1907 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played five home games in Nashville, Tennessee and finished the season with a record 5–1–1 and 3–0 in SIAA.

The Commodores also beat Georgia Tech by the largest margin in coach John Heisman's tenure, and beat a powerful Sewanee team on a double pass play which Grantland Rice called the greatest thrill in his years of watching sports.

Rose had played Vanderbilt close in prior seasons, and so was a good warm-up act to Michigan.

The Commodores lost to the Michigan Wolverines 8–0, in front of a crowd of 8,000 at Dudley Field in Nashville, snapping a 26-game home win streak.

[n 1] The game matched Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost against his former player and brother-in-law, Dan McGugin.

Owing to the relationship between Yost and McGugin, the two teams played nine times between 1905 and 1923, with Michigan winning eight games and tying one.

In his usual style he was in every play, tackling runners for loss, falling on the ball in fumbles, and opening wide holes in the line for Michigan gains.

[22] In the sixth week of play, Vanderbilt beat Georgia Tech by the largest margin in coach John Heisman's tenure, 54–0.

[23] Vanderbilt faced one of Sewanee's greatest teams in its annual rivalry game which would decide the SIAA championship.

[25] The double pass was cited by Grantland Rice as the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports.

[29] End Bob Blake made Walter Camp's All-America Honorable Mention, as well as the first team All-American selection of Michigan coach Fielding Yost.

[27] The following chart provides a visual depiction of Vanderbilt's lineup during the 1907 season with games started at the position reflected in parentheses.