1896 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

The 1896 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1896 college football season was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team's head coach was R. G. Acton, who was in his first year at Vanderbilt and went onto coach two more. This was the first meeting of Vanderbilt and Kentucky.