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1894 Maryland Aggies football team
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1894 Maryland Aggies football Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association MIFA 4–3 2–2 J. G. Bannon 1st Barnes Compton 1896
The 1894 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1894 college football season. Maryland participated as a member of the Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association,December 2016 which was formed as a result of a disagreement the previous season over whether Maryland or St. John's College deserved the state championship.David Ungrady, Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, 2003, pp. 4–6, Sports Publishing LLC. The Aggies finished the season with a 4–3 record.Maryland Game by Game Results https://web.archive.org/web/20100215203714/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/acc/maryland/yearly_results.php?year=1892 2010-02-15 , College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved July 24, 2010.
The following year, the football program was temporarily disbanded until the 1896 season.
Schedule
Eastern October 10 w y Orient Athletic Club College Park, MD 30–0 October 12 w 1894 Western Maryland Green Terror Western Maryland College Park, MD 52–0 October 20 w y 1894 Washington College Shoremen Washington College Chestertown, MD 12–0 October 27 l y 1894 St. John's Johnnies St. John's (MD) Annapolis, MD 6–22 November 7 w y Georgetown College Park, MD 6–4 November 21 l y y Columbia Athletic Club Washington, DC 0–26 November 29 l 1894 Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers Mount St. Mary's Emmitsburg, MD 0–24
Players
The letterwinners on the 1894 team were:All-Time Lettermen https://web.archive.org/web/20181026140910/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/md/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/07guide-11.pdf 2018-10-26 , p. 17–22, 2007 Terrapin Football Record Book, University of Maryland, 2007.
J. G. Bannon, end and player-coach: (May 1, 1874 – January 19, 1937) graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. He was the son of Maryland State Senator Michael Bannon.Michael Bannon, MSA SC 3520-1656 https://web.archive.org/web/20200314164830/https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001600/001656/html/msa01656.html March 14, 2020 , Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011.
Wade Blackistone, end
Clifton E. Fuller, halfback/quarterback: (May 1, 1873 – September 3, 1958)Clifton E. Fuller, Ancestry.com, retrieved October 4, 2011. a native of Cumberland, Maryland, he graduated in 1896.https://archive.today/20120715020641/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1686850942.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+31,+1953&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=4,000+U.+Of+M.+Alumni+Due+At+Home-Coming+Today&pqatl=google 4,000 U. Of M. Alumni Due At Home-Coming Today, The Baltimore Sun, Oct 31, 1953. Fuller worked for many years as a freight agent for the Railway Express Agency in Cumberland and served one term as a city councilman.https://archive.today/20120716230113/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1684901882.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+12,+1946&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Maryland's+Second+City&pqatl=google Maryland's Second City; Mountains Mold Cumberland, The Baltimore Sun, May 12, 1946. He attended every Maryland homecoming game in College Park between 1932 and 1957.Oft-Repeated Story, Cumberland Times November 3, 1957.Football, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1952. He was a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.https://archive.today/20120716203031/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1653774262.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=May+30,+1909&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Knights+Of+The+Golden+Eagle&pqatl=google Knights Of The Golden Eagle, The Baltimore Sun, May 30, 1909.
Samuel "Pop" Harding, tackle/guard: (January 19, 1873 – May 19, 1919) born in Highland, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Harding worked for the Water Department in Washington, D.C., first as a skilled laborer and eventually working his way to the position of foreman.Alumni Record, p. 44.
George Harris, quarterback
Roland L. Harrison, halfback: born May 4, 1875, in Charlotte Hall, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Harrison worked as a topographer for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Harry H. Heward, tackle: born in Crisfield, Maryland, he attended Snow Hill High School and earned a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1897. In September 1899, he began work as a wholesale oyster dealer in Philadelphia. He married Mary C. née Weamer on January 18, 1905.Alumni Record, p. 54.
Grenville Lewis, fullback: (November 12, 1875 – September 1964) born in Washington, D.C., he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1897. He attended Columbian University Law School, where he also coached and played on the football team.Bealle, p. 28. He worked in Honduras as a cattle rancher until 1900, and then as an engineer for several mining companies.Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Volume 41, p. xxxiv, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1911.
Clarence S. Mullikin, end: born on January 7, 1875, in Prince George's County, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. He worked as a teacher in Prince George's County public schools until 1898, when he became a farmer and entered politics. He was appointed to a post in the Census Bureau responsible for the Fifth Congressional District of Maryland. He resigned in 1900 to enter a seminary in Virginia. In 1903, he traveled to Alaska as a missionary, and in 1907, moved to Brookfield, Connecticut. He married Annah H. née Davenport on September 30, 1903, and the couple had three children.Alumni Record, p. 46.
Clarence N. Walker, center: born on May 2, 1876, in Branchville, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1896. He earned an A.B. from the National Law University in 1900, and an LL.M. in 1901. Walker worked as a patent solicitor in Washington, D.C., and in 1902, he married Rose née Evans with whom he had two children.Alumni Record, p. 52.
Thomas R. Wharton, guard: born on June 10, 1876, in Stockton, Maryland, he attended Stockton High School. Wharton left Maryland Agricultural College before graduation to enter business as a merchant. He married Mary H. née Purnell on November 12, 1903, and the couple had one child.Alumni Record, p. 58.
Arthur Wooters, guard
Non-letterwinners:Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 21, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.
William T. L. "Sherman" Rollins, halfback: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1896 and worked as a supervisor of the census and inspector for the Post Office in Seat Pleasant, Maryland.
R. B. "Bob" Beale, tackle: born on February 12, 1878, in Washington, D.C., he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1896. Beale attended Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a certificate of proficiency in electricity in 1899. He worked for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. He married Katharine née Summerhages in February 1905.Alumni Record, p. 50.
John J. Timanus, tackle: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895 and worked as an attorney-at-law in Towson, Maryland.Alumni Record, p. 48.
Barnes Compton, end and captain: son of a wealthy Maryland plantation owner, he graduated in 1895 with a B.S. in the Scientific Course and became a clerk of the B&O Railroad.Barnes Compton, MSA SC 3520-1545, Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011. Compton died sometime before 1914.Alumni Record of the Maryland Agricultural College: 1914, Maryland Agricultural College, p. 42, 1914.
Pete Duffy, halfback
Ernest Millison, halfback
Manager:
George Harris
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