1899 VPI football team

1899 Virginia Tech Hokies football
Conference	Independent
1899 record	4–1
Head coach	James Morrison (1st year)
Captain	W. F. Cox
Home stadium	Sheib Field

The 1899 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1899 college football season. The team was led by their head coach James Morrison and finished with a record of four wins and one loss (4–1).

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 13, 1899	St. Albans Boys Lutheran	Sheib Field • Blacksburg, VA	W 21–0	–
October 27, 1899	at Tennessee	15th and Cumberland Field • Knoxville, TN	W 5–0	–
November 11, 1899	at Virginia	Madison Hall Field • Charlottesville, VA (Rivalry)	L 0–28	–
November 18, 1899	vs. Roanoke	Roanoke, VA	W 45–0	–
November 25, 1899	vs. Washington and Lee	Roanoke, VA	W 35–0	1,000[1]
*Non-conference game.

• Source: HokieSports.com: 1899 Virginia Tech football schedule^[2]

Players

The following players were members of the 1899 football team according to the roster published in the 1903 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.^[3]

VPI 1899 roster
	Quarterback Kit DeCamps Guards Robert William Carper William Choice Tackles W. F. Cox (Capt.) Hub McCormick Center R. W. Montgomery		Ends Lindsay Louin Jewell Harold Benjamin Lewis Halfbacks William Frazier Bell Edward Wood Hardaway John Brabson Huffard Fullback Hunter Carpenter		Substitutes Ashton Wyndham Randolph Bean William Leonard Blair Bralley McCulloch William Stuart Moffett Joseph Clyde Steele Wootten

References

1. "W.L.U. 0, V.P.I. 35" (PDF). The Ring-tum Phi (Washington and Lee University). December 2, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
2. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1899–1900". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 6, 2015.
3. "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 131. Retrieved 2015-11-06.