1898 VPI football team

1898 VPI football
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1898 record 3–2 (0–1 SIAA)
Head coach J. Lewis Ingles (1st season)
Home stadium Sheib Field
1898 SIAA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Sewanee $ 3 0 0  4 0 0
Auburn 2 0 0  2 1 0
LSU 1 0 0  1 0 0
Georgia 3 1 0  4 2 0
Clemson 1 1 0  3 1 0
Tulane 1 1 0  1 1 0
Kentucky State 0 0 0  7 0 0
Vanderbilt 1 2 0  1 5 0
Texas 0 1 0  5 1 0
Ole Miss 0 1 0  1 1 0
Nashville 0 2 0  0 2 0
Georgia Tech 0 3 0  0 3 0
Cumberland 0 0 0  0 0 0
SW Presbyterian 0 0 0  0 0 0
  • $ Conference champion

The 1898 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1898 college football season. The team was led by their head coach J. Lewis Ingles and finished with a record of three wins and two losses (3–2).

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result
November 4, 1898 11:00am[1] vs. North Carolina Winston-Salem, NC L 6–28  
November 5, 1898 at Guilford College* Greensboro, NC W 17–0  
November 7, 1898 vs. UMBC* Rivermont Grounds[2]Lynchburg, VA L 0–23[3]  
November 11, 1898 King College* Sheib FieldBlacksburg, VA W 58–0[4]  
November 12, 1898 Bellevue School* Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA W 34–0[5]  
*Non-conference game. All times are in Eastern Time.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1898 Virginia Tech football schedule[6]

Players

The following players were members of the 1898 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[7]

VPI 1898 roster
Quarterback
  • William Frazier Bell

Guards

Tackles

  • Sidney Johnson Thomas
  • Charles Morton Wood

Center

  • John Walter Stull
Ends
  • Archibald Blair Hubbard
  • Lindsay Louin Jewell

Halfbacks

  • Edward Wood Hardaway
  • John Brabson Huffard
  • J. Lewis Ingles
  • Curtis Grant Rorebeck

Fullback

  • Charles Whitfield Painter
Substitutes
  • McCracken
  • J. McGavock

References

  1. "Carolina Redeemed!". The Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 8, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  2. "Maryland Won". The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. November 8, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  3. "Maryland, 23; V.P.I., 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 8, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  4. "V.P.I. 58; King's College, 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 12, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  5. "V.P.I., 34; Bellevue, 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 13, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  6. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1898–1899". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 6, 2015.
  7. "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 130. Retrieved 2015-11-06.


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