1897 VPI football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1897 VPI football VT football team 1897.jpg 285 Independent 5–2 Charles Firth 1st Howard Archer Johnson Sheib Field 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 October 16 w 1897 King Tornado King Sheib Field Blacksburg, VA 54–0 King College Beaten. https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RD18971017.1.16&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Richmond Dispatch October 17, 1897 16 October 16, 2017 October 30 3:30 p.m. w y North Carolina Athletic Park Danville, VA 4–0 500 Carolina Loses to Va. Poly http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073227/1897-11-02/ed-1/seq-1/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Tar Heel November 2, 1897 1 February 21, 2022V.P.I. and N.C. https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RD18971031.1.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Richmond Dispatch October 31, 1897 15 October 16, 2017A Great Victory https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971031.1.5&e=------189-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1897-- Library of Virginia The Times October 31, 1897 5 November 21, 2015 November 2 w 1897 Roanoke Maroons Roanoke Sheib Field Blacksburg, VA 41–0 Roanoke Defeated https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TRT18971103.1.8&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Roanoke Times November 3, 1897 8 October 16, 2017 November 6 l y 1897 University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland, Baltimore League Park Norfolk, VA 4–18 500 Maryland, 18; Blacksburg, 4 https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971107.1.2&e=------189-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1897-- Library of Virginia The Times November 7, 1897 2 November 21, 2015 November 13 3:30 p.m. w y Richmond Broad Street Park Richmond, VA 36–0 300–500 The V.P.I. Wonders http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971107.1.2&srpos=5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-vpi+%22quarter+back%22------# Library of Virginia Richmond Times-Dispatch November 7, 1897 2 October 26, 2015V.P.I.'s Victorious https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RD18971114.1.15&e=------189-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1897-- Library of Virginia Richmond Dispatch November 14, 1897 15 November 21, 2015The Polytechs Win https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971114.1.14&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Times November 14, 1897 14 October 16, 2017 November 15 9:30 a.m. w y 1897 Hampden–Sydney Tigers Hampden–Sydney Venable Field Hampden Sydney, VA 16–0 H.S. and V.P.I. - A Hotly-Contested Game of Foot-Ball https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RD18971116.1.6&e=------189-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1897-- Library of Virginia Richmond Dispatch November 16, 1897 6 November 21, 2015V.P.I., 16; Hampden-Sidney 0 https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971116.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Times November 16, 1897 2 October 16, 2017 November 25 3:30 p.m. l y Tennessee Athletic Park Roanoke, VA 0–18 1,200 Tennessee Shuts Out Blacksburg https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18971126.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Library of Virginia The Times November 26, 1897 1 October 16, 2017 Game summaries King VPI's first game of the season was a victory over King at Sheib Field. North Carolina North Carolina vs. VPI UNC VPI 0 0 4 0 October 30, 1897 Athletic ParkDanville, VA 3:30 p.m. 500 Douglass 1897 North Carolina Tar Heels football team After their victory over King, VPI played the University of North Carolina at Athletic Park in Danville, Virginia. The starting lineup for VPI was: Johnson (left end), Herbert (left tackle), Cox (left guard), Stull (center), Pelter (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Bell (quarterback), Barnett (left halfback), Cochran (right halfback), Whitehurst (fullback). The substitutes were: Painter, Rorebeck and Rucker. The starting lineup for North Carolina was: William White (left end), Frank Bennett (left tackle), Seaton Borland (left guard), H. B. Cunningham (center), Cromartie (right guard), Simmons (right tackle), Warren Kluttz (right end), Frank O. Rogers (quarterback), Cameron Buxton (left halfback), Paul Collins (right halfback), Arthur Belden (fullback). The substitutes were: Edward Abbott, E. V. Howell, Jim MacRae and Willie Turner. Roanoke Maryland, Baltimore The starting lineup for VPI was: Johnson (left end), Herbert (left tackle), Cox (left guard), Stull (center), Pelter (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Bell (quarterback), Barnett (left halfback), Cochran (right halfback), Whitehurst (fullback). The starting lineup for Maryland, Baltimore was: Denson (left end), Billingsbea (left tackle), Cathell (left guard), Messmore (center), Craig (right guard), Lewis (right tackle), Allen (right end), Barrow (quarterback), Roach (left halfback), Frasher (right halfback), Reddington (fullback). The substitutes were: Hicks. Richmond VPI at Richmond Richmond VPI 0 0 30 6 November 13, 1897 Broad Street ParkRichmond, VA 3:30 p.m. 300–500 Bosher 1897 Richmond Spiders football team The starting lineup for VPI was: Johnson (left end), Herbert (left tackle), Cox (left guard), Stull (center), Pelter (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Jones (quarterback), Barnett (left halfback), Cochran (right halfback), Whitehurst (fullback). The substitutes were: Bell, Rucker and Saunders. The starting lineup for Richmond was: Newit Pope (left end), William Powell (left tackle), William Thraves (left guard), Samuel Stone (center), Bonnie Daughtry (right guard), Benjamin Bloxton (right tackle), Charles Scott (right end), John Kaufman (quarterback), John Frazer (left halfback), Burnley Lankford (right halfback), John McNeil (fullback). The substitutes were: A. Winfield Parke. Hampden–Sydney VPI at Hampden–Sydney VPI HS 10 6 0 0 November 15, 1897 Venable FieldHampden Sydney, VA 9:30 a.m. The starting lineup for VPI was: Painter (left end), Herbert (left tackle), Cox (left guard), Stull (center), Pelter (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Bell (quarterback), Barnett (left halfback), Cochran (right halfback), Whitehurst (fullback). The substitutes were: Rucker. The starting lineup for Hampden–Sydney was: Frederick McClure (left end), Murray (left tackle), Samuel Osbourne (left guard), Eskridge (center), Williams (right guard), Charles Hudson (right tackle), Eugene Douglass (right end), David Stuart (quarterback), Thomas Blake (left halfback), Bull (right halfback), John Earhart (fullback). The substitutes were: James Kuykendall. Tennessee Tennessee vs. VPI Tenn VPI 6 12 0 0 November 25, 1897 Athletic ParkRoanoke, VA 3:30 p.m. 1,200 Drizzling rin Donovan 1897 Tennessee Volunteers football team The starting lineup for VPI was: Johnson (left end), Herbert (left tackle), Cox (left guard), Stull (center), Pelter (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Lewis (right end), Bell (quarterback), Barnett (left halfback), Cochran (right halfback), Whitehurst (fullback). The substitutes were: Painter and Rucker. The starting lineup for Tennessee was: Henry Smith (left end), Arthur Watkins (left tackle), Robert Baird (left guard), Charles Rogan (center), John Rice (right guard), James Baird (right tackle), Arthur Tarwater (right end), Sammy Strang (quarterback), Charley Moran (left halfback), Henry Edmonds (right halfback), Jones (fullback). 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.Virginia Tech Bugle http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/bugle/bugl1898/pg139.htm The Bugle 1898 139 1898 2015-11-05Virginia Tech Bugle http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/bugle/bugl1903/1903_BUGLE.pdf The Bugle 1903 1903 129 2015-11-05 VPI 1897 rosterQuarterback William Frazier Bell Guards W. F. Cox Joseph Glenwood Pelter Tackles Richard Ainsworth Herbert Charles Morton Wood Center John Walter StullEnds Howard Archer Johnson (Capt.) Harold Benjamin Lewis Halfbacks Thomas Roy Barnett(e) Charles Weedon Cochran Fullback Obediah Francis WhitehurstSubstitutes Charles Whitfield Painter Curtis Grant Rorebeck Bayard Ambrose Rucker Fleming Saunders Robert Mayo Scott Edward Colston Taylor Coaching and training staff Head coach: Charles Firth Manager: Carl Ernest Hardy Assistant manager: Samuel Henry Sheib Medical adviser: W. F. 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