Sewanee gave the greatest team in Cumberland history its only loss.. Henry D. Phillips plowed through the line for the deciding score.

[12] The game was originally scheduled to be played in Tuscaloosa, but was subsequently moved to West End Park in Birmingham in an effort to increase gate receipts.

In 1903, Wreidt, the team's coach, resigned and Nashville football was threatened with its end, but it survived for a few more years.

Sewanee was defeated by rival Vanderbilt, 10–5, the first team to even score on the Tigers.

Sewanee was crippled in the first half by the loss of Stewart, who fractured his ankle in a scrimmage before the game.

"As great a stand of a football elevve was that of Sewaee before Vanderbilt's winning touchdown was made.