[n 1] The 24–0 win over Davidson saw one writer note "Clemson playing against eleven wooden men, would attract attention;"[10] and Sitton had a 60-yard touchdown run.

Cumberland expected a trick play when Fritz Furtick simply ran up the middle for a touchdown.

[11] One account of the play reads "Heisman saw his chance to exploit a weakness in the Cumberland defense: run the ball where the ubiquitous Red Smith wasn't.

He had his pitching debut with the Jacksonville Jays, leading the team to the South Atlantic League (SALLY) championship.

[3] The club, under manager Bill Bernhard, entered the final day of that season with an opportunity to win the league pennant.

[18] A crowd of 11,000 saw Sitton use his spitball to outpitch Ted Breitenstein for a complete-game, nine-strikeout, three-hit, 1–0 shutout, giving Nashville its third Southern Association pennant by .002 percentage points.

[21] According to one account, "By one run, by one point, Nashville has won the Southern League pennant, nosing New Orleans out literally by an eyelash.

[25] Sitton made his major-league debut on April 24, 1909 against Rube Waddell and the St. Louis Browns, winning the game.

[25] Although Sitton had an early 3–0 record, he was overshadowed by other pitchers on the club such as Cy Young and Addie Joss.

[25] Sitton then returned to the minors, playing with the Montreal Royals, Atlanta Crackers, Troy Trojans, and Binghamton Bingoes.

He surfaced again in the 1920s as an employee of the California-based Hercules Powder Company, a former munitions firm which manufactured fertilizer.

[25] Sitton lived in the Daniel Ashley Hotel in Valdosta, Georgia at the beginning of the Great Depression, and lost his job around 1931.

[29] On the morning of September 11, 1931, at age 49, Sitton borrowed a car from a Valdosta native and drove to the Lowndes County Fairgrounds.