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1900 VMI Keydets football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4557759 ↗
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The 1900 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in their tenth season of organized football. The Keydets went 4–1–2 under their new head coach Sam Walker.

The team's All-Southern Tackle was George C. Marshall, who went on to serve as Army Chief of Staff during World War II, and Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under President Truman.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Keydets, football and team can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1900 VMI Keydets football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.