1900 VPI football team

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1900 VPI football
ConferenceIndependent
1900 record3–3–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Brabson Huffard
Home stadiumSheib Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Baylor     3 0 0
Davidson     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 1
Virginia     7 2 1
Georgetown     5 1 3
VMI     4 1 2
Oklahoma     3 1 1
Kendall     2 1 0
Marshall     1 0 2
Navy     6 3 0
Arkansas     2 1 1
South Carolina     4 3 0
West Virginia     4 3 0
VPI     3 3 1
Texas A&M     2 2 1
Richmond     3 4 0
Maryland     3 4 1
Delaware     2 3 1
William & Mary     1 2 0
Furman     0 2 1
North Carolina A&M     0 4 0

The 1900 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1900 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Eugene Davis and finished with a record of three wins, three losses, and one tie (3–3–1).

Hunter Carpenter used the alias "Walter Brown" because his father had forbidden him to play football.[1][2] It was not until his father saw him play in a game in 1900 against Virginia Military Institute in Norfolk, Virginia did he approve.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6St. Albans Lutheran Boys SchoolW 23–0[3][4]
October 20at St. Albans Lutheran Boys SchoolRadford, VAW 16–6[5]
October 25at North Carolina A&MW 18–210,000[6]
October 27at North CarolinaChapel Hill, NCT 0–0[7]
November 14at Virginia
L 5–17[8][9]
November 24vs. ClemsonCharlotte, NCL 5–12
November 25vs. VMIRoanoke, VA (rivalry)L 0–5

Players[]

The following players were members of the 1900 football team according to the roster published in the 1901 and 1903 editions of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[10][11]

VPI 1900 roster
Quarterback

Guards

  • Alvin Lee Abbott
  • Robert William Carper

Tackles

Center

  • Joseph Clyde Steele
Ends
  • Lindsay Louin Jewell
  • William Stuart Moffett

Halfbacks

  • Edward Wood Hardaway
  • John Brabson Huffard (Capt.)

Fullback

Substitutes
  • Robert Bland Beverley
  • John Counselman
  • David Franklin Gill
  • Sally Miles
  • Carter Clarke Osterbind
  • Anderson Howard Sayers
  • Joseph Clay Stiles

References[]

  1. ^ "Hunter Carpenter's Virginia Sports HOF Profile". Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. October 2010. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  2. ^ a b "The first 115 seasons of football at Virginia Tech". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
  3. ^ "St. Albans Beaten". The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. October 7, 1900. p. 18. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  4. ^ "V.P.I., 23; St. Albans, 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 7, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  5. ^ "A Plucky Game". The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. October 21, 1900. p. 18. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  6. ^ "Virginia boys win, Defeat A. and M. eleven by a score of 18 to 2". The Morning Post. October 27, 1900. Retrieved January 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "N.C. University, 0; V.P.I., 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 28, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  8. ^ "'Varsity Downs Polytechnics". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 15, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  9. ^ "The Virginias Defeat Blacksburg Team by 17 to 5". The Virginian-Pilot. Library of Virginia. November 15, 1900. p. 11. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
  10. ^ "The Bugle 1901" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1901. p. 146. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  11. ^ "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
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