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1891 VMI Keydets football team

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1891 VMI Keydets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1873
1892 →
1891 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Trinity (NC)     3 0 0
Wake Forest     1 0 0
VMI     3 0 1
Vanderbilt     3 1 0
Navy     5 2 0
Virginia     2 1 2
Delaware     5 3 1
Kentucky State College     1 1 0
Georgetown     2 2 0
Sewanee     1 2 0
Central (KY)     0 1 0
Furman     0 1 0
Tennessee     0 1 0
West Virginia     0 1 0
Johns Hopkins     0 2 0
Mercer     0 2 0
North Carolina     0 2 0
Richmond     0 2 0

The 1891 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their first season of organized football. In 1873, however, VMI played Washington and Lee in their only game of the season, losing 4–2. No coaching or player records are known from that game.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResult
October 31Washington and LeeW 6–0
November 11Washington and Lee
  • Unknown
  • Lexington, VA
T 0–0
November 12St. John's (MD)
  • Unknown
  • Lexington, VA
W 18–0
November 20at Pantops AcademyW 28–12

[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Virginia Military Institute Game by Game Results Archived October 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "2010 VMI Football Record Book" (PDF).
  3. ^ Virginia Military Institute (September 13, 1895). "Bomb". Virginia Military Institute – via Internet Archive.