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45-421: SIAA may refer to: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association , defunct American college athletic conference UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase (hydrolysing) , an enzyme Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title SIAA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

90-670: A Thanksgiving Day football game, Dudley sent out for the Athletic Association to meet. Dudley took the challenge seriously, feeling the university's pride at stake. To some 150 students in the gym, Vanderbilt athletics historian Bill Traughber notes how Dudley explained "if the challenge were met, a new era of athletics would be created with the game of football." Dudley accompanied the team on all of its trips. "Too much cannot be said about William L. Dudley in connection with early football at Vanderbilt", said first team captain and fullback Elliott Jones . Dudley's picture adorned

135-542: A championship game, as Sewanee had a better record against member teams (2–1 as opposed to 2–2). William Dudley , representative of Vanderbilt, fired back a long retort of his own, accusing Wilders of not understanding the rules of the SIAA's constitution. The game to determine champion of the Southern Division was never played. A month later sounded the beginning of the end for the first SIAA, when Vanderbilt withdrew from

180-789: A chemistry professor at Vanderbilt , at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president. Most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball , bicycling , and track and field events. Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The first advance in

225-407: A patent on his method for iridium electroplating in 1887. Dudley was credited with discovering that a toxic component of tobacco smoke is carbon monoxide (which poisons the blood by interfering with oxygen's ability to bind to hemoglobin ). Dudley rejected the popularly held opinion that cigarette smoke was harmful due to the adulteration of the tobacco, e. g. with opium. His experiments showed

270-488: A picture of Dudley's skull (with an exposure time of one hour), he noticed a bald spot 2 inches (5.1 cm) in diameter on the part of his head nearest the X-ray tube. His discovery prompted physicians to experiment with x-radiation as a method for hair removal - a method that became popular in the early 20th century, and was soon adopted by commercial practitioners (i.e. salon owners) as well. In 1909, Dudley hypothesized that

315-475: A series of football games at Brisbane Park in Atlanta, Georgia , in an effort to crown a "Southern champion", calling it the "first championship series of football games ever held in the south". The idea soon grew into a plan to hold a yearly football championship around Thanksgiving determined by games played between the champions of five southern states. The organization overseeing the championship would be called

360-468: A single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools (Clemson and Cumberland) than the conference itself. Several other efforts over the years by individual schools (rather than by the SIAA) to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in various sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by

405-528: A track meet at Vanderbilt with Southwestern Presbyterian University , Sewanee and Tennessee . Opposition from Sewanee prevented the initial meet, but on December 21, 1894, the SIAA was formed. In 1907, Dudley replaced Homer Curtiss of the University of Texas on the Rules Committee. Vanderbilt's football stadiums have been named after Dudley for most of their existence. In 1892, the first Dudley Field

450-777: The American Institute of Mining Engineers , the Engineering Association of the South and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was vice-president of the latter in 1889. Dudley also served as Director of Affairs of the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition in 1897 "and handled it with such care that no deficit appeared at its end". In 1886, the Vanderbilt Athletic Association

495-521: The "father of Vanderbilt football " and the "father of Southern football ," he was the namesake of Dudley Field (the first dedicated Southern college football stadium). Dudley was born on April 16, 1859, in Covington, Kentucky , to George Reed Dudley and Emma Lofland. His father was a steamboat owner and manufacturer. Dudley's family was of English descent, and he was a lineal descendant of colonial Massachusetts governor Thomas Dudley . He

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540-451: The 1894 SIAA are denoted in boldface ; this list is the same as the members from the 1892–1893 SIAA with the replacement of Wake Forest, Tennessee, and St. John's from the 1892 league with Auburn and Georgia. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk. In the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December; therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport

585-562: The Association, preceded by Tennessee. Another month later, the SIAA formally folded. Football analysts of the time wrote that the failure was because the association was composed of colleges scattered too far apart. Though the hopes were high that Virginia, North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins would form a new association in September, this appears to have never come to fruition. The SIAA was founded on December 21, 1894, by Dr. William Dudley ,

630-617: The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition from 1881 to 1885. In 1886, he was elected professor and chair of chemistry at Vanderbilt University , where he introduced courses in organic chemistry to the curriculum. President Grover Cleveland appointed Dudley a member of the Assay Commission of 1887 to examine the weight and fineness of coins. Dudley was appointed Vanderbilt's first dean of the medical department in 1895. In 1880, one John Holland of Cincinnati discovered

675-595: The SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes and abolish paid summer baseball . In protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. On February 25, 1921, Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Tennessee left the SIAA to form the Southern Conference, along with non-SIAA members Maryland , North Carolina, North Carolina State , Virginia , Virginia Tech , and Washington and Lee . In 1922,

720-526: The South". They crafted a constitution, created an executive committee, elected officers, and set rules for: The league did not, however, sponsor much in the way of championship competition for its member schools. It did hold an annual track and field competition for a trophy, and it also held some basketball tournaments over the years, but apparently some member schools did not compete in the tournament during some years, and sometimes non-member southern schools were even allowed to compete in it as well. In 1903,

765-521: The Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA: Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the major colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of many additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with

810-412: The Southern Division, resulting in a 5-team Northern Division and a 4-team Southern Division. The league also took on the usual matters of interest in terms of purifying and organizing athletics at the time, including banning former professional players. The overall goal was generally to "encourage and stimulate athletics among colleges of the South." After just one season of baseball, the Association

855-696: The Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, which was originally planned to be formalized during the first football championship series taking place the week of November 21, 1892. It was envisioned to include two members from each of the five states: Alabama and Auburn from Alabama, Georgia and Georgia Tech from Georgia, North Carolina and Trinity (Duke) from North Carolina, Sewanee and Vanderbilt from Tennessee, and Virginia and Washington and Lee from Virginia. Charles Baskerville (North Carolina), Dr. George Petrie (Virginia), and Frank Spain (Georgia Tech) were

900-583: The University of Cincinnati (Zeta Psi) and went on to serve as the 8th Grand Consul of Sigma Chi Fraternity serving from 1897 to 1899. He became a demonstrator of chemistry at Miami Medical College in 1879. He was appointed professor of analytic chemistry at Miami in 1880, and received an honorary M.D. degree in 1885. From 1880 to 1886, Dudley was a professor of chemistry and toxicology at Miami Medical College in Cincinnati , Ohio , and commissioner of

945-561: The ability to melt and make castings of iridium by fusing the white-hot ore with phosphorus, and patented the process in the United States. He invoked the help of Dudley in getting rid of the phosphorus, who did so by repeated applications of lime at great heat. This was the first reported method of refining iridium. Dudley then found new applications for iridium, and formed the American Iridium Company with Holland. Dudley filed

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990-514: The direction of its formation was in March 1888 when the Vanderbilt Athletic Association endeavored to secure track and field meets at Vanderbilt from Southwestern Presbyterian University , Sewanee , and Tennessee . Sewanee's opposition stopped it from occurring. The original members were Alabama , Auburn , Georgia , Johns Hopkins , North Carolina , Sewanee , Vanderbilt , and Virginia . Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped out, even before

1035-651: The excitation of neon, at the time a recently discovered noble gas , was responsible for the appearance of the aurora borealis. While this was incorrect, his suggestion was widely reported by the media at the time. Dudley was a member of the following: the German Chemical Society of Berlin, the Society of Chemical Industry of England , the Chemical Society of London , the American Chemical Society ,

1080-460: The games 2–1. Eventually, the arbitrators decided in favor of Vanderbilt, leaving a contest between Vanderbilt and Sewanee to determine champion of the Southern Division. Despite this, there was some discontent within the organization; Secretary Wilders, of Sewanee, opined at length about the decision, describing his distaste about the "secret" nature of the arbitrators. He closed his column by noting that Vanderbilt and Sewanee need not face off in

1125-421: The inaugural 1895 season. Central (Eastern Kentucky), Clemson , Cumberland , Kentucky , LSU , Mercer , Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State), Southwestern Presbyterian University , Texas , Tulane , and the University of Nashville joined the following year in 1895 as invited charter members. The conference was originally formed for "the development and purification of college athletics throughout

1170-400: The league. Indeed, some schools centrally-located in the conference played far more conference games than others on the periphery, making it difficult to form a fair comparison to determine just which team was truly the best, especially once the league began to constantly expand its membership. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes,

1215-469: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SIAA&oldid=933127808 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association During the week of Thanksgiving , 1892, southern football promoters organized

1260-460: The meeting were Alabama, Johns Hopkins , North Carolina, Saint John's (of Maryland) , Sewanee, Tennessee , Virginia, and Wake Forest . Presiding over the first meeting was Dr. F. P. Venable , of North Carolina, and secretary was J. B. Robertson , of Virginia; Robertson was later elected as president, with W. S. Symington , of Johns Hopkins, elected as vice president, and W. H. Graham , of Sewanee, elected as secretary and treasurer. The league

1305-612: The onset of American involvement in World War II . League archives were kept at Vanderbilt, the league's founding school, but the building housing the archives was eventually gutted with fire, taking countless irreplaceable items pertaining to the SIAA's history with it. In 1947 there was an attempt, led by Western Kentucky, to revive the SIAA. Western Kentucky hosted an SIAA basketball tournament that turned out to be little more than an invitational tournament because former SIAA members declined to participate. Original charter members from

1350-477: The privilege of naming the next session's president, while the winner of each year's football championship was to name the next vice president. The original division of the teams had Virginia, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Johns Hopkins, and St. John's College in the Northern Division, and Tennessee, Sewanee, and Alabama in the Southern Division. In mid-February, a special session was held to add Vanderbilt to

1395-516: The prominent promoters of the plan. However, the formation of the SIAA did not materialize during the championship series in Atlanta. On December 28, 1892, members of the Virginia's athletic association organized a meeting of southern college athletic programs at Richmond's Exchange Hotel , with the purpose of organizing southern collegiate athletics, especially regular athletic championships in baseball, football, tennis, and track. Colleges present at

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1440-553: The so-called "one-year rule." Generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the large universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference (now the Southern Conference ), which used the one-year rule, while still maintaining membership within the SIAA. At the conference's annual meeting on December 10, 1920,

1485-491: The toxic agent to be carbon monoxide, resulting alike from cigarette, pipe, or cigar. Dudley was one of the first to publish the physiological effects of X-rays along with fellow Vanderbilt professor John Daniel. A child who had been shot in the head was brought to the Vanderbilt laboratory in 1896. Before trying to find the bullet an experiment was attempted, for which Dudley "with his characteristic devotion to science" volunteered. Daniel reported that 21 days after taking

1530-538: The two teams played to a scoreless tie , which features prominently in the school's history. The stadium's dedication posthumously honored Dudley: To William Lofland Dudley, Dean of Southern Athletics, scholar, gentleman, and friend, this ground is dedicated, and, as Dudley Field, is consecrated to the use of Vanderbilt and her sons forever. In the summer of 1914, Dudley was stricken with illness. Shortly after admittance to Clifton Springs Sanitarium in New York, he suffered

1575-646: The wall of Jones' Kansas City office, and when asked who it was he would respond "The best friend of myself and every other student at Vanderbilt." Dudley was a member of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (now the NCAA ) and was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). In March 1888, the Vanderbilt Athletic Association tried to schedule

1620-565: Was also once vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and was notably director of affairs on the Tennessee Centennial Exposition executive committee. Early in Dudley's career, he and John Holland developed a method for refining iridium that paved the way for commercial applications of the metal. Dudley also discovered that carbon monoxide was a major injurious component of tobacco smoke ; and

1665-643: Was dedicated on October 21, with the first instance of the Tennessee–Vanderbilt football rivalry . Vanderbilt Law School currently resides at the site of old Dudley Field. When a new Dudley Field was built in 1922, the old stadium became known as Curry Field, named for Irby "Rabbit" Curry , a Vanderbilt football player who died in an aerial battle over France in World War I . After many years of success under head coach Dan McGugin and an undefeated 1921 season , Vanderbilt had outgrown its old stadium. Since there

1710-585: Was educated in the Covington public schools, graduating from Covington High School in 1876. Dudley devoted himself largely to scientific study. By 1875 he had already published an article in Scientific American . In autumn of 1876, Dudley entered the University of Cincinnati . Dudley received a B. S. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1880. Dudley was a charter member of the Sigma Chi chapter at

1755-405: Was embroiled by controversy. Virginia had a straightforward claim to champion of the Northern Division; though Virginia and Johns Hopkins had been scheduled to meet in a game for champion of the Northern Division, Johns Hopkins forfeited the game after faculty forbade the team from leaving campus on May 3, the day the final division game had been scheduled for. The champion of the Southern Division

1800-529: Was formed by president W. M. Baskerville. Most Vanderbilt students were members. Early sports played at the school were baseball , cycling , and track and field . For twenty five years, Dudley was president of the organization. Dudley added a running track to the Old Gym in 1895. Vanderbilt played its first-ever football game (against the University of Nashville ) in 1890 at Nashville Athletic Park , winning 40–0. After Nashville challenged Vanderbilt to play

1845-417: Was not enough room to expand old Dudley Field at its site near Kirkland Hall, the Vanderbilt administrators purchased land adjacent to the present 25th Avenue South for the new facility. The steel -and-concrete structure cost about $ 200,000 and could seat 22,600. It was the first dedicated college football stadium in the South. In the first game at the new stadium in 1922, against Michigan on October 14,

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1890-566: Was not so easily decided. On May 11, 1893, after a full season of SIAA baseball play, an arbitration committee set out to determine whether Vanderbilt, Alabama, or Sewanee had topped the Southern Division, as the teams had a split record with no clear winner. This was made more difficult due to an eligibility controversy between Vanderbilt and Alabama, with Vanderbilt claiming that two Alabama baseball players were ineligible due to professionalism rules. Owing to this, Vanderbilt claimed Alabama should forfeit two wins to Vanderbilt, despite losing one of

1935-502: Was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year. William Lofland Dudley William Lofland Dudley (April 16, 1859 – September 8, 1914) was an American chemistry professor at both the University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University and an athletics pioneer during the Progressive Era . At Vanderbilt, he was appointed dean of its medical department . He

1980-588: Was one of the first to publish the physiological effects of X-rays with fellow Vanderbilt professor John Daniel. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first Southern athletics conference and forerunner of the Southern and Southeastern Conferences . Dudley was a part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) executive and football rules committees. Known as

2025-423: Was split into two "circuits", with the "Northern" one comprising Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and the "Southern" one comprising Tennessee and Alabama; the champion of each circuit would play each other for the championship of the SIAA each year, with yearly championship matches scheduled for Thanksgiving for football and May 13 for baseball. Interestingly, whichever team won the championship in baseball had

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