The 1897 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the

1897 college football season The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes Conference establishments * ...

. The team was led by their head coach Charles Firth and finished with a record of five wins and two losses (5–2).

Schedule

Players

The following players were members of the 1897 football team according to the roster published in the 1898 and 1903 editions of ''The Bugle'', the Virginia Tech yearbook.

References

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