1901 Nashville Garnet and Blue football team

Coached by Charley Moran, though they lost to southern power Vanderbilt, they "mopped up with about everything else.

[2] Nashville tied the Texas Longhorns 5–5, in front of what was then the largest crowd ever to see a game in Dallas.

Kentucky governor J. C. W. Beckham made a 15-yard kick to ceremonially start the contest.

Vanderbilt faced Nashville on Thanksgiving Day and won 10–0 in front of 4 to 5,000 spectators,[7] using "Harvard tactics.

"[8] After thirty minutes of gameplay, John Edgerton scored a touchdown taking the wind out of the sails of Nashville rooters.