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The 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1906 college football season. The team's head coach was Dan McGugin, who served his third season in that capacity. Members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Commodores played seven home games in Nashville, Tennessee, and finished the season with a record of 8–1 overall and 5–0 in SIAA. The 1906 Vanderbilt team had one of the best seasons in school history. Vanderbilt played seven home games, winning all of them. Their only loss came on the road at Michigan, 10–4. Seven of Vanderbilt's eight wins came by shutout. Only two teams scored on them all season. Vanderbilt outscored their opponents 278–16. Vanderbilt finished the season with a 22-game home win streak that reached 26 until Michigan stopped them on November 2, 1907. Vanderbilt this year gave Texas, Sewanee, and Alabama their only loss, were tied with Michigan until the closing minutes, and defeated a Northern school in Carlisle by a single Bob Blake field goal, "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season." For some, Vanderbilt's eleven was the entire All-Southern team.〔 〕 In 1911, Innis Brown, captain of the 1905 team, rated the 1906 team as the best the South ever had.〔 〕 ==New rules to save football== At the end of 1905 football looked to be abolished due to all the reoccurring violence. Football was a sport that had degenerated into dangerous formations, and tactics such as the flying wedge punching, kicking, pilling-on, elbows to the face, and most any violent behavior was allowed. Theodore Roosevelt although his nearsightedness kept him off the Harvard varsity squad, Roosevelt was a vocal exponent of football’s contribution to the “strenuous life,” both on and off the field. he helped revive the annual Harvard-Yale football series after it had been canceled for two years following the violent 1894 clash that was deemed “the bloodbath at Hampden Park.” His belief that the football field was a proving ground for the battlefield was validated by the performance of his fellow Rough Riders who were former football standouts. “In life, as in a football game,” he wrote, “the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!” In 1903, the president told an audience, “I believe in rough games and in rough, manly sports. I do not feel any particular sympathy for the person who gets battered about a good deal so long as it is not fatal.” Using his “big stick,” the First Fan summoned the head coaches and representatives of the premier collegiate powers—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House on October 9, 1905. Roosevelt urged them to curb excessive violence and make an example of fair play for the rest of the country. The schools released a statement condemning brutality and pledging to keep the game clean.〔https://symonsez.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/when-a-president-threatened-to-abolish-football-in-the-united-states/〕 Fatalities and injuries mounted during the 1905 season. Union College halfback Harold Moore died of a cerebral hemorrhage after being kicked in the head while attempting to tackle a New York University runner. The Chicago Tribune referred to 1905 football season as a “death harvest,” the 1905 football season resulted in 19 player deaths and 137 serious injuries.〔http://muckrakerfarm.com/1905/11/football-years-death-harvest-record-shows-that-nineteen-football-players-have-been-killed-in-1905/〕 A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune cartoon depicted the Grim Reaper on a goalpost surveying a twisted mass of fallen players.〔http://deadspin.com/did-football-cause-20-deaths-in-1905-re-investigating-1506758181〕 Following the season, Stanford and California switched to rugby while Columbia, Northwestern and Duke dropped football. Harvard president Charles Eliot, who considered football “more brutalizing than prizefighting, cockfighting or bullfighting,” warned that Harvard could be next, a move that could have been a crushing blow to the college game. Roosevelt wrote in a letter to a friend that he would not let Eliot “emasculate football,” and that he hoped to “minimize the danger” without football having to be played “on too ladylike a basis.” Roosevelt again used his bully pulpit. He urged for radical rule changes, and he invited other school leaders to the White House in the off-season. An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical rule changes for the 1906 season. They legalized the forward pass, abolished the dangerous flying wedge, created a neutral zone between offense and defense and doubled the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs. It was John Heisman who convinced the Football Rules Committee to legalize the forward pass. After unsuccessfully attempting for three years to convince Rules Chairman Walter Camp to legalize the forward pass, Heisman enlisted the valuable support of committee members John Bell and Paul Dashiell instead. Finally, in 1906, the Rules Committee, college football’s governing body (Today the NCAA), legalized the forward pass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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