By 1902, Billy Suter was already a well known figure in college football circles, after coaching Sewanee to an undefeated season in 1899. Utilizing strategies that Suter learned while at Princeton, Georgetown won seven of ten games in his only season at the Hilltop .

Suter played football and baseball at Princeton from 1895 to 1899 when he took his first coaching assignment at Sewanee, now known as the University of the South. Taking advantage of a robust physical training program at the college and adding innovations of a Princeton offense that outscored is opponents 266-5 in Suter's senior season, Sewanee was about to make college football history.

In what would become known as the "Iron Men of Sewanee", Suter led the Tigers on a five game, six day train trip in November 1899 to do battle with some of the most prominent football teams in the South, in an era where visiting teams fared poorly with the strain of travel and the bias of local officiating. the tiny school not only defeated, but shut out the likes of Texas (12-0), Texas A&M (10-0), Tulane (23-0), LSU (34-0) and Ole Miss (12-0) en route to an undefeated season. An 11-10 win in the season finale versus Auburn were the only points Sewanee surrendered that season.

Suter coached at Sewanee for the 1900 and (probably) 1901 season, although a source claims he was an assistant coach at Georgetown that same year. Suter took on a publishing job in Washington while serving as as head baseball coach for GU in 1902, where he led the team to a 20-5 record, its best ever. As football coach, the Blue and Gray went 7-3, with wins over Navy, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

Suter spent the next two seasons on a baseball team in South Africa before returning to Washington, this time to start a publishing company. In his biography, Wikipedia noted that over his career he served as the editor and publisher of newspapers such as the Washington Herald, Nashville Tennessean, and the Philadelphia Evening Times.

Year	Record	Pct.	Home	Away
1902	7-3	0.500	5-1	2-1
Totals	7-3	0.500	5-1	2-1