1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season

1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
League	NCAA
Sport	College football
Duration	September 28, 1918 through December 7, 1918
Number of teams	12
Regular Season
Season champions	Georgia Tech

1918 SIAA 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	1	–	1	–	1	2	–	1	–	1
Centre	0	–	0	–	0	4	–	0	–	0
Furman	1	–	3	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
The Citadel	0	–	1	–	1	0	–	2	–	1
Sewanee	0	–	1	–	0	3	–	2	–	0
Wofford	0	–	1	–	0	0	–	3	–	0
Auburn	0	–	2	–	0	2	–	5	–	0
Ole Miss	0	–	2	–	0	1	–	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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 2	Transylvania	Centre	Danville, KY	W 44–0
November 2	Camp Greenleaf	Sewanee	McGee Field • Sewanee, TN	L 14–0
November 2	Clemson	South Carolina	Columbia, SC	CLEM 39–0
November 2	48th Infantry	Furman	Greenville, SC	W 20–7
November 2	Kentucky	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 33–0
November 3	Auburn	Marion	Marion, AL	W 20–7

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 9	Auburn	Camp Gordon	Columbus, GA	W 14–6
November 9	Great Lakes Military Center	Centre	Danville, KY	W 23–0
November 9	Furman	South Carolina	Florence, SC	SCAR 26–0
November 9	Camp Hancock	Clemson	Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC	L 66–13
November 9	Erskine	Furman	Greenville, SC	T 6–6
November 9	Camp Shelby	Mississippi A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS	W 12–0
November 9	Payne Field	Ole Miss	West Point, MS	L 6–0
November 9	Tennessee (SATC)	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	W 76–0
November 10	North Carolina A&M	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta, GA	W 128–0

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

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 22	Camp Zachary Taylor	Centre	Danville, KY	W 10–0
November 22	Charleston Navy	The Citadel	College Park Stadium • Charleston, SC	L 6–0
November 23	Furman	Clemson	Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC	CLEM 68–7
November 23	Georgia Tech	Pittsburgh	Forbes Field • Pittsburgh, PA	L 32–0
November 23	Wofford	South Carolina	Columbia, SC	SCAR 13–0

Date	Visiting team	Home team	Site	Result
November 28	Georgetown (KY)	Centre	Danville, KY	W 83–0
November 28	Clemson	Davidson	• Charlotte, NC	W 7–0
November 28	Auburn	Georgia Tech	Grant Field • Atlanta, GA	GT 41–0
November 28	Ole Miss	Mississippi A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS	MSA&M 34–0
November 28	The Citadel	South Carolina	County Fairgrounds • Orangeburg, SC	T 0–0
November 28	Sewanee	Vanderbilt	Dudley Field • Nashville, TN	VAN 40–0
November 30	2nd Dev. Regiment	Furman	Greenville, SC	L 13–7

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

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football

Conference presidents	W. L. Dudley (1894–1912) Walter Riggs (1912–1915) ? (1916) Buz M. Walker (1917) ? (1918) Henry D. Phillips (1919–1922) ? (1923–1926) J. W. Provine (1927–1942)

Former teams	Former SIAA teams

Championships & awards	SIAA football champions All-time standings All-Southern team

Seasons	1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

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