Tribe Football History
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BREAK PAGE: TRIBE FOOTBALL HISTORY |----------------Tackles----------------| |-Sacks-| |--------Passes Def-------| |---Fumbles---| Blkd Defensive Leaders GP Solo Ast Total TFL/Yds No-Yds Int-Yds PBU QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf Chris Ndubueze 14 69 48 117 2.0-16 1.0-16 1-10 2 - - - - - James Miller 14 64 50 114 0.5-3 - 3-70 9 - 1-0 - - - Ryan Nickell 14 50 37 87 10.5-37 1.0-8 2-0 2 - - - 1 - Jonathan Shaw 14 45 29 74 3.5-13 1.0-7 2-0 6 - - 1 - - Stephen Cason 14 57 17 74 7.5-41 2.5-21 1-62 7 1 1-5 1 - - Thad Wheeler 14 31 39 70 5.0-12 1.0-1 - 2 - - - - - Josh Wright 14 31 25 56 8.5-36 2.0-17 - - 6 - 1 - - Adam O’Connor 14 26 27 53 15.5-62 8.0-45 - 2 9 1-2 1 - - Richard Riley 13 33 17 50 3.0-5 1.0-1 - 3 - - - 1 - Alan Wheeling 13 36 11 47 - - 1-0 7 - - 1 - - Travis McLaurin 7 20 20 40 3.0-5 - - - - 3-39 - - - Jonas Watson 14 21 17 38 9.5-69 6.5-63 - - 4 1-0 - - - Mike McCarthy 14 20 18 38 5.5-28 2.5-24 - - 1 - 1 1 - Justin Kelly 14 20 14 34 4.0-11 1.0-7 - 1 2 - - - - T.J. O’Neill 13 17 14 31 - - - - 1 - - - - Larry Pendleton 13 11 15 26 1.5-10 1.0-9 - - - - 1 - - Brian Williamson 13 9 16 25 1.0-1 0.5-0 - - 1 - - - - David Page 14 8 10 18 1.0-9 1.0-9 - - 1 - 1 - - William Turner 11 7 4 11 - - - - - - - - - Wade Harrell 12 4 7 11 0.5-0 - 2-56 2 1 - - - - Leonard Muldrow 3 4 6 10 0.5-1 - - - - - - - - Craig Patterson 12 3 4 7 - - - 1 - - - 1 - Tony Viola 13 5 2 7 - - - - - - - - - LeVince Parrott 14 4 3 7 - - - - - - - - - Zachary Stout 11 4 2 6 - - - - - - - - - Dominique Thompson 14 3 3 6 - - - - - - - - - Matt Trinkle 10 2 3 5 - - - - - - - - - Chris Kimber 5 2 2 4 - - - - - - - - - Cedric Slye 4 3 - 3 - - - 1 - - - - - Jerome Griffi n 6 1 2 3 - - - - - - - - - Adam Bratton 13 - 3 3 - - - - - - - - - Brandon Burrow 3 2 - 2 - - - - - - - - - Matt Otey 13 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - Ryan Jones 2 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - Greg Kuehn 14 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Danny Mazur 1 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Cody Morris 14 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Mike Mesi 14 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Corey Patterson 7 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Jordan Troester 4 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - John Pitts 14 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - TM - TEAM 14 - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 TOTALS 14 618 471 1089 83-360 30-228 12-198 46 26 7-46 8 5 1 Opponents 14 615 472 1087 70-216 20-112 5-96 50 23 11-3 12 4 - The Great Hall This room Served as the College’s dining hall and meeting space for more than a century. The General Assembly of Virginia met there several times in the co- lonial period. It contains the portraits of three US Presidents who were educated at W&M (James Monroe, John Tyler, and Thomas Jefferson), and a portrait of Queen Anne of England, hangs over the fi replace. 87 WILLIAM AND MARY FOOTBALL TIME LINE 1891 Students begin asking for a football team, editorial 1944 Voyles leaves William and Mary for Auburn, Mc- appears in a literary magazine in favor of its adoption. Cray becomes head coach and athletics director. 1893 Intramural football grows into a faculty-approved 1946 Pre-war stars return from service, and William and team and fi rst game is played against Norfolk YMCA in Nor- Mary fi nishes second in the Southern Conference. folk. The fi rst victory was recorded against the Old Dominion Club. 1947 William and Mary wins second conference cham- pionship. McCray is named Coach of the Year in the 1894 First intercollegiate game played, a 28-0 loss to league, and fullback Jack Cloud is named captain of the Hampden-Sydney College. All-Southern team and appears on several All-America teams. The Indians receive a bid to the Dixie Bowl in 1895 No football played because of lack of student inter- Birmingham, January 1, 1948, but lose to Arkansas, est. 21-19. 1896 First athletic rules adopted, including college regula- 1948 W&M football team gains second consecutive tions for football. bowl bid, defeating Oklahoma A&M, 20-0, in the Delta Bowl in Memphis. Jack Cloud leads the Tribe to one of 1898 Tribe plays fi rst game vs. Richmond (a 15-0 loss) start- the nation’s biggest upsets, a 7-7 tie with North Carolina. ing the longest football rivalry in the South. The College also The Tribe also tops N.C. State and Virginia Tech and gains records fi rst intercollegiate win, a 10-0 win vs. Randolph- sweet revenge over Arkansas, 9-0. Macon. 1951 Marvin Bass directs the Tribe to a 7-3 mark in his 1904 W&M becomes a member of the Eastern Division of only year as a head coach. the Virginia Collegiate Athletic Association and records its Jack Cloud (above), one of the greatest fi rst victory over Richmond, 15-6, which was the College’s players in Tribe history, earned All-Amer- 1953 With only 24 members on the squad, Head Coach fi rst-ever conference win. ica honors in three consecutive years John T. “Jackie” Freeman (Class of 1944) guides the “Iron (1946-48) and led W&M to the Southern Indians” to a 5-4-1 record. That depleted squad upsets 1906-07 During this academic year, the fi rst Cary Field was Conference Championship in 1947. Wake Forest in the season opener, ties Navy and defeats built thanks to a donation by T. Archibald Cary of Richmond. N.C. State, VPI, George Washington and Richmond. The facility included bleachers and was located just west of the original football fi eld along Richmond Road, where the Bryan Complex now 1964 Marv Levy takes over a program which hasn’t posted a winning record in stands. 10 years. 1911 Dr. William J. Young becomes the fi rst full-time head coach at W&M. 1966 W&M appears on network television for the fi rst time, as ABC-TV broadcasts the Indians’ game against Boston College to a large Notheast and Mid-Atlantic 1918 World War I interrupts athletics program, and only one game is played. Until audience. this point, only state teams and teams from the immediate area appeared on the schedule. 1967 En route to their third consecutive winning season, the Indians score three TDs in the fourth quarter to stun Navy 27-16. Navy, ranked No. 1 in the East, falls 1924 Legendary coach Knute Rockne gives a two-week coaching clinic on campus. to W&M for the fi rst time in 25 years (See below). The following year, Rockne gives only two clinics, one at Notre Dame and one at W&M. 1968 Freshman defensive back Warren Winston of Richmond becomes the fi rst African-American to receive a football scholarship at W&M. 1926 On Oct. 23, the Alumni Association stages the fi rst Homecoming Day in the College’s 233 years of existence. The team loses only to northern foes to post a 7-3 1970 With a losing record (5-6), Head Coach Lou Holtz directs the Indians to the overall record. William and Mary wins the Southern title and beats Chattanooga Tangerine Bowl after two scrappy, end-of-the-season comebacks. Toledo wins the in its fi rst bowl bid. postseason game, 40-12. 1927 The fi rst night football game in the East is played on Sept. 24, as W&M drops 1976 Head Coach Jim Root guides the Indians to seven wins for the fi rst time since a 12-0 decision to Catholic under the lights set up on Cary Field. 1951. 1935 Cary Field Stadium, which would become Zable Stadium, is completed to 1980 Jimmye Laycock returns to his alma mater to take over the reins of the seat 10,000, with a quarter-mile track and practice fi eld included. The fi rst game program. played in the stadium is a scoreless tie against the University of Virginia. 1939 Carl Voyles, Wallace Wade’s assistant at Duke, is appointed head coach and W&M’s 1967 victory over Navy ranks as athletics director, and R.N. “Rube” McCray is made his assistant. “Fabulous Freshman” one of the biggest upsets in college football team, which Voyles and McCray brought in, gains national recognition. history. Most people didn’t give the Tribe a chance. 1940 VMI ties William and Mary, but no state team defeats the Indians. From 1940 Only Andrew Beyer, in the Washington through 1948, no state team beats or ties W&M. Post, cautioned that an upset was possible, because of William and Mary’s passing game. 1942 William and Mary wins the Southern Conference championship, losing only Few took such warnings seriously. The odds to the star-studded North Carolina Pre-Flight Eleven. The Tribe defeats Oklahoma makers made it a 20-point spread at game in postseason play. Guard Garrard “Buster” Ramsey becomes William and Mary’s time. How big an upset was it? When the fi rst AP First Team All-America player. NCAA celebrated the fi rst 100 years of college football, they listed the 10 greatest upsets in 1943 Varsity football discontinued for second time because of war. history. One of them was William and Mary 27, Navy 16, Oct. 21, 1967. 88 WILLIAM AND MARY FOOTBALL TIME LINE 1996 The College wins its fi rst Yankee Conference title in the league’s last season of competition.