| 词条 | 1918 VPI Gobblers football team | ||||||||||||||
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| Mode = football | Year = 1918 | Team = VPI Gobblers | Image = | image_size = | image_caption = | Conference = South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Division = | ShortConference = SAIAA | CoachRank = | APRank = | Record = 7–0 | ConfRecord = 3–0 | HeadCoach = Charles Bernier | HCYear = 2nd | OffCoach = | DefCoach = | OScheme = | DScheme = | Captain = Hank Crisp Harry Douglas Roden William Lee Younger | StadiumArena = Miles Field | Champion = SAIAA champion | BowlTourney = | BowlTourneyResult = }}{{1918 SAIAA football standings}} The 1918 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute,[1] now known as Virginia Tech, in the 1918 college football season. The 1918 team went 7–0 and claims a South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) championship.[2] It is the only team in Virginia Tech history to have finished the season with a perfect record.[3][4] Led by second-year head coach Charles Bernier, the team allowed only two touchdowns during its seven games. Tech's captain was Henry Crisp, a man without a right hand, who was ineligible for military service in World War I, and voted MVP of the South Atlantic region. Before the seasonWorld War IIn the summer of 1918, the United States was not only in the midst of World War I, a world-wide flu pandemic began to impact the colleges of the United States. These two factors had a significant impact on the 1918 college football season. Tech was an all-male military school in 1918, and was therefore unlike other schools which had to join with the military to have football programs, or even remain open. In an early September meeting between college and War Department officials in Plattsburg, Missouri it became clear that the training regimen envisioned for the soldiers could be incompatible with participation in intercollegiate athletics.[5] Coach Charles Bernier was one of those who successfully argued that athletics training was an important part of military training.[6][7][8] Virginia Tech planned to continue its football program in conjunction with the SATC program.[9] Original ScheduleTech originally had a nine-game schedule which was supposed to start the first weekend of October. Due to the flu,[10] only three of the originally scheduled games were played.
Building a New ScheduleTech leaders attempted to schedule games with two groups on the dates that opened: 1) military bases, which were fielding teams of young men who were football players that were away from their home campuses or had recently graduated after playing football; and 2) college teams for that had SATC programs, whose students were encouraged to participate in athletic programs along with the more traditional athletes. This not only enabled colleges to justify the inclusion of football in the SATC regimen, it also helped fill the gaps left by some of their star athletes. For instance, at Virginia Tech, one of the team captains, Monk Younger, was actually in the military in France during the season. He was captain of Hospital No. 41, but the "Techs," (the common nickname for VPI spots teams in newspapers at the time) were still referred to as "Younger's team."[12] Washington and Lee and the University of North Carolina were in the first category. Camp Humphreys and Aero Squadron of Richmond were in the second (although the Aero Squadron of Richmond game was scheduled but never played. Schedule{{CFB schedule| timezone = Eastern |{{CFB schedule entry | date = October 19 | time = | w/l = w | nonconf = y | opponent = Belmont Athletic Club | site_stadium = Miles Field | site_cityst = Blacksburg, VA | score = 30–0 [13]. | attend = }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = October 26 | time = | w/l = w | nonconf = y | opponent = Camp Humphreys | site_stadium = Miles Field | site_cityst = Blacksburg, VA | score = 33–6 }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = November 2 | time = 2:30pm[14] | w/l = w | neutral = y | opponent = Washington and Lee | site_stadium = Fair Grounds[14] | site_cityst = Roanoke, VA | score = 13–0 [15] | attend = }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = November 9 | time = | w/l = w | nonconf = y | opponent = Wake Forest | site_stadium = Miles Field | site_cityst = Blacksburg, VA | score = 27–0 | attend = }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = November 16 | time = | w/l = w | neutral = y | opponent = {{cfb link|year=1918|team=NC State Aggies|title=NC State}} | site_stadium = | site_cityst = Norfolk, VA | score = 25–0 | attend = }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = November 23 | time = | w/l = w | nonconf = y | away = y | opponent = North Carolina (unsanctioned) | site_stadium = Emerson Field | site_cityst = Chapel Hill, NC | score = 18–7 | attend = }} |{{CFB schedule entry | date = November 28 | time = 3:00pm[16] | w/l = w | neutral = y | opponent = {{cfb link|year=1918|team=VMI Keydets|title=VMI}} | site_stadium = Fair Grounds[16] | site_cityst = Roanoke, VA | gamename = rivalry | score = 6–0 | attend = 2,500[17] }} }}
Game SummariesBelmont Athletic ClubTech opened the season at Miles Field with a 30–0 win over Belmont Athletic Club, an organization in Roanoke, Virginia. Tech completed 9 of 16 forward passes for 157 yards.[13] Tech's starting lineup against Belmont: Roden (left end), Hardwick (left tackle), Camper (left guard), Copenhaver (center), Quarles (right guard), Hitchens (right tackle), Huddle (right end), Siegel (quarterback), McCann (left halfback), Bock (right halfback), Conners (fullback).[13] Camp HumphreysCamp Humphreys was one of the teams fielded by military bases that played against college opponents in 1918. Originally the Gobblers were scheduled to face another military team, the Aero Squadron of Richmond, but there was a change during the week before the game.[19][20] Camp Humphreys was a semi-temporary cantonment built on the Belvoir peninsula in Fairfax County, VA in 1918.[21] When the men on the Camp Humphreys team came to Blacksburg, they were coming from a place where over 50 men per week had been dying of the Spanish flu and related pneumonia. The flu was said to have been "conquered" by the week of the game; the number of deaths per week had fallen to 10.[22] Tech won the game 33–6, allowing one of the two touchdowns it allowed all year. (The Associated Press report of the game reported the score to be 23–6, which is apparently a mistake).[23] Washington and Lee{{AFB game box start| Title = VPI vs. Washington & Lee | Visitor = VPI | Host = W&L | V1 = 0| V2 =0| V3 =0| V4 =13 | H1 = 0| H2 =0| H3 =0| H4 =0 | Date = November 2 | Location = Fair Gounds Roanoke, VA | StartTime =2:30 p.m. | ElapsedTime = | Attendance = | Weather = | Referee =Gass }}
Tech played Washington & Lee in Roanoke for the first time since 1915. After fighting to a 0–0 draw after three quarters, Bock and Crisp each scored a touchdown as the Gobblers beat the Generals 13–0. Tech's starting lineup against W&L: Hardwick (left end), Rangsley (left tackle), Tilson (left guard), Resh (center), Quarles (right guard), Pierce (right tackle), Camper (right end), Bonney (quarterback), Crocker (left halfback), McCann (right halfback), Crisp (fullback).[14] Wake ForestIt was Wake Forest' Tech's starting lineup against UNC: Roden (left end), Rangley (left tackle), Tilson (left guard), Resh (center), Quarles (right guard), Pierce (right tackle), Comper (right end), Bonney (quarterback), Crocker (left halfback), McCann (right halfback), Crisp (fullback).[24] NC StateVPI beat NC A&M 25–0. The substitutes got a chance to play.[25] North Carolina{{AFB game box start| Title = VPI at North Carolina | Visitor = VPI | Host = UNC | V1 = 0| V2 =6| V3 =6| V4 =6 | H1 = 0| H2 =7| H3 =0| H4 =0 | Date =November 23 | Location = Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC | StartTime = | ElapsedTime = | Attendance = | Weather = | Referee = }}
VPI beat the North Carolina Tar Heels in an unsanctioned contest 18–7.[26] Tech outweighed UNC by 15 pounds per man. drove to the 10-yard line in the first three minutes, but was unable to score. In the second quarter, Crisp scored a touchdown on a fake end run from the 6-yard line. UNC's Bristol had a 70-yard run soon after, to the 20-year lind. A forward pass from Pharr to Fearrington scored a touchdown.[26] In the third quarter a series passes from UNC to the 15-yard line, when Crocker intercepted a pass a ran 90 yards for the touchdown. Rangley plunged for the final score in the fourth quarter.[26] Tech's starting lineup against UNC: Roden (left end), Rangley (left tackle), Tilson (left guard), Resh (center), Quarles (right guard), Pierce (right tackle), Hardwick (right end), Crisp (quarterback), Robinson (left halfback), Maddox (right halfback), Bonney (fullback).[26] VMI{{AFB game box start| Title = VPI vs. VMI | Visitor = VPI | Host = VMI | V1 = 0| V2 =0| V3 =6| V4 =0 | H1 = 0| H2 =0| H3 =0| H4 =0 | Date =November 28 | Location = Fair Grounds Roanoke, VA | StartTime =3:00 p.m. | ElapsedTime = | Attendance =2,500 | Weather = | Referee =Bob Peck }}
The season closed against VMI on Thanksgiving Day. The Norfolk and Western Railroad ran two special trains for VPI and VMI students to attend the game in Roanoke.[27] Tech defeated VMI 6–0. In the third quarter, Harry Roden blocked a VMI punt at the 10-yard line. Three runs off tackle by Crisp resulted in the game's touchdown.[17] Tech's starting lineup against VMI: Roden (left end), Hardwick (left tackle), Tilson (left guard), Resh (center), Quarles (right guard), Pierce (right tackle), Camper (right end), Crisp (quarterback), Crocker (left halfback), Mattox (right halfback), Bonney (fullback).[17] After the seasonCoach Bernier wrote a story in the 1919 Walter Camp-edited Spalding Foot Ball Guide praising Crisp, one of the team's captains:[28]{{Quote | style=font-size: 100%; |"Uncle Sam could not use a one-hand man, so Henry Crisp, much to Tech's good fortune, played the next biggest game [referring to football compared to war fighting], and to him, more than anyone else, goes the glory for a driving, consistent attack. This big fellow, playing in the back-field for the first time, literally mowed them all down..."[28]}}Crisp was the captain of the All-South Atlantic Eleven team (league MVP), and was joined on that team by James Hardwick (end), Walter Wrangley (tackle), and Charles Quarles (center). [28] PlayersThe following players were members of the 1918 football team according to the roster published in the 1919 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook. [18]
Notes1. ^ In 1918, the official name of the university that is now commonly known as Virginia Tech was "Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute". That name was not used in any newspapers of the period. "Virginia Polytechnic Institute" was used by the school, its students, and newspapers. VPI and Virginia Tech were also commonly used shortened names in newspapers. 2. ^Conference Champions of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association,College Football Data Warehouse 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/virginia-tech/|title=Virginia Tech Hokies School History|last=|first=|date=|website=Sports Reference CB|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 22, 2019}} 4. ^The 1999 team went 11-0 in regular season play before losing the National Championship game played in the 2000 Sugar Bowl. 5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29942079/detroit_free_press_opinion_piece_on/|title=War Department's action makes serious problem for college athletics: Whether usual sports can be continued is question that must be threshed out; Difficult problem faces colleges on account of military training edict|last=Bushnell|first=Edward R.|date=September 8, 1918|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=March 26, 2019}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29896334/opinion_piece_of_football_for_satc/|title=Sports Review|last=Tranter|first=Edward|date=September 13, 1918|work=The Buffalo Enquirer|access-date=March 25, 2019}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29896202/general_story_about_football_in_1918/|title=Football season opens this week: Gridiron game will prosper in all of Uncle Sam's camps|last=|first=|date=September 22, 1918|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 25, 2019}} 8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29703566/|title=Football season in United States to open within very short time:|last=|first=|date=September 26, 1918|work=Winston-Salem Journal|access-date=}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29739318/announcement_that_virginia_tech_would/|title=Tech will play football schedule as planned: Coach Bernier says athletics important part of military training|last=|first=|date=August 18, 1918|work=Times Dispatch - Richmond|access-date=March 20, 2019}} 10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/5150flu.0005.515/1|title=War Conditions Coupled With Epidemic Have Big Effect On 1918 Sports|date=2016-02-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203014916/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/flu/5150flu.0005.515/1|archivedate=February 3, 2016|deadurl=yes|access-date=2016-02-03}} 11. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/officialfootball19181nati|title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1919|last=Camp (ed.)|first=Walter|publisher=|year=1918|}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29738675/monk_younger_in_1918_france/|title=Tech's football star is playing over there: "Monk" Younger captain of Hospital No. 41 team in France|last=|first=|date=October 27, 1918|work=|access-date=March 22, 2019}} 13. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29663503/belmont_athletic_club_1918/|title=Gridiron season opens at Virginia "Tech": "Poly" defeats Athletic Club of Roanoke 30 to 0|last=|first=|date=October 20, 1918|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch|access-date=March 18, 2019}} 14. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |title="Generals" Clash With "Gobblers" at Fair Grounds|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TWN19181102.1.7&e=------191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1918--|publisher=Library of Virginia|newspaper=The World News|date=November 2, 1918|page=7|accessdate=December 13, 2015}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29995459/washington_lee_v_virginia_tech/|title=V .P. I. defeats Generals by count of 13 to 0: Tech fights for every inch of ground in first game with W. & L. since 1915|last=Associated Press|first=|date=November 3, 1918|work=The Times Dispatch - Richmond|access-date=April 1, 2019}} 16. ^1 {{cite news |title=Rain Fails to Dampen The Football Spirit|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TWN19181128.1.1&e=------191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-foot+ball----1918--|publisher=Library of Virginia|newspaper=The World News|date=November 28, 1918|page=1|accessdate=December 13, 2015}} 17. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |title=V.M.I. Goes Down in Defeat Before the V.P.I. 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P. I. trims Camp Humphreys|last=Associated Press|first=|date=October 27, 1918|work=Daily Press - Newport News|access-date=March 31, 2019}} 24. ^{{cite news|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RTD19181110&e=16-11-1918-18-11-1918-191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-football----1918--|date=November 10, 1918|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch|title=Virginia Tech Takes Victory from Wake Forest|page=17}} 25. ^{{cite news|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RTD19181117&e=16-11-1918-18-11-1918-191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-football----1918--|work=Richond Times-Dispatch|title=V. P. I. Gives TarHeels Tremendous Trouncing|date=November 17, 1918|page=17}} 26. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RTD19181124.1.27&srpos=2&e=23-11-1918-25-11-1918-191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-football+carolina----1918--|title=Virginia Tech's String of Victories Unbroken|date=November 24, 1918|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch}} 27. ^{{cite news|url=https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=TWN19181118.1.3&srpos=2&e=16-11-1918-18-11-1918-191-en-20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-football----1918--|work=World News|date=November 18, 1918|title=Two Special Trains}} 28. ^1 2 {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/officialfootball19181nati|title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1919|last=Camp (ed.)|first=Walter|publisher=|year=1919|isbn=|location=|pages=53}} References{{Reflist}}{{Virginia Tech Hokies football navbox}}{{SAIAA football champions}} 5 : 1918 South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season|Virginia Tech Hokies football seasons|South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football champion seasons|College football undefeated seasons|1918 in sports in Virginia |
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