1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox sports season
|title=1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
|sport=College football
|league=NCAA
| season = Regular Season
| season_champs = Vanderbilt
Auburn
| no_of_teams = 17
| duration = September 24, 1904
through December 4, 1904
| seasonslistnames = Football
| prevseason_year = 1903
| nextseason_year=1905
}}
{{1904 SIAA football standings}}
The 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1904 college football season. The season began on September 24 with conference member Sewanee hosting the Mooney School.
1904 saw new coaches Mike Donahue at Auburn and Dan McGugin at Vanderbilt,{{Harvnb|Woodruff|1928|pages=159–161}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7037487/the_anniston_star/|title=The History of Southern Football (Chapter Two)|author=Zipp Newman|author-link=Zipp Newman|page=8|access-date=October 15, 2016|via=Newspapers.com|work=The Anniston Star|date=December 5, 1950}} {{Open access}} both of which posted undefeated conference records. McGugin remains the only coach in NCAA history to win his first three games by 60 points. Both McGugin and Donahue were inaugural inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. The SIAA forbade a postseason contest between Auburn and Vanderbilt.{{Harvnb|Woodruff|1928|page=172}}
Also significantly, John Heisman was hired at Georgia Tech.
Season overview
=Results and team statistics=
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|1 (tie) | Vanderbilt | Dan McGugin | 9–0 | 5–0 | 52.7 | 0.4 |
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|1 (tie) | Auburn | Mike Donahue | 5–0 | 5–0 | 19.5 | 1.8 |
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|3 | Sewanee | George S. Whitney | 7–1 | 4–1 | 22.5 | 4.6 |
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|4 | Georgia Tech | John Heisman | 8–1–1 | 3–1–1 | 28.7 | 3.4 |
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|5 | Alabama | W. A. Blount | 7–3 | 5–3 | 10.0 | 6.2 |
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|6 (tie) | Clemson | Shack Shealy | 3–3–1 | 3–2–1 | 7.1 | 6.4 |
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|6 (tie) | Tulane | Thomas A. Barry | 5–2 | 3–2 | 8.3 | 3.4 |
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|8 | Cumberland | A. L. Phillips | 3–1 | 1–1 | 43.7 | 5.7| |
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|9 | Kentucky State | Fred Schacht | 9–1 | 0–0 | 27.7 | 1.5 |
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|10 | Mississippi | M. S. Harvey | 4–3 | 2–3 | 26.4 | 15.1 |
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|11 | LSU | Dan A. Killian | 3–4 | 1–2 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
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|12 | Tennessee | Sax Crawford | 3–5–1 | 1–4–1 | 5.0 | 8.6 |
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|13 | Nashville | H. F. Fisher | 1–7–1 | 0–5–1 | 4.3 | 21.0 |
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|14 (tie) | Mississippi A&M | Daniel S. Martin | 2–5 | 0–4 | 14.4 | 18.0 |
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|14 (tie) | Georgia | Charles A. Barnard | 1–5 | 0–4 | 11.5 | 11.3 |
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Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game{{cite web| url = https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/conferences/independent/1904.html| title = 1904 Independent Year Summary {{!}} College Football |website=www.sports-reference.com}}
=Regular season=
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|Non-conference matchup; SIAA member won |
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|Non-conference matchup; SIAA member lost |
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|Non-conference matchup; tie |
Conference matchup |
SIAA teams in bold.
== Week One ==
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! Date !! Visiting team !! Home team !! Site !! Result !! Attendance !! class="unsortable"|Reference | ||||||
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|September 24 | Mooney | Sewanee | Hardee Field • Sewanee, TN | W 47–0 |
== Week Two ==
==Week Three==
==Week Four==
==Week Five==
==Week Six==
==Week Seven==
==Week Eight==
==Week Nine==
==Week Ten==
==Week Eleven==
All-Southern team
{{main|1904 College Football All-Southern Team}}
The composite All-Southern team compiled by John de Saulles included:{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA161|page=161|journal=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide|title=Football in the South|last1=Association|first1=National Collegiate Athletic|year=1904}}
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