1896 Virginia Orange and Blue football team

American college football season August 2023 December 2025 1896 Virginia Orange and Blue football Independent 7–2–2 Martin V. Bergen 1st Paul Lee Cocke Madison Hall Field Southern champion The 1896 Virginia Orange and Bluefootball team represented the University of Virginia as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by first-year coach Martin V. Bergen, the team went 7–2–2 and claims a Southern championship.http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliationhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/3012768/the_timespicayune/ The Times-Picayune The Virginians Are Still Champions November 27, 1896 8 August 14, 2015 Newspapers.com W. A. Martin played at end. Schedule October 3 t Hampton Athletic Club Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA 10–10 October 10 w Miller School Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA 26–2 October 14 l y Penn Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA 0–20 October 17 w 1896 St. John's Johnnies St. John's (MD) Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA 48–0 October 21 l y Princeton University Field Princeton, NJ 0–48 > 6,000 Princeton 48, Virginia 0 The Boston Globe October 22, 1896 5 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98348073/princeton-48-virginia-0/ Newspapers.com October 31 4:00 p.m. w VPI Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA rivalry 44–0 600 Foot-Ball in Virginia http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=T18961101&e=------189-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1896--# Library of Virginia The Times November 1, 1896 6 November 21, 2015 November 2 w St. Albans Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA 6–0 November 11 w y VMI Lynchburg, VA 46–0 November 14 t y Hampton Athletic Club 6–6 November 21 w 1896 Gallaudet Bison Gallaudet Madison Hall Field Charlottesville, VA 6–0 November 26 2:30 p.m. w y North Carolina West-End Park Richmond, VA South's Oldest Rivalry 46–0 8,000–9,000 Virginian's Victorious https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85353302/the-roanoke-times/ The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia November 27, 1896 1 September 14, 2021 Newspapers.com Season summary Week 5: at Princeton The Princeton Tigers defeated Virginia, 48 to 0; "the game was too one-sided to be interesting."https://books.google.com/books?id=eTUCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374 Athletics at Princeton: A History 374 Presbrey Frank Moffatt James Hugh 1901 References Virginia Category:Virginia Cavaliers football seasons Virginia Orange and Blue football