1893 Maryland Aggies football team

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1893
Maryland Aggies football
Maryland state championship
District of Columbia championship
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–0
Head coach
CaptainSamuel Harding
Seasons
1893 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Maryland     6 0 0
Texas     4 0 0
Central (KY)     2 0 0
Howard     2 0 0
North Carolina A&M     2 0 0
Vanderbilt     6 1 0
Auburn     3 0 2
Virginia     8 2 0
Ole Miss     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 0
Trinity (NC)     3 1 0
VMI     3 1 0
Kentucky State College     5 2 1
Delaware     2 1 0
Georgia Tech     2 1 0
Guilford     2 1 0
West Virginia     2 1 0
William & Mary     2 1 0
Navy     5 3 0
Richmond     3 2 0
Georgetown     4 4 0
Sewanee     3 3 0
Furman     1 1 0
Georgia     2 2 1
Western Maryland
    1 1 0
Johns Hopkins     2 3 2
North Carolina     3 4 0
Tennessee     2 4 0
Tulane     1 2 0
Wake Forest     1 2 0
Hampden–Sydney     0 1 0
LSU     0 1 0
Maryville (TN)
    0 1 0
Mercer     0 1 0
Wofford     0 1 0
VAMC     0 2 0
Alabama     0 4 0

The 1893 Maryland Aggies football team represented the

Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1893 college football season. After losing all three of its games the previous season without scoring a point, Maryland showed considerable improvement in 1893. The Aggies defeated all six opponents and were named the District of Columbia and Maryland state champions.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 12Eastern High SchoolW 36–0
October 21Central High SchoolW 10–0
October 26Baltimore City CollegeW 18–0
November 1
St. John's (MD)
W 6–0
November 11at Western MarylandWestminster, MDW 18–10
November 17Orient Athletic ClubW 16–6

Players

The

letterwinners on the 1893 team were:[2]

Non-letterwinners:[17]

  • Dick Alvey, tackle
  • W. B. "Will" Crapster, guard: born in 1873 and a native of Taneytown, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Crapster worked as a manager of the Eureka Life Insurance Company in Washington, D.C. He married on April 19, 1913.[18]
  • Henry Harrison, guard
  • Fred Lull, guard
  • Howard Strickler, quarterback
  • John Brock, halfback
  • Barnes Compton, end: son of a
    B&O Railroad.[19] Compton died sometime before 1914.[3]
  • Arthur Pue Gorman Jr., guard
  • Tom Greene, fullback

Manager:

  • Sothoron Key: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1894 and an M.S. in 1902. He worked as a physician in Washington, D.C.[15]

References

  1. ^ David Ungrady, Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, 2003, p. 5, Sports Publishing LLC.
  2. ^ All-Time Lettermen Archived 2018-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, p. 17–22, 2007 Terrapin Football Record Book, University of Maryland, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Alumni Record of the Maryland Agricultural College: 1914, Maryland Agricultural College, p. 42, 1914.
  4. ^ Michael Bannon, MSA SC 3520-1656, Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011.
  5. ^ a b Clifton E. Fuller, Ancestry.com, retrieved October 4, 2011.
  6. ^ 4,000 U. Of M. Alumni Due At Home-Coming Today, The Baltimore Sun, Oct 31, 1953.
  7. ^ Maryland's Second City; Mountains Mold Cumberland, The Baltimore Sun, May 12, 1946.
  8. ^ a b Oft-Repeated Story, Cumberland Times November 3, 1957.
  9. ^ Football, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1952.
  10. ^ Knights Of The Golden Eagle, The Baltimore Sun, May 30, 1909.
  11. ^ Alumni Record, p. 36.
  12. ^ a b Alumni Record, p. 44.
  13. ^ Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 15, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.
  14. ^ The Prough Genealogy Pages, The Prough Family History, retrieved December 16, 2010.
  15. ^ a b c Alumni Record, p. 41.
  16. ^ Alumni Record, p. 52.
  17. ^ Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 18, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.
  18. ^ Alumni Record, p. 42.
  19. ^ Barnes Compton, MSA SC 3520-1545, Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011.