1896 Maryland Aggies football team

1896 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings
	$ – Conference champion;

1896 Maryland Aggies football
1896 Maryland Aggies football
Conference	Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association
1896 record	6–2–2 (1–0–1 MIFA)
Head coach	Grenville Lewis (1st season);
Captain	Grenville Lewis
	Seasons ← 1894 1897 →

The 1896 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Grenville Lewis and finished with a 6–2–2 record.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 10	Eastern High School*	College Park, MD	L 0–6
October 17	Gallaudet	College Park, MD	T 0–0
October 17	*	College Park, MD	W 34–0
October 29	*	College Park, MD	W 10–6
November 4	*	College Park, MD	W 18–0
November 7	Episcopal High School*	College Park, MD	L 0–6
November 10	at Bethel Military Academy*	Warrenton, VA	W 20–10
November 14	at Western Maryland	Westminster, MD	W 16–6
November 17	Central High School*	College Park, MD	W 14–0
November 21	at University of Maryland, Baltimore*	Baltimore, MD	T 0–0
*Non-conference game

Personnel[]

The letterwinners of the 1897 team were:^[2]

Charlie Gibbons, end
John Lillibridge, end
F. H. Peters, end
Albert Talty, end
Fred Bell, tackle
Bill Gardner, tackle
Reeder Gough, tackle
Harry Heward, tackle
Bert Nelligan, tackle
Charles Calvert, guard
Wade Hinebaugh, guard
Herbert Owen, guard
Charles Queen, guard
Charles Ridgely, guard
Butch Carver, center
Franklin Sherman, center
Pete Duffy, quarterback
Frank Kenly, quarterback
Hanson Mitchell, quarterback
Charles Cabrera, halfback
Bill Gorsuch, halfback
Bert Nelligan, halfback
Ben Watkins, halfback
Grenville Lewis, fullback, captain-coach

Manager:

Albert Gill

References[]

^ All-Time Coaching Record Archived 2011-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved July 25, 2010.
^ Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 23, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.

[1] All-Time Coaching Record Archived 2011-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved July 25, 2010.

[2] Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 23, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.

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National championship seasons in bold

1896 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Maryland		–		–		6	–	2	–	2

$ – Conference champion