1896 Maryland Aggies football team

1896 Maryland Aggies football
Conference	Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association
Record	6–2–2 (1–0–1 MIFA)
Head coach	Grenville Lewis (1st season)
Captain	Grenville Lewis

1896 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Maryland		–		–				6	–	2	–	2
$ – Conference champion

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]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 10	Eastern High School*	College Park, MD	L 0–6
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 0–6
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*	Maryland Oval Baltimore, MD	T 0–0
*Non-conference game

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

1. All-Time Coaching Record Archived 2011-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved July 25, 2010.
2. Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 23, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.