1896 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1896 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1896 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Grenville Lewis and finished with a 6–2–2 record.[1]
| 1896 Maryland Aggies football | |
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| Conference | Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association |
| 1896 record | 6–2–2 (1–0–1 MIFA) |
| Head coach | |
| Captain | Grenville Lewis |
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| Maryland | – | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| October 10 | Eastern High School* | College Park, MD | L 6–0 |
| October 17 | Gallaudet | College Park, MD | T 0–0 |
| October 17 | Washington Business High School* | College Park, MD | W 34–0 |
| October 29 | Washington Central High School* | College Park, MD | W 10–6 |
| November 4 | Alexandria High School* | College Park, MD | W 18–0 |
| November 7 | Episcopal High School* | College Park, MD | L 6–0 |
| November 10 | at Bethel Military Academy* | Warrenton, VA | W 20–10 |
| November 14 | at Western Maryland | Westminster, MD | W 16–6 |
| November 17 | Central High School* | College Park, MD | W 14–0 |
| November 21 | at University of Maryland, Baltimore* |
| T 0–0 |
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Personnel
The letterwinners of the 1897 team were:[2]
- Charlie Gibbons, end
- John Lillibridge, end
- F. H. Peters, end
- Albert Talty, end
- Fred Bell, tackle
- Bill Gardner, tackle
- Reeder Gough, tackle
- Harry Heward, tackle
- Bert Nelligan, tackle
- Charles Calvert, guard
- Wade Hinebaugh, guard
- Herbert Owen, guard
- Charles Queen, guard
- Charles Ridgely, guard
- Butch Carver, center
- Franklin Sherman, center
- Pete Duffy, quarterback
- Frank Kenly, quarterback
- Hanson Mitchell, quarterback
- Charles Cabrera, halfback
- Bill Gorsuch, halfback
- Bert Nelligan, halfback
- Ben Watkins, halfback
- Grenville Lewis, fullback, captain-coach
Manager:
- Albert Gill
References
- All-Time Coaching Record, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved July 25, 2010.
- Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 23, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.
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