re: Annual appeal for a Sewanee icon

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Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South.

The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and lost none, outscored opponents 322–10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title. Several writers and sports personalities consider this Sewanee team one of the greatest football teams ever to play.

With just 13 players, the team known as the "Iron Men" had a six-consecutive-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M, Texas, Tulane, LSU, and Ole Miss.

This trip is recalled memorably with the Biblical allusion "...and on the seventh day they rested."

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