1899 VPI football team

1899 VPI football
Conference Independent
1899 record 4–1
Head coach James Morrison (1st year)
Captain W. F. Cox
Home stadium Sheib Field

The 1899 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1899 college football season. The team was led by their head coach James Morrison and finished with a record of four wins and one loss (4–1).

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
October 13, 1899 St. Albans Boys Lutheran Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA W 21–0  
October 27, 1899 at Tennessee 15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN W 5–0  
November 11, 1899 at Virginia Madison Hall Field • Charlottesville, VA (Rivalry) L 0–28  
November 18, 1899 vs. Roanoke Roanoke, VA W 45–0  
November 25, 1899 vs. Washington and Lee Roanoke, VA W 35–0   1,000[1]
*Non-conference game.

Players

The following players were members of the 1899 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]

VPI 1899 roster
Quarterback

Guards

Tackles

Center

  • R. W. Montgomery
Ends
  • Lindsay Louin Jewell
  • Harold Benjamin Lewis

Halfbacks

  • William Frazier Bell
  • Edward Wood Hardaway
  • John Brabson Huffard

Fullback

Substitutes
  • Ashton
  • Wyndham Randolph Bean
  • William Leonard Blair
  • Bralley
  • McCulloch
  • William Stuart Moffett
  • Joseph Clyde Steele
  • Wootten

References

  1. "W.L.U. 0, V.P.I. 35" (PDF). The Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. December 2, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1899–1900". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 6, 2015.
  3. "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
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