1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season
Date Visiting team Home team Site Result
November 14 Mississippi A & M Alabama The Quad • Tuscaloosa , AL ALA 20-0
November 14 Nashville Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville , TN T 0-0
November 14 Centre Kentucky State Lexington , KY L 44-0
November 14 Texas Tulane New Orleans , LA TEX 12-4
November 16 Sewanee Auburn Riverside Park • Montgomery , AL AUB 38-6
November 16 Texas LSU State Field • Baton Rouge , LA LSU 14-0
November 20 Mississippi A & M LSU State Field • Baton Rouge , LA LSU 52-0
Season overview -- Regular season
The 1896 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season was the college football games played by the members schools of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association as part of the 1896 college football season. The season began on October 3. Coach Pop Warner's conference champion Georgia team beat North Carolina 24-16 in a close game. For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged. Against John Heisman's Auburn team, Georgia also had the first successful onside kick in the South. The LSU Tigers, led by coach Allen Jeardeau, went undefeated and were the SIAA co-champions.