1940 VPI Gobblers football team

1940 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1940 record 5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach Henry Redd (9th season)
Captain James Emory Coleman
John L. Henderson
Home stadium Miles Stadium
1940 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Clemson $ 4 –0 –0  6 –2 –1
No. 18 Duke 4 –1 –0  7 –2 –0
Wake Forest 4 –2 –0  7 –3 –0
William & Mary 2 –1 –1  6 –2 –1
North Carolina 3 –2 –0  6 –4 –0
Richmond 3 –2 –0  7 –3 –0
VMI 3 –2 –1  7 –2 –1
Furman 4 –3 –0  5 –4 –0
Washington and Lee 1 –1 –1  2 –7 –1
VPI 2 –3 –0  5 –5 –0
NC State 3 –5 –0  3 –6 –0
Maryland 0 –1 –1  2 –6 –1
South Carolina 1 –3 –0  3 –6 –0
Davidson 1 –5 –0  5 –5 –0
The Citadel 0 –4 –0  4 –5 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 21, 1940 Catawba* Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 34–12   –
September 28, 1940 at Marshall* Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV L 7–13   –
October 5, 1940 3:00pm[1] Richmond Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA L 7–13   –
October 12, 1940 vs. William & Mary City Stadium • Richmond, VA L 13–20   9,000[2]
October 19, 1940 8:00pm[3] at Georgetown* Griffith Stadium • Washington, DC L 4–46   –
October 26, 1940 vs. Washington and Lee Lynchburg, VA W 21–0   –
November 2, 1940 vs. Virginia* Norfolk, VA (Rivalry) W 6–0   –
November 9, 1940 Furman Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 38–21   –
November 16, 1940 at Centre* Farris Stadium • Danville, KY W 10–6   –
November 21, 1940 vs. VMI Maher Field[4] • Roanoke, VA (Rivalry) L 0–14   21,000[4]
*Non-conference game. All times are in Eastern Time.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1940 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]

Players

The following players were members of the 1940 football team according to the roster published in the 1941 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[6]

VPI 1940 roster
  • Van Anderson
  • Mason Harper Blandford
  • Alton Harwood Belcher
  • Irvin Jean Chasen
  • Gerald Harley Clark
  • James Emory Coleman
  • Robert Preston Graves
  • John L. Henderson
  • Rankin McGuire Hudson
  • William Wilson James
  • William B. Johnson
  • Samuel Benjamin Judy
  • Richard Davis Kern
  • Robert Lawson
  • Roger Nelson McClure
  • Henry Morehead
  • Joseph Franklin Smith
  • J. O. Smith
  • Benjamin Tate
  • William Lee Tate
  • Garrett Ernest Taylor
  • Herbert Joseph Thomas
  • Andrew Wellington Todd
  • Albert Crawford Traynham
  • George Daniel Warriner
  • Eugene Hagy Wheeler
  • James Walter Woolwine
  • Ralph Travis Unterzuber
  • William Daniel Zydiak

References

  1. ↑ "UR Opens Conference Play Against Tech". The Richmond Collegian. University of Richmond. October 4, 1940. p. 4. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Colonial Echo 1941" (PDF). Colonial Echo. 1941. p. 198. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  3. ↑ "Georgetown vs. V.P.I. Official Program". VPI vs. Georgetown Football Program. 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  4. 1 2 "VMI Runs Rough-Shod Over Tech 14 to 0". The V.M.I. Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 25, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1940–1941". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Bugle 1941" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1941. p. 237. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
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