1893 VAMC football team

American college football season

1893 VAMC football

Conference| Independent
Record| 0–2
Head coach|

* E. A. Smyth (2nd season)

Captain| Solomon Vance Lovenstein
B. H. Wills

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Maryland |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 0  | - | 0
Texas |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 0  | - | 0
Central (KY) |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Howard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
North Carolina A&M |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Vanderbilt |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 1  | - | 0
Auburn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 0  | - | 2
Virginia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
Ole Miss |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0
Centre |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0
Trinity (NC) |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 1  | - | 0
VMI |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 1  | - | 0
Kentucky State College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 1
Delaware |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Georgia Tech |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Guilford |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
West Virginia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
William & Mary |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Navy |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 0
Richmond |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0
Georgetown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 0
Sewanee |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Furman |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 0
Georgia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 1
Western Maryland |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 0
Johns Hopkins |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 2
North Carolina |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 4  | - | 0
Tennessee |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 4  | - | 0
Tulane |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Wake Forest |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Hampden–Sydney |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
LSU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Maryville (TN) |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Mercer |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Wofford |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
VAMC |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0
Alabama |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 4  | - | 0

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

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Source

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October 21| 3:00 p.m.| at Emory and Henry| Emory, VA| L 0–6| [1]
November 18| | vs. Randolph-Macon Academy| Bedford, VA| L 6–34| [2][3][4]

## Game summaries

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### Emory and Henry

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VPI at Emory and Henry |  | 1 | 2| Total

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VPI | 0 | 0 | 0
• E&H | 6 | 0 | 6

* Date: October 21, 1893
* Location: Emory, Virginia
* Game start: 3:00 p.m.
* Referee: L. H. Carlock (E&H)

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."[1][5]

The starting lineup for VAMC was: Porcher (left end), Johnson (left tackle), Stull (left guard), Sayers (center), Patrick (right guard), Wayland (right tackle), Dashiell (right end), Fraser (quarterback), Guignard (left halfback), Slaughter (right halfback), Wills (fullback).

The starting lineup for Emory and Henry was: Taylor (left end), Chiddix (left tackle), Wiley (left guard), Buchanan (center), Peery (right guard), Vaught (right tackle), Johnson (right end), Wiley (quarterback), Collins (left halfback), Fraysor (right halfback), McNiel (fullback).

### Randolph–Macon Academy

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The second and final game of the season was against Randolph-Macon Academy in Bedford, Virginia on November 18, 1893.[2][3][4] VAMC lost 6–34.[5][3] However, two newspaper articles from the time list the score as 6–38,[2] and 6–35.[4]

The starting lineup for VAMC was: Porcher (left end), Wayland (left tackle), Stull (left guard), Sayers (center), Patrick (right guard), Kerfoot (right tackle), Dashiell (right end), Robinson (quarterback), Harvey (left halfback), Friend (right halfback), Martin (fullback).

The starting lineup for Randolph–Macon Academy was: Thomas (left end), Griffin (left tackle), Ramsey (left guard), Hurtt (center), Brown (right guard), Jones (right tackle), Allen (right end), Nettles (quarterback), Hunt (left halfback), Ragland (right halfback), Doll (fullback).

## Players

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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.[5] The roster is also found in the Virginia Tech University Archives.[6]

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

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* Thomas Edward Dashiell
* Christopher Gadsden Porcher

Halfbacks

* Charles Thomas Friend
* Christopher Gadsden Guignard
* U. Harvey
* Robert Kyle Slaughter

Fullback

* Tarpley Douglas Martin

|  | Substitutes

* Solomon Vance Lovenstein (Capt.)
* Henry Davis Sayers
* B. H. Wills (Capt.)

## References

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1. ^ a b "Foot-Ball at Emory and Henry". The Times. Library of Virginia. October 24, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
2. ^ a b c "Bedford City Budget". The Roanoke Times. Library of Virginia. November 19, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
3. ^ a b c "Another Victory for Them". The Times. Library of Virginia. November 19, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
4. ^ a b c "Randolph-Macon Wins". The Richmond Dispatch. Library of Virginia. November 19, 1893. p. 5. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
5. ^ a b c "The Bugle 1903" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1903. p. 129. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
6. ^ "The Beginnings of Intercollegiate Football". Virginia Tech. Retrieved October 29, 2015.

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