1900 VPI football team

1900 Virginia Tech Hokies football

Conference	Independent
1900 record	3–3–1
Head coach	Eugene Davis (1st year)
Captain	John Brabson Huffard
Home stadium	Sheib Field

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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6, 1900	St. Albans Boys Lutheran*	Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA	W 21–0
October 20, 1900	at St. Albans Boys Lutheran	Radford, VA	W 16–6
October 25, 1900	at North Carolina A&M*	Raleigh, NC	W 18–2
October 27, 1900	at North Carolina*	Chapel Hill, NC	T 0–0
November 14, 1900	at Virginia*	Madison Hall Field • Charlottesville, VA (Rivalry)	L 5–17
November 24, 1900	vs. Clemson*	Charlotte, NC	L 5–12
November 25, 1900	vs. VMI*	Roanoke, VA (Rivalry)	L 0–5
*Non-conference game.

Source: HokieSports.com: 1900 Virginia Tech football schedule^[3]

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.^[4]^[5]

VPI 1900 roster

Quarterback

Kit DeCamps

Guards

Alvin Lee Abbott
Robert William Carper

Tackles

William Franklin Cox
Hub McCormick

Center

Joseph Clyde Steele

Ends

Lindsay Louin Jewell
William Stuart Moffett

Halfbacks

Edward Wood Hardaway
John Brabson Huffard (Capt.)

Fullback

Hunter Carpenter

Substitutes

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

References

↑ "Hunter Carpenter's Virginia Sports HOF Profile". Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. October 2010. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
1 2 "The first 115 seasons of football at Virginia Tech". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2009-03-25.
↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1900–1901". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 10, 2015.
↑ "The Bugle 1901" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1901. p. 146. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

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