1899 VPI football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–1
Head coach
CaptainW. F. Cox
Home stadiumSheib Field
Seasons
← 1898
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1899 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
VMI   –   – 0 – 0
VPI   –   4 – 1 – 0
Delaware   –   6 – 2 – 0
Arkansas   –   3 – 1 – 1
Georgetown   –   5 – 2 – 1
Texas A&M   –   4 – 2 – 0
Oklahoma   –   2 – 1 – 0
Baylor   –   2 – 1 – 1
Guilford   –   2 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   5 – 3 – 0
Virginia   –   4 – 3 – 2
Add-Ran   –   0 – 0 – 1
Richmond   –   2 – 2 – 0
South Carolina   –   2 – 3 – 0
West Virginia   –   2 – 3 – 0
William & Mary   –   2 – 3 – 0
North Carolina A&M   –   1 – 2 – 2
Davidson   –   1 – 3 – 1
Maryland   –   1 – 4 – 0
Marshall   –   0 – 0 – 1

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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7St. Albans Lutheran Boys School
W 21–0[1]
October 21at Tennessee
W 5–0200[2][3]
November 11at Virginia
L 0–28[4]
November 18vs. Roanoke
W 45–0[5]
November 30vs. Washington and LeeRoanoke, VAW 35–02,500[6][7][8]

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."[9]

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.[10]

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
  • 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.
  2. ^ "Blacksburg 5, Tennessee 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  3. ^ "U of T eleven lost to the Blacksburg team". The Journal and Tribune. October 22, 1899. Retrieved July 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Varsity Defeats the Polytechnics". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 12, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  5. ^ "Football Yesterday". The Roanoke Times. Library of Virginia. November 19, 1899. p. 4. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "The Roanoke Game". Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  8. ^ "Football Yesterday". The Roanoke Times. Library of Virginia. December 1, 1899. p. 4. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  9. ^ "No V.P.I.-St. Albans Game". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 5, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  10. ^ "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved November 6, 2015.


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