1919 Mercer Baptists football team

1919 Mercer Baptists football
Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	0–2 (0–1 SIAA)
Head coach	Maxwell James (1st season)

1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Auburn $	5	–	1	–	0			8	–	1	–	0
Alabama	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	1	–	0
Centre	1	–	0	–	0			9	–	0	–	0
Kentucky	3	–	1	–	1			3	–	4	–	1
Georgia Tech	3	–	1	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Tulane	3	–	1	–	1			6	–	2	–	1
Vanderbilt	3	–	1	–	2			5	–	1	–	2
Furman	2	–	1	–	1			6	–	2	–	1
Mississippi A&M	5	–	2	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Georgia	4	–	2	–	2			4	–	2	–	3
LSU	3	–	2	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Clemson	3	–	2	–	2			6	–	2	–	2
Florida	2	–	2	–	0			5	–	3	–	0
Wofford	1	–	1	–	0			3	–	2	–	1
Transylvania	1	–	1	–	0			2	–	4	–	0
Ole Miss	1	–	4	–	0			4	–	4	–	0
The Citadel	1	–	4	–	0			4	–	4	–	1
Sewanee	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Georgetown (KY)	0	–	0	–	0			0	–	2	–	0
Tennessee	0	–	3	–	2			3	–	3	–	3
South Carolina	0	–	4	–	1			1	–	7	–	1
Mercer	0	–	1	–	0			0	–	2	–	0
Mississippi College	0	–	4	–	0			3	–	5	–	1
Howard (AL)	0	–	4	–	0			3	–	5	–	2
$ – Conference champion

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.^[1] The team played just two games, losing both badly. The team was optimistic before the Florida game.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 18	at Florida	Fleming Field Gainesville, FL	L 0–48	[3]
October 25	at Oglethorpe*	Grant Field Atlanta, GA	L 0–73	[4]
*Non-conference game

References

1. "Welcome cfbdatawarehouse.com - BlueHost.com". Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
2. "Mercer Team Plays Florida On the Eighteenth" (PDF). The Orange and Black. Vol. 8, no. 1. October 17, 1919.
3. "Nightshirt Parade Celebrates Mercer's 48 to 0 Defeat". The Florida Alligator. October 24, 1919.
4. "Mercer snowed under by charging Petrels, who spring surprise". The Atlanta Constitution. October 26, 1919. Retrieved February 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.