12 Facts About Hunter Carpenter

Caius Hunter Carpenter was an American college football halfback who played for both Virginia Tech and North Carolina.

Hunter Carpenter attended Clifton Forge High School in Clifton Forge, Virginia.

Hunter Carpenter was never named to the All-America team only because Walter Camp, who named the team at the time, said he would never name a player who he had not seen play.

Hunter Carpenter was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957.

Hunter Carpenter enrolled at Virginia Tech in 1898, and played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team from 1899 through 1903.

Hunter Carpenter became a man possessed by one thing after Tech was routed by UVA in 1899: beating the Cavaliers in football.

Hunter Carpenter is considered by many to be one of greatest football players ever to attend Virginia Tech.

Hunter Carpenter was named captain of the team in 1902.

Hunter Carpenter returned to Virginia Tech in 1905 for a last shot at beating Virginia in his eighth year of college football.

Virginia accused Hunter Carpenter of being a professional player, as he had played college football already for nearly a decade.

Hunter Carpenter was ejected midway through the game for throwing the ball at the face of a Virginia defender, but stayed on the sidelines to watch as neither team was able to score against each other.

Hunter Carpenter left immediately after the game and moved to Middleton, New York, never to return to the Commonwealth.