1898 VPI football team

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1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Sewanee	3	–	0	–	0			4	–	0	–	0
Auburn	2	–	0	–	0			2	–	1	–	0
LSU	1	–	0	–	0			1	–	0	–	0
Georgia	3	–	1	–	0			4	–	2	–	0
Clemson	1	–	1	–	0			3	–	1	–	0
Tulane	1	–	1	–	0			1	–	1	–	0
Vanderbilt	1	–	2	–	0			1	–	5	–	0
Mississippi	0	–	1	–	0			1	–	1	–	0
Texas	0	–	1	–	0			5	–	1	–	0
Nashville	0	–	2	–	0			0	–	2	–	0
Georgia Tech	0	–	3	–	0			0	–	4	–	0
Kentucky State#	0	–	0	–	0			7	–	0	–	0
Cumberland (TN)	0	–	0	–	0			0	–	0	–	0
SW Presbyterian	0	–	0	–	0			0	–	0	–	0
$ – Conference champion # – State champion

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

November 4, 1898vs. North CarolinaWinston-Salem, NCL 6–28 November 5, 1898at Guilford College*Greensboro, NCW 17–0 November 7, 1898vs. UMBC*Lynchburg, VAL 0–23 November 11, 1898King College*

• Sheib Field
• Blacksburg, VA

W 58–0 November 12, 1898Bellevue School*

• Sheib Field
• Blacksburg, VA

W 29–0

• Source: HokieSports.com: 1898 Virginia Tech football schedule

Players

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.

VPI 1898 roster
	Quarterback William Frazier Bell Guards Robert William Carper W. F. Cox 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