Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association Team Season.
The 1899 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute in their ninth season of organized football. Samuel Boyle Jr. coached his second season for the Keydets which featured only one game—a 39–0 win over Washington & Lee. Although the team only played one game in mid-October the squad was assembled for practice in early September.The 1899 football season at VMI was cut short by an outbreak of typhoid fever on the campus.
