| 1910 Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Yale Bulldogs football game | |
| Football Season: | 1910 |
| Visitor Name Short: | Vanderbilt |
| Visitor Nickname: | Commodores |
| Visitor School: | Vanderbilt University |
| Home Name Short: | Yale |
| Home Nickname: | Bulldogs |
| Visitor Record: | 4–0 |
| Home Record: | 4–1 |
| Visitor Coach: | Dan McGugin |
| Home Coach: | Ted Coy |
| Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 0 |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 0 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 0 |
| Date: | October 22, 1910 |
| Stadium: | Yale Field |
| City: | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Referee: | Dave Fultz |
The 1910 Vanderbilt vs Yale football game, played October 22, 1910, was a college football game between the Vanderbilt Commodores and Yale Bulldogs. Vanderbilt managed to hold defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie on its home field,[1] [2] the south's first great showing against an Eastern power.[3] It was the first home game in which Yale failed to score a point.[4]
"Four times brilliant rushes around end by Capt. Neely brought the ball well into Yale territory, only to be lost because of penalties against the visitors. Vanderbilt did not substitute a single player."[5]
Vanderbilt captain Bill Neely, brother of Jess Neely, recalled the event: "The score tells the story a good deal better than I can. All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today - line, ends, and backfield. We went in to give Yale the best we had and I think we about did it."[6] In Nashville on the night of the game, over a thousand Vanderbilt students (boys) "clad in nightshirts, pajamas and curtailed bonnets," celebrated with a parade march through the streets, and after a trip to the woman's college, with a bonfire at Dudley Field well into the night.[4]
Grantland Rice wrote:[6]