(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.

It happened. The tale of the 1899 Sewanee Tigers season is one of the best college football stories I’ve come across. David Neil Drews, a Knoxville writer, authored “Iron Tigers,” a ...

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 ...

In 1899, the Sewanee football team went 12-0 and outscored opponents 322-10. During that legendary season, Sewanee won five road games in six days.

The renaissance of Clark Lea’s Vanderbilt has some groundbreaking similarities to the architecture that built Luke Lea’s tough-as-train rails Sewanee football team of 1899.

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.

In the early days of college football, the plucky Sewanee team cemented its place in football history with an undefeated five-game streak that spanned six days and a 2,500-mile train journey ...

Any discussion over the toughest college football schedule of all-time must begin with the 1899 Sewanee team that won five road games in six days against a series of big-name opponents. The ...

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 ...

Any discussion over the toughest college football schedule of all-time must begin with the 1899 Sewanee team that won five road games in six days against a series of big-name opponents. The ...

Aug. 16—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. Sewanee — formally known as The ...