The 1893 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1893 college football season. After losing all three of its games the previous season without scoring a point, Maryland showed considerable improvement in 1893. The Aggies defeated all six opponents and were named the District of Columbia and Maryland state champions.David Ungrady, Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, 2003, p. 5, Sports Publishing LLC.
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Players The letterwinners on the 1893 team were:All-Time Lettermen , p. 17–22, 2007 Terrapin Football Record Book, University of Maryland, 2007. J. G. Bannon, end: (May 1, 1874 – January 19, 1937) graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. He was the son of Maryland State Senator Michael Bannon.Michael Bannon, MSA SC 3520-1656 , Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011. Clifton E. Fuller, halfback/quarterback: (May 1, 1873 – September 3, 1958)Clifton E. Fuller, Ancestry.com, retrieved October 4, 2011. a native of Cumberland, Maryland, he graduated in 1896., The Baltimore Sun, Oct 31, 1953. Fuller worked for many years as a freight agent for the Railway Express Agency in Cumberland and served one term as a city councilman., The Baltimore Sun, May 12, 1946. He attended every Maryland homecoming game in College Park between 1932 and 1957.Oft-Repeated Story, Cumberland Times November 3, 1957.Football, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 19, 1952. He was a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle., The Baltimore Sun, May 30, 1909. Gustavus Y. Graff, tackle: born January 30, 1865, a native of Montgomery County, Maryland, he graduated in 1893 with a B.S. in the Scientific Course and worked as a librarian at the college for one year. Graff then worked for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.Alumni Record, p. 36. Samuel "Pop" Harding, tackle/guard: (January 19, 1873 – May 19, 1919) born in Highland, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Harding worked for the Water Department in Washington, D.C., first as a skilled laborer and eventually working his way to the position of foreman.Alumni Record, p. 44. George Harris, quarterback Roland L. Harrison, halfback: born May 4, 1875, in Charlotte Hall, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Harrison worked as a topographer for the U.S. Geological Survey. Parker Mitchell, center Fred Oertly, ? Pearse "Shorty" Prough, halfback/quarterback: (August 15, 1873 – March 29, 1952) he worked as a country squire near Sykesville, Maryland.Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 15, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952. Born to parents George Marion and Georgia Anna (née Choate) Prough, he married Mary née DeVeries on September 27, 1927, and the couple had two sons and two daughters.The Prough Genealogy Pages , The Prough Family History, retrieved December 16, 2010. R. R. "Dick" Pue, guard/center and captain: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1894 and died sometime before 1914.Alumni Record, p. 41. William T. L. "Sherman" Rollins, halfback: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1896 and worked as a supervisor of the census and inspector for the Post Office in Seat Pleasant, Maryland.Alumni Record, p. 52. Henry Sherman, end Clay H. Weimer, fullback: born on August 5, 1874, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1894. He earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898 and worked as an assistant superintendent at the State Hospital in Ashland, Pennsylvania, beginning in 1898. Thomas Wharton, guard Arthur Wooters, end
Non-letterwinners:Morris Allison Bealle, Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952, p. 18, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952. Dick Alvey, tackle W. B. "Will" Crapster, guard: born in 1873 and a native of Taneytown, Maryland, he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1895. Crapster worked as a manager of the Eureka Life Insurance Company in Washington, D.C. He married on April 19, 1913.Alumni Record, p. 42. Henry Harrison, guard Fred Lull, guard Howard Strickler, quarterback John Brock, halfback Barnes Compton, end: son of a wealthy Maryland plantation owner, he graduated in 1895 with a B.S. in the Scientific Course and became a clerk of the B&O Railroad.Barnes Compton, MSA SC 3520-1545, Archives of Maryland, Biographical Series, retrieved October 4, 2011. Compton died sometime before 1914.Alumni Record of the Maryland Agricultural College: 1914, Maryland Agricultural College, p. 42, 1914. Arthur Pue Gorman Jr., guard Tom Greene, fullback
Manager: Sothoron Key: he graduated with a B.S. through the Scientific Course in 1894 and an M.S. in 1902. He worked as a physician in Washington, D.C.
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