1919 Mercer Baptists football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1919

| team = Mercer Baptists

| sport = football

| image =

| image_size =

| conference = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| short_conf = SIAA

| record = 0–2

| conf_record = 0–1

| head_coach = Maxwell James

| hc_year = 1st

| captain =

| stadium =

| prev_year = 1916

}}

{{1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}

The 1919 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1919 college football season.{{cite web| url = http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/m/mercer/1915-1919_yearly_results.php| title = Welcome cfbdatawarehouse.com - BlueHost.com| access-date = 2016-09-29| archive-date = 2016-10-01| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161001190944/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/m/mercer/1915-1919_yearly_results.php| url-status = dead}} The team played just two games, losing both badly. The team was optimistic before the Florida game.{{cite news|url=https://ursa.mercer.edu/bitstream/handle/10898/2830/OB10171919.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Mercer Team Plays Florida On the Eighteenth|date=October 17, 1919|work=The Orange and Black|number=1|volume=8}}

Schedule

{{CFB schedule

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 18

| w/l = l

| away = y

| opponent = Florida

| site_stadium = Fleming Field

| site_cityst = Gainesville, FL

| score = 0–48

| source = {{cite news|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028291/00257|work=The Florida Alligator|title=Nightshirt Parade Celebrates Mercer's 48 to 0 Defeat|date=October 24, 1919}}

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 25

| w/l = l

| away = y

| nonconf = y

| opponent = Oglethorpe

| site_stadium = Grant Field

| site_cityst = Atlanta, GA

| score = 0–73

| source = {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95946679/mercer-snowed-under-by-charging-petrels/|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution|title=Mercer snowed under by charging Petrels, who spring surprise|date=October 26, 1919|accessdate=February 21, 2022|via=Newspapers.com}}

}}

}}

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