(exciting music) The 1899 University of South football team has to be the most amazing story in college football history. The '99 Sewanee team will be unrivaled.

Sewanee had only 325 students in 1899, Drews said, but its football team had big ideas. Lea, a future U.S. senator and newspaper publisher, conceived the barnstorming adventure.

The film follows the 1899 football team at the University of the South, a liberal arts college located on Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga, also known as Sewanee.

Football was a much different game in 1899 than it is now, but that doesn’t make any less remarkable the feat achieved by the Sewanee team that season.

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In 1899, Sewanee fielded one of the best teams in college football history. It finished the season 12-0 and famously won five road games in six days — in an era before players wore helmets ...

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One warm October afternoon 124 years ago, a 13-man college football team visited Atlanta and blitzed Georgia Tech off its home field. The Techs, as folks referred to them back ...

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