1899 VPI football team Contents Schedule Season summary Players References Navigation menu"St. Albans School""Blacksburg 5, Tennessee 0""Varsity Defeats the Polytechnics""W.L.U. 0, V.P.I. 35"Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules"No V.P.I.-St. Albans Game""The Bugle 1903"eexpanding ite

Sheib FieldGibboney FieldMiles FieldMiles StadiumLane StadiumVictory StadiumHokieBirdTech TriumphThe Marching VirginiansBattle at Bristol18921893189418951896189718981899190019011902190319041905190619071908190919101911191219131914191519161917191819191920192119221923192419251926192719281929193019311932193319341935193619371938193919401941194219451946194719481949195019511952195319541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976197719781979198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901991199219931994199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018


1899 college football seasonVirginia Tech Hokies football seasons1899 in sports in VirginiaCollege football season stubs


Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute1899 college football seasonJames MorrisonRadford, Virginia















1899 VPI football
ConferenceIndependent
1899 record4–1
Head coach
James Morrison (1st season)
CaptainW. F. Cox
Home stadiumSheib Field

Seasons


← 1898


1900 →


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).




Contents





  • 1 Schedule


  • 2 Season summary

    • 2.1 Second Game Against St. Albans



  • 3 Players


  • 4 References




Schedule
































DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 7[1]St. Albans Lutheran Boys School
  • Sheib Field

  • Blacksburg, VA


W 21–0
October 21[2]at Tennessee
  • Waite Field

  • Knoxville, TN


W 5–0
November 11at Virginia
  • Madison Hall Field


  • Charlottesville, VA (rivalry)


L 0–28[3]
November 18vs. Roanoke
Roanoke, VA
W 45–0
November 25vs. Washington and Lee
Roanoke, VA
W 35–0
1,000[4]
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1899 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]


Season summary



Second Game Against St. Albans


A second game against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School was scheduled to be played on November 4, 1899 in Radford, Virginia, but it was cancelled due to "an injury to a St. Albans man."[6]



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.[7]









VPI 1899 roster


Quarterback
  • Kit DeCamps

Guards


  • Robert William Carper

  • William Choice

Tackles



  • W. F. Cox (Capt.)

  • Hub McCormick

Center


  • R. W. Montgomery


Ends
  • Lindsay Louin Jewell

  • Harold Benjamin Lewis

Halfbacks


  • William Frazier Bell

  • Edward Wood Hardaway

  • John Brabson Huffard

Fullback


  • Hunter Carpenter


Substitutes
  • John Newton Ashton

  • Wyndham Randolph Bean

  • William Leonard Blair

  • Samuel Guy Bralley

  • McCulloch

  • William Stuart Moffett

  • Joseph Clyde Steele

  • Albert Y. Wootten


References




  1. ^ "St. Albans School". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 7, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Blacksburg 5, Tennessee 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.


  3. ^ "Varsity Defeats the Polytechnics". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 12, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.


  4. ^ "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.


  5. ^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1899–1900". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 6, 2015.


  6. ^ "No V.P.I.-St. Albans Game". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 5, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.


  7. ^ "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved 2015-11-06.







Popular posts from this blog

Moe incest case Sentencing See also References Navigation menu"'Australian Josef Fritzl' fathered four children by daughter""Small town recoils in horror at 'Australian Fritzl' incest case""Victorian rape allegations echo Fritzl case - Just In (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)""Incest father jailed for 22 years""'Australian Fritzl' sentenced to 22 years in prison for abusing daughter for three decades""RSJ v The Queen"

Who is our nearest planetary neighbor, on average?Santa Claus flies to the South PoleSeven Spheres of Unequal Mass, a weighing problem with a twistDescribe a large integerFast Mental Calculation of $7.5^7$Math in Space (without the help of celebrities)Find the value of $bigstar$: Puzzle 8 - InequalityWho drinks beer while running anyway?A Crucial DeliveryRanking And AverageHow long will my money last at roulette?

Is it normal that my co-workers at a fitness company criticize my food choices?How should I greet co-workers?Company mini-conference - How to engage co-workers?Working for or accepting a position to a company that doesn't negotiate salaryMeasuring the adoption of a concept in a companyCan a company fire me for discussing my pay with co-workers?What is considered normal ramp up for a senior developer?What are reasonable concerns to have in a company culture that is not meritocratic?How to deal with a company that ghosted me?How to handle “company strategy trip” that is actually a vacation trip?Is it normal for a company to ask for a photo ID when finishing my new-hire paperwork?