1928 Richmond Spiders football team

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1928 Richmond Spiders football
Conference Virginia Conference
Record3–4–2 (2–3–1 Virginia)
Head coach
Captain Taylor Sanford
Home stadium Tate Field
Seasons
  1927
1929  
1928 Virginia Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Emory and Henry $ 3 0 010 0 0
William & Mary 5 1 06 3 2
Roanoke 3 2 14 4 1
Lynchburg 3 3 05 4 0
Richmond 2 3 13 4 2
Hampden–Sydney 2 3 03 6 0
Bridgewater 0 2 10 6 1
Randolph–Macon 0 4 10 7 1
  • $ Conference champion

The 1928 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Richmond as a member of the Virginia Conference during the 1928 college football season. Led by 15th-year head coach, Frank Dobson, Richmond compiled an overall record of 3–4–2. [1] The team included Herbie Peterson, whom Dobson considered one of the three best backs he ever coached. [2] Richmond played their home games at Tate Field on Mayo Island.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at VMI *
T 6–6 [3]
October 6at Johns Hopkins *
L 13–145,000 [4] [5]
October 133:00 p.m. Emory and Henry L 0–7 [6] [7] [8]
October 20at Elon *W 34–0 [9] [10]
October 27at Roanoke
T 13–13 [11]
November 3 Lynchburg
  • Tate Field
  • Richmond, VA
W 50–16 [12] [13]
November 10 Randolph–Macon
  • Tate Field
  • Richmond, VA
W 30–01,000 [14] [15] [16]
November 172:30 p.m. Hampden–Sydney
  • Tate Field
  • Richmond, VA
L 0–135,000 [17] [18] [19]
November 292:15 p.m. William & Mary
L 0–711,000 [20] [21] [22]

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