The 1900 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the

1900 college football season The 1900 college football season ended with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes * The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representative ...

. 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 Caius Hunter Carpenter (June 23, 1883 – February 24, 1953) was an American college football halfback who played for both Virginia Tech and North Carolina. Carpenter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957, the Virginia Spo ...

used the alias "Walter Brown" because his father had forbidden him to play football. It was not until his father saw him play in a game in 1900 against

Virginia Military Institute la, Consilio et Animis (on seal) , mottoeng = "In peace a glorious asset, In war a tower of strength""By courage and wisdom" (on seal) , established = , type = Public senior military college , accreditation = SACS , endowment = $696.8 mill ...

Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ...

did he approve.

Schedule

Original schedule

The 1900 football schedule for VPI listed on October 7 in

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

was as follows: *October 6 – St. Albans in Blacksburg, Virginia (played on this date) *October 13 – Roanoke in

Salem, Virginia Salem is an independent city in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,346. It is the county seat of Roanoke County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combin ...

(game was not played) *October 20 – St. Albans in Radford, Virginia (played on this date) *October 24 –

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...

Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill is a town in Orange, Durham and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census, making Chapel Hill the 17th-largest municipality in the state. Chapel Hill, Durham, and the state ca ...

(game was moved to October 27) *October 26 – North Carolina A&M in

Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats, seat of Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County in the United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, second-most ...

(game was moved to October 25) *November 3 –

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

Richmond, Virginia (Thus do we reach the stars) , image_map = , mapsize = 250 px , map_caption = Location within Virginia , pushpin_map = Virginia#USA , pushpin_label = Richmond , pushpin_m ...

(game was not played) *November 10 –

Guilford Guildford is a town in Surrey, England. It gives its name to the Borough of Guildford, the Diocese of Guildford and the Parliamentary constituency of Guildford. Guildford, Guilford, or Gildford may also refer to: Places Australia * Guildfor ...

in Blacksburg (game was not played) *November 24 – Washington and Lee in Blacksburg (game was not played) *November 29 – VMI in either Roanoke, Virginia (listed on the VPI schedule) or

(listed on the VMI schedule) (played on this date in Roanoke). On October 30, VPI informed VMI that they refused to play in Norfolk. VMI offered to increase VPI's percentage of ticket sales or pay for travel expenses, but VPI declined and the game was called off temporarily. VMI eventually acceded to VPI's demands and moved the game to Roanoke. According to the article, VPI also planned on scheduling games with Maryland and

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

, but neither game occurred. The

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

game was initially scheduled to be played in Blacksburg, but was ultimately played in

Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...

. On October 9, 1900 the

Richmond Dispatch The ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' (''RTD'' or ''TD'' for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. Circulation The ''Times-Dispatch'' has the second-h ...

listed a different schedule. The differences were: *The schedule listed October 13 as "open", instead of against Roanoke. *The schedule correctly listed the North Carolina game on October 27, instead of October 24. *The schedule listed the Virginia game for November 7 (this game was eventually played on November 14). *The schedule listed a Tennessee game for November 14 that was "being arranged" (this game was not played). According to the article, VPI also planned on pursuing games with Randolph–Macon, William & Mary, Georgetown, Hampden–Sydney, and Southern Business College. However, none of these games were scheduled.

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.

References

VPI Virginia Tech Hokies football seasons VPI football {{collegefootball-1900-season-stub