1898 VPI football team

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1898 VPI football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2
Head coach
Home stadiumSheib Field
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
North Carolina     9 0 0
Central (KY)     3 0 1
Oklahoma     2 0 0
Navy     7 1 0
West Virginia     6 1 0
Marshall     4 1 0
Georgetown     7 3 0
Texas A&M     4 2 0
VMI     4 2 0
Arkansas Industrial     2 1 0
Centre     2 1 2
VPI     3 2 0
Virginia     6 5 0
Richmond     3 3 1
Davidson     1 1 0
William & Mary     1 1 0
South Carolina     1 2 0
Delaware     2 5 2
Columbian     3 6 0
Add-Ran     1 3 1
Maryland     2 6 1
Guilford     0 3 0

The 1898 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1898 college football season. The team was led by their head coach J. Lewis Ingles and finished with a record of three wins and two losses (3–2).

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
November 411:00 a.m.vs. North CarolinaL 6–28[1]
November 5at Guilford*Greensboro, NCW 17–0[2]
November 7vs. University of Maryland, Baltimore*
L 0–23[3][4]
November 11King*W 58–0[5]
November 12Bellevue School*
  • Sheib Field
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 34–0[6]

Game summaries[edit]

North Carolina[edit]

The starting lineup for VPI was: Hubbard (left end), Thomas (left tackle), Carper (left guard), Stull (center), Cox (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Jewell (right end), Bell (quarterback), Rorebeck (left halfback), Ingles (right halfback), Painter (fullback).

Guilford[edit]

The starting lineup for VPI was: Jewell (left end), Thomas (left tackle), Carper (left guard), Stull (center), Cox (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Hubbard (right end), Bell (quarterback), Ingles (left halfback), Hardaway (right halfback), Painter (fullback).

University of Maryland, Baltimore[edit]

The starting lineup for VPI was: Jewell (left end), Cox (left tackle), Carper (left guard), Stull (center), Thomas (right guard), Wood (right tackle), Hubbard (right end), Bell (quarterback), Ingles (left halfback), Hardaway (right halfback), Painter (fullback). The substitutes were: Huffard, McCracken, McGavock and Rorebeck.

Players[edit]

The following players were members of the 1898 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[7]

VPI 1898 roster
Quarterback
  • William Frazier Bell

Guards

Tackles

  • Sidney Johnson Thomas
  • Charles Morton Wood

Center

  • John Walter Stull
Ends
  • Archibald Blair Hubbard
  • Lindsay Louin Jewell

Halfbacks

  • Edward Wood Hardaway
  • John Brabson Huffard
  • J. Lewis Ingles
  • Curtis Grant Rorebeck

Fullback

  • Charles Whitfield Painter
Substitutes
  • McCracken
  • J. McGavock

Coaching and training staff[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Carolina Redeemed!". The Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 8, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  2. ^ "Guilford College Notes". Greensboro Evening Telegram. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 7, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  3. ^ "Maryland Won". The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. November 8, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  4. ^ "Maryland, 23; V.P.I., 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 8, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  5. ^ "V.P.I. 58; King's College, 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 12, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  6. ^ "V.P.I., 34; Bellevue, 0". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 13, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 130. Retrieved November 6, 2015.