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It's an abscess. They are very common on ruminants like cattle, deer, or antelope, they get them from bacteria making it into the bloodstream and then lodging in an organ like the liver, kidneys, or spleen. I saw literally thousands of them working in a slaughterhouse. The fact that it had no odor means it was not "hot", i.e. the infection had been eliminated but the abscess had not yet been absorbed.
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Yeah, but three/four handfuls of pus in the body cavity of a 1000 pound steer is much different than that same amount in the carcass of an animal 10 times smaller. Being up tight to the tenderloins makes me suspect the infection was liver or kidney orientated. Blood that travels throughout the whole body flows thru those organs, meaning a pretty sick animal.....smell or no smell. Besides, if the guttin' process opens up and spills the cavity contents as the OP stated
"I pulled the entrials out, they did not come out clean" , how's one gonna smell any thing else.
Ain't that much meat on an antelope to start with, I'd still pass.