Cumberland Phoenix football

The Cumberland Phoenix football team represents Cumberland University in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Mid-South Conference. The Phoenix formerly competed in the TranSouth Athletic Conference and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

Cumberland Phoenix
First season1894
Athletic directorRon Pavan
Head coachTim Mathis
3rd season, 11–10 (.524)
StadiumNokes-Lasater Field
LocationLebanon, Tennessee
LeagueNAIA
ConferenceMid-South Conference
Past conferencesSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1895–1903)
Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference (1932–1941)
Bowl record0–0 (–)
Conference titles1 SIAA; 1 Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference
ColorsCardinal and White[1]
         
Websitewww.gocumberlandathletics.com

History

Cumberland football began on October 26, 1894[2] with a 6–6 tie with Peabody and finished that first year with a 2–1–1 season record. The early days of Cumberland football were very promising. The pinnacle of the early days of CU football was the 1903 season that began with a (6–0) win over Vanderbilt then a (0–6) loss to Sewanee and continued with a five-day road trip with victories over Alabama (44–0) November 14, 1903, LSU (41–0) November 16, 1903, and Tulane (28–0) November 18, 1903. Cumberland would play a postseason game against Coach John Heisman's Clemson team on Thanksgiving Day that ended in an 11–11 tie and a record of 4–1–1 [3] which gave Coach A. L. Phillips and Cumberland University the Championship of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.[4][5] The 1916 game against Georgia Tech is famous as the most lopsided-scoring game in the history of college football; Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland by a score of 222–0.[6]

For the 2008 season, CU's football earned a share of the Mid-South Conference West Division. In 2016, the team changed its name from Bulldogs to the Phoenix.[7]

Conference championships
Year Conference Coach Overall record Conference record
1903Southern Intercollegiate Athletic AssociationA. L. Phillips6–1–14–1–1
1935[8]Smoky Mountain ConferenceGus Morrow7–35–0

Notable individual achievements

Cumberland Athletics Hall of Fame

All-Southerns

References
  1. Cumberland University Graphic Standards Manual (PDF). Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  2. Winstead Paine Bone. A History of Cumberland University, 1842–1935.
  3. "Cumberland Historical Scores". www.jhowell.net. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
  5. Langum, David J (January 2010). From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847–1997. p. 95. ISBN 9780820336183.
  6. "Makes a Record Score". The Washington Post. October 8, 1916. p. S3.
  7. "Bulldogs out, Phoenix in as Cumberland sports nickname". tennessean.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  8. "Cumberland Completes Most Successful Gridiron Season". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. December 1, 1935. Retrieved March 25, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
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