1893 VAMC football team

1893 VAMC football

VAMC's football team in 1893
Conference Independent
1893 record 0–2
Head coach E. A. Smyth (2nd year)
Captain Solomon Vance Lovenstein
B. H. Wills

The 1893 VAMC football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the 1893 college football season. The team was led by their head coach E. A. Smyth and finished with a record of zero wins and two losses (0–2).

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 21, 1893 at Emory and Henry Emory, VA L 0–6  
November 11, 1893 vs. Randolph-Macon Academy Bedford, VA L 6–34  
*Non-conference game.

Players

The following players were members of the 1893 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[2] The roster is also found in the Virginia Tech University Archives.[3]

VAMC 1893 roster
Quarterbacks
  • Samuel Sidney "Sid" Fraser
  • John William Robinson

Guards

  • Nerbon Robert Patrick
  • John Walter Stull

Tackles

  • M. C. Bond
  • Howard Archer Johnson
  • Edward Judson Kerfoot
  • R. E. Wayland
Ends
  • Thomas Edward Dashiell
  • Christopher Gadsden Porcher

Halfbacks

  • Charles Thomas Friend
  • Christopher Gadsden Guignard
  • U. Harvey
  • R. Kyle Slaughter

Fullback

  • Tarpley Douglas Martin
Substitutes
  • Solomon Vance Lovenstein (Capt.)
  • Henry Davis Sayers
  • B. H. Wills (Capt.)

Season summary

Emory and Henry

On October 21, 1893, VAMC played football against Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. VAMC lost 0–6 due to captain H. B. Wills "making a mistake of trying for a sensational field goal when we were gaining ten and twenty yards at every down and were within a few yards of the goal."[2]

Randolph–Macon Academy

The second and final game of the season was against Randolph-Macon Academy in Bedford, Virginia on November 11, 1893. VAMC lost 6–34.[2]

References

  1. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1893–1894". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed October 29, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 129. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  3. "The Beginnings of Intercollegiate Football". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
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