1896 Maryland Aggies football team explained

Year:	1896
Team:	Maryland Aggies
Sport:	football
Conference:	Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association
Short Conf:	MIFA
Record:	6–2–2
Conf Record:	1–0–1
Head Coach:	Grenville Lewis
Hc Year:	1st
Captain:	Grenville Lewis
Prev Year:	1894

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]

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=1378 All-Time Coaching Record
2. Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890 - 1952, p. 23, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.