and a third touchdown . Little Rabbit was battered and bruised from terrible pounding , but he generated enough steam for the top run of the day , 80 yards for a touchdown with Josh Cody clearing his path . The final count , 28 – 3 , and another SIAA championship . During the season Curry accounted for 118 of Vanderbilt ' s season total of 514 points . Seven out of eight newspapers voted the SIAA championship to the Commodores . The Atlanta Constitution declared it a tie between Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech . Curry ( unanimously ) , Cohen and Cody were named All - Southern .