[5] The backfield included captain and Hall of Fame quarterback Lester Lautenschlaeger and halfback Peggy Flournoy.

[20] The Green Wave used the forward pass to beat coach Homer Hazel's Ole Miss Rebels 26–7.

[23] Former assistant Bernie Bierman's Mississippi Aggies took the lead 3–0 in the opening quarter with a drop kick.

[29][30] On a field thick with muddy, Alabama clay in Montgomery, the Green Wave won over the Auburn Tigers 13–0,[31] scoring all points in the second half.

[38][16] Something of an anticlimax after the LSU game, Tulane beat Centenary 14–0 to cap an undefeated season.

[38] Tulane shared the SoCon title with Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide, which went on to win the Rose Bowl.

Tulane's administration declined a Rose Bowl invitation, in order to keep their student-athletes in class.

[39] One account reads "In the South they call "Peggy" Flournoy of Tulane University, the greatest all-round gridder in that section.

[41] He was selected by Billy Evans and Norman E. Brown as a first-team halfback on their 1925 College Football All-America Teams.

The following chart provides a visual depiction of Tulane's lineup during the 1925 season with games started at the position reflected in parentheses.