1897 VPI football team

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1897 VPI football
Conference Independent
1897 record 5–2
Head coach Charles Firth (1st year)
Captain Howard Archer Johnson
Home stadium Sheib Field
Seasons
« 1896 1898 »

The 1897 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1897 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Charles Firth and finished with a record of five wins and two losses (5–2).

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
October 16, 1897 King College Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA W 54–0   -
October 30, 1897 vs. North Carolina Danville, VA W 4–0   500[1]
November 2, 1897 Roanoke Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA W 41–0   -
November 6, 1897 vs. UMBC League Park[2] • Norfolk, VA L 4–18   500[2]
November 13, 1897 at Richmond Broad Street Park[3] • Richmond, VA W 36–0   500[3]
November 15, 1897 9:30am[4] at Hampden–Sydney Venable Field[4] • Hampden Sydney, VA W 10–0   -
November 25, 1897 vs. Tennessee Roanoke, VA L 0–18   -
*Non-conference game.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1897 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]

Players

The following players were members of the 1897 football team according to the roster published in the 1898 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[6][7]

VPI 1897 roster
Quarterback
  • William Frazier Bell

Guards

Tackles

  • Richard Ainsworth Herbert
  • Charles Morton Wood

Center

  • John Walter Stull
 Ends
  • Howard Archer Johnson (Capt.)
  • Harold Benjamin Lewis

Halfbacks

  • Thomas Roy Barnett(e)
  • Charles Weedon Cochran

Fullback

  • Obediah Francis Whitehurst
 Substitutes
  • Charles Whitfield Painter
  • Curtis Grant Rorebeck
  • Bayard Ambrose Rucker
  • Fleming Saunders
  • Robert Mayo Scott
  • Edward Colston Taylor

References

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  5. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1897–1898". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 5, 2015.
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