1892 VAMC football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1892 VAMC football 1892 VAMC football team.jpg 285 VAMC's inaugural football team in 1892 Independent 1–1 E. A. Smyth 1st William E. Anderson none The 1892 VAMC football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the 1892 college football season. The team was led by their head coach E. A. Smyth. In what was the inaugural season of Virginia Tech football, the team finished with a record of one win and one loss (1–1). On October 21, 1892, the first game ever played in Blacksburg, Virginia was against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School from Radford, Virginia. The game was a 14–10 victory for VAMC and William E. Anderson scored the first touchdown in Virginia Tech football history.http://www.hokiesports.com/football/history.html From The Beginning ... To The Beamer Era hokiesports.com January 26, 2016 Schedule October 21 w St. Albans Lutheran Boys School Blacksburg, VA 14–10 Foot-Ball https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1892-10-13/ed-1/seq-6/ Library of Congress The Richmond Dispatch October 13, 1892 6 February 23, 2022St. Alban's Eleven Defeated https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1892-10-23/ed-1/seq-11/ Library of Congress The Richmond Dispatch October 23, 1892 11 February 23, 2022 October 29 l y St. Albans Lutheran Boys School Radford, VA 0–10 Background The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and the College of New Jersey.Schlabach Mark 2013 https://www.espn.com/college-football/face/team?teamId=164 Rutgers Scarlet Knights–Nov. 6, 1869 ESPN.com June 18, 2013 Although the sport continued to grow, it was not introduced for another 23 years at VAMC. In September 1891, VAMC President John McBryde approved an athletic association for the college. Later that fall, a group of students gathered in a field behind the Number One Barracks (now Lane Hall)https://www.unirel.vt.edu/history/athletics/football.html Football Virginia Tech January 26, 2016 April 3, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150403220844/http://www.unirel.vt.edu/history/athletics/football.html dead to play the first pick-up games of football. In September 1892, with the help of Biology Professor Ellison Adger Smyth (known as the father of modern football at Virginia Tech), Physics Professor William E. Anderson, and cadets H. B. Pratt and John Walter Stull, a call went out for cadet players and two teams were formed, which would become Virginia Tech's first football squad. Smyth served as coach of the team and Anderson was chosen as captain. They had to go to the barracks every day and ask cadets to participate, since most of the players who were assigned to the second team felt that they had been insulted and refused to return to practice on the following day. Practices (and the first home game) were held in a plowed wheat field, located behind Number Four BarracksVirginia Tech Bugle https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/11372/1903_BUGLE.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y The Bugle 1903 1903 123 March 1, 2022 (near present-day Shanks Hall)http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/23/ARTICLE/7367/2006-09-02.html From wheat to Worsham: The history of Lane Pieper Lindsay 2006-09-02 July 28, 2007 Collegiate Times https://web.archive.org/web/20070927104307/http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/23/ARTICLE/7367/2006-09-02.html September 27, 2007 that was "about as level as a side of Brush Mountain"Virginia Tech Bugle https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/11380/1911_BUGLE.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y The Bugle 1911 1911 179 March 1, 2022 and "not as smooth as the bed of the new Blacksburg railroad, but ran up and down hill, with interesting little hollows with hid the play from spectators on the other side of the field." Game summaries First Game with St. Albans In what was the first ever game played by Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, a team from St. Albans Lutheran Boys School in Radford, Virginia lost to VAMC 14–10 in Blacksburg, Virginia on October 21, 1892. William E. Anderson scored the first touchdown in Virginia Tech football history. The starting lineup for VAMC was: Porcher (left end), Minor (left tackle), Preston (left guard), Stull (center), Friend (right guard), Anderson (right tackle), Bowles (right end), Lovenstein (quarterback), Rowe (left halfback), Guignard (right halfback), Martin (fullback). The starting lineup for St. Albans was: S. Spain (left end), Cassell (left tackle), Barnett (left guard), Spain (center), Peters (right guard), Suggs (right tackle), Demmick (right end), Clark (quarterback), Wilkins (left halfback), Shaw (right halfback), Adams (fullback). Second Game with St. Albans VAMC at St. Albans VAMC St. Albans 0 0 10 0 October 29, 1892 Radford, VA E. A. Smyth The second and final game of the season was also against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School and played in Radford. St. Albans led 10–0 at the end of the first half and then the second half was call off with consent of both teams' captains, due to "continued disputes and disagreements." A newspaper article of the time states that the game was "declared off at the end of the first pass."A Corrected Statement https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1892-11-01/ed-1/seq-4/ Library of Congress The Richmond Dispatch November 1, 1892 4 February 23, 2022 Another newspaper article cites the score as 12–0.St. Albans Triumphant https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1892-10-30/ed-1/seq-8/ Library of Congress The Richmond Dispatch October 30, 1892 12 February 23, 2022 Roanoke game VAMC attempted to schedule a game with Roanoke College, but they were unsuccessful. Players The following players were members of the 1892 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook. The roster is also found in the Virginia Tech University Archives.Virginia Tech http://spec.lib.vt.edu/arc/125th/sports/football.htm The Beginnings of Intercollegiate Football 2015-10-26 VAMC 1892 rosterQuarterback Clinton Wakefield Courtland Guards T. P. Bowles Robert Emmett Chumbley John Lynn Preston Tackles William E. Anderson (Capt.) William Howe MinorCenters John Walter Stull Ends Christopher Gadsden Porcher Charles Thomas Friend Halfbacks Christopher Gadsden Guignard E. H. RoweFullbacks Leslie Helm Lancaster Tarpley Douglas Martin Substitutes William Jackson Barnes Robert Wood Cowardin Solomon Vance Lovenstein Robert Kyle Slaughter References VAMC Category:Virginia Tech Hokies football seasons VAMC football