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1948 Vanderbilt Commodores football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
APNo. 12
1948 record8–2–1 (4–2–1 SEC)
Head coachHenry Russell Sanders
Home stadiumDudley Field
Seasons
← 1947
1949 →
1948 SEC football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#8 Georgia 6 0 0     9 2 0
#15 Ole Miss 6 1 0     8 1 0
#13 Tulane 5 1 0     9 1 0
#12 Vanderbilt 4 2 1     8 2 1
Georgia Tech 4 3 0     7 3 0
Alabama 4 4 1     6 4 1
Mississippi State 3 3 0     4 4 1
Tennessee 2 3 1     4 4 2
Kentucky 1 3 1     5 3 2
Florida 1 5 0     5 5 0
LSU 1 5 0     3 7 0
Auburn 0 7 0     1 8 1
† – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1948 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1948 college football season. This was Henry Russell Sanders's last season as the Commodores' head coach. Vanderbilt lost their first game of the season to Georgia Tech, tied their second with Alabama, and then lost the next to Mississippi, who finished the season 8–1. Vanderbilt won the last eight games of the season, which ties as the school’s second longest and remained the longest win streak for the program until a seven game streak to end the 2012 season. The 1948 Vanderbilt team outscored their opponents 328 to 73 and posted four shutouts. The Commodores played only four home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee.

Schedule[]

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result
September 25, 1948 Georgia Tech Dudley FieldNashville, TN L 0–13  
October 2, 1948 at Alabama Ladd StadiumMobile, AL T 14–14  
October 9, 1948 at #13 Mississippi Hemingway StadiumOxford, MS L 7–20  
October 16, 1948 at Kentucky Stoll Field/McLean StadiumLexington, KY W 26–7  
October 23, 1948* at Yale Yale BowlNew Haven, CT W 35–0  
October 29, 1948 at Auburn Montgomery, AL W 47–0  
November 6, 1948 LSU Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 48–7  
November 13, 1948* Marshall Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 56–0  
November 20, 1948* at Maryland Griffith StadiumWashington, DC W 34–0  
November 27, 1948 Tennessee #15 Dudley Field • Nashville, TN W 28–6  
December 3, 1948* at Miami #12 Miami, FL (Burdine Stadium) W 33–6  
*Non-Conference Game. Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

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