1899 VPI football team
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1899 VPI football | |
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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 | |||||
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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. |
- Source: HokieSports.com: 1899 Virginia Tech football schedule[2]
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 | ||||||||
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Quarterback
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References
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- ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1899–1900". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 6, 2015.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.