69 W&M FOOTBALL TIMELINE 1891 Students begin asking for a football team, editorial appears in a literary magazine in 1948 W&M football team gains second consecu- favor of its adoption. tive bowl bid, defeating Oklahoma A&M, 20-0, in the Delta Bowl in Memphis. Jack 1893 Intramural football grows into a faculty- Cloud leads the Tribe to one of the nation’s approved team and first game is played biggest upsets, a 7-7 tie with North Caro- against Norfolk YMCA in Norfolk. The lina. The Tribe also tops N.C. State and first home game was against Capitol City Virginia Tech and gains sweet revenge over Athletic Club. Arkansas, 9-0. 1894 First intercollegiate game played, a 28-0 1951 Marvin Bass directs the Tribe to a 7-3 mark loss to Hampden-Sydney College. in his only year as a head coach. 1895 No football played because of lack of 1953 With only 24 members on the squad, Head student interest. Coach John T. “Jackie” Freeman (Class of 1944) guides the “Iron Indians” to a 5-4-1 1896 First athletic rules adopted, including col- record. That depleted squad upsets Wake lege regulations for football. Forest in the season opener, ties Navy and defeats N.C. State, VPI, George Washing- 1898 Tribe plays first game vs. Richmond (a 15- ton and Richmond. 0 loss) starting the longest football rivalry The 1946 team, led by captain Denver Mills (left) and in the South. The College also records coach Rube McCray (right), returned more than 50 1964 Marv Levy takes over a program which players from WWII. first intercollegiate win, a 10-0 win vs. hasn’t posted a winning record in 10 Randolph-Macon. years. 1944 Voyles leaves William and Mary for Au- 1918 World War I interrupts athletics program, burn, McCray becomes head coach and 1967 En route to their third consecutive winning and only one game is played. Until this athletics director. season, the Indians score three TDs in the point, only state teams and teams from fourth quarter to stun Navy 27-16. Navy, the immediate area appeared on the sched- 1946 Pre-war stars return from service, and ranked No. 1 in the East, falls to W&M ule. William and Mary finishes second in the for the first time in 25 years. Southern Conference. 1926 The team loses only to northern foes to 1970 With a losing record (5-6), Head Coach post a 7-3 overall record. William and 1947 William and Mary wins second conference Lou Holtz directs the Indians to the Mary wins the Southern title and beats championship. McCray is named Coach Tangerine Bowl after two scrappy, end- Chattanooga in its first bowl bid. of the Year in the league, and fullback of-the-season comebacks. Toledo wins the Jack Cloud is named captain of the All- postseason game, 40-12. 1935 Cary Field Stadium is completed to seat Southern team and appears on several 1976 Head Coach Jim Root guides the Indians to 10,000, with a quarter-mile track and All-America teams. The Indians receive seven wins for the first time since 1951. practice field included. a bid to the Dixie Bowl in Birmingham, January 1, 1948, 1980 Jimmye Laycock returns to his alma mater 1939 Carl Voyles, Wallace Wade’s assistant at but lose to Arkansas, 21-19. to take over the reins of the program. Duke, is appointed head coach and athlet- ics director, and R.N. “Rube” McCray is W&M’s 1967 victory over Navy ranks as one made his assistant. “Fabulous Freshman” of the biggest upsets in college football history. team, which Voyles and McCray brought Most people didn’t give the Tribe a chance. in, gains national recognition. Only Andrew Beyer, in the Washington Post, cautioned that an upset was possible, because of 1940 VMI ties William and Mary, but no state William and Mary’s passing game. Few took such team defeats the Indians. From 1940 warnings seriously. The odds makers made it a through 1948, no state team beats or ties 20-point spread at game time. W&M. How big an upset was it? When the NCAA celebrated the first 100 years of college football, 1942 William and Mary wins the Southern they listed the 10 greatest upsets in history. One Conference championship, losing only to of them was William and Mary 27, Navy 16, Oct. the star-studded North Carolina Pre-Flight 21, 1967. Eleven. The Tribe defeats Oklahoma in postseason play. Guard Garrard “Buster” Ramsey becomes William and Mary’s first AP first team All-America player. Tribe coach Marv Levy (at left with football) celebrates the upset win over Navy. 1943 Varsity football discontinued for second time because of war. 70 W&M FOOTBALL TIMELINE sets a NCAA Division I-AA record for pass kickoff return yardage mark with 743 1986 The Tribe gains a bid to the NCAA playoffs efficiency (204.6) while defensive tackle yards. after posting a 9-2 record. W&M loses to Craig Staub becomes the most decorated Delaware, 51-17. player in Tribe history by being named 2001 W&M posts an 8-4 mark, winning a share to four All-America teams, including the of the Atlantic 10 Conference crown and 1988 Jimmye Laycock becomes winningest GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America making its first NCAA Playoff appearance coach in W&M football history. The squad. since 1996. Senior tailback Komlan Loner- Tribe plays in its sixth postseason game, the gan sets the career kickoff return yardage 1994 Tribe finishes with 8-3 record, capping the record (1,464), junior quarterback Dave best three-year stretch in school history Corley establishes the College’s career mark (26-8). for total offense (8,173) and sophomore receiver Rich Musinski breaks the school’s 1995 Jimmye Laycock becomes only the 13th single season receiving yardage mark by Division I-AA head coach to reach the posting 1,393 yards on 59 catches. Eleven 100-win plateau with a 39-0 win at de- student-athletes earn all-conference honors fending conference champion New Hamp- and Musinski and OT Dwight Beard earn shire. The College finishes the season with All-American honors. a 7-4 mark and places 13 athletes on the all-conference squad. 2002 Tribe senior quarterback Dave Corley, Jr. breaks the school’s all-time passing 1996 The College wins its first Yankee Confer- yardage record in W&M’s 6-5 season, the ence title in the league’s last season of 17th winning ledger in the past 20 years. competition. On its way to the league Corley ends up as the holder of 16 school title the College finishes with a school- records. His main target, wideout Rich record No. 5 final national ranking, ties Musinski, becomes the Tribe’s all-time Jimmye Laycock came to Williams-burg the school record for wins (10) and makes receiving yards leader in the season finale as the Tribe’s head coach 10 years after a quarterfinal showing in the NCAA Div. against Richmond. his graduation. I-AA playoffs. The team also takes home the Lambert Cup and ECAC Team of the 2003 Standout wide receiver Rich Musinski Year trophies. OG Josh Beyer and safety breaks the Atlantic 10 record for career first one ever to be played by an American Darren Sharper earn multiple first team receiving yards with 4,168 yards and is team in Japan against a Japanese all-star All-America honors, while Sharper be- named a first team All-American by the squad. The Epson Ivy Bowl is an awesome comes the third Tribe player to be named as American Football Coaches Association. success with a 73-3 victory. the Yankee Conference’s Defensive Player He also finished his career as the College’s of the Year. As a second-round selection all time leader in receptions (223) and 1989 Tribe gains a bid to the NCAA playoffs of the Green Bay Packers, Sharper also touchdowns (31). He is only the third after posting an 8-2-1 record. W&M loses becomes the highest NFL draft pick in player in NCAA history to collect more to Furman, 24-10. W&M ends the season school history. than 4,000 receiving yards. ranked 10th. 1997 W&M reaches an all-time high national 1990 The Tribe finishes with a school-record 10 ranking of No. 2 in the coaches poll in victories and advances to the quarterfinals the season’s third week and finished with of the NCAA playoffs. William and Mary a 7-4 mark. W&M has 10 players named defeats Richmond in the 100th meeting to All-Atlantic 10 honors, marking the between the two teams. third-straight season with double-digit honorees. 1992 William and Mary finishes with a 9-2 record, becoming only the fifth team in 1998 The Tribe ends the year with a 7-4 record school history to achieve nine victories. and a No. 17 final national ranking. The The Tribe travels to Tokyo and defeats squad produces three players who earned Nihon University, 35-19, in the fifth Ep- All-America honors: QB Mike Cook, DT son Ivy Bowl. The game was the first-ever Raheem Walker and P/TE Mike Leach. match-up between a major U.S. college team and a Japanese university squad. 1999 Coach Laycock and his staff guide the squad to its eighth consecutive winning 1993 Celebrating its 100th year of football, and season with a 6-5 mark.