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1908 VPI football
Conference	Independent
1908 record	5–4
Head coach	R. M. Brown (1st season)
Captain	Joseph Talmage Luttrell
Home stadium	Gibboney Field
Seasons ← 1907 1909 →

The 1908 VPI football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1908 college football season. The team was led by their head coach R. M. Brown and finished with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4).

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 3		Hampden–Sydney	Gibboney Field Blacksburg, VA	W 50–0
October 10		at Clemson	Bowman Field Calhoun, SC	W 6–0
October 17		at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 4–10
October 24		vs. VMI	Roanoke, VA (rivalry)	W 10–0
October 31		vs. Washington and Lee	Lynchburg, VA	W 15–4	5,000^[1]
November 7^[2]	3:30 p.m.^[3]	vs. North Carolina	Broad Street Park^[4] Richmond, VA	W 10–0	2,000^[5]
November 14		George Washington	Gibboney Field Blacksburg, VA	L 0–6
November 21		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 4–15
November 26		vs. North Carolina A&M	Lafayette Field^[6] Norfolk, VA	L 5–6	5,000^[6]
All times are in Eastern time

Source: HokieSports.com: 1908 Virginia Tech football schedule^[7]

Players[]

The following players were members of the 1908 football team according to the roster published in the 1909 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.^[8]

VPI 1908 roster

Quarterback

Frederick William Connolly

Hoss Hodgson
Walker

Harry Guilford Jones
John Porter Jones

Aubrey Gravatt Gibbs

Ends

Thomas Paret Hicks
Paul Phillippi Huffard

Henry Evans Billups
Joseph Talmage Luttrell (Capt.)

Vivian Burnett Hodgson

References[]

↑ "Techs Play Rings Round W. & L.". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Library of Virginia): p. E1. November 1, 1908. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19081101&e=------190-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-V.P.I.+washington+lee----1908--#. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
↑ "Tech Outpoint Carolina Rivals". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Library of Virginia): p. E1. November 8, 1908. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19081108&e=------190-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-V.P.I.+washington+lee----1908--#. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
↑ "Techs and Tarheels Ready For the Fray". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Library of Virginia): p. 5. November 7, 1908. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19081107&e=------190-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-V.P.I.+washington+lee----1908--#. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
↑ "Foot-Ball V.P.I. vs. Carolina". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Library of Virginia): p. E2. November 1, 1908. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19081101&e=------190-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-V.P.I.+washington+lee----1908--#. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
↑ "V.P.I. Defeats Carolina". The Tar Heel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): p. 1. November 12, 1908. http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073227/1908-11-12/ed-1/seq-1/. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 "Their Relations Are Broken Off". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Library of Virginia): p. 9. November 27, 1908. http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19081127&e=------190-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-V.P.I.+carolina----1908--#. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1908–1909". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed November 18, 2015.
↑ "The Bugle 1909". Virginia Tech Bugle. 1909. p. 152. http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/bugle/bugl1909/1909_BUGLE.pdf. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

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