1947 VPI Gobblers football team

1947 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1947 record 4–5 (4–3 SoCon)
Head coach James Kitts (3rd season)
Captain Billy Shelby Barbour
Bobby Smith
Home stadium Miles Stadium
1947 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 14 William & Mary 7 –1 –0  9 –2 –0
No. 9 North Carolina 4 –1 –0  8 –2 –0
South Carolina 4 –1 –1  6 –2 –1
No. 19 Duke 3 –1 –1  4 –3 –2
Washington and Lee 3 –2 –0  5 –5 –0
Maryland 3 –2 –1  7 –2 –2
No. 17 NC State 3 –2 –1  5 –3 –1
VPI 4 –3 –0  4 –5 –0
Davidson 3 –3 –1  6 –3 –1
Wake Forest 3 –4 –0  6 –4 –0
VMI 2 –3 –1  3 –5 –1
Clemson 1 –3 –0  4 –5 –0
The Citadel 1 –4 –0  3 –5 –0
Furman 1 –4 –0  2 –7 –0
Richmond 1 –5 –0  3 –7 –0
George Washington 0 –4 –0  1 –7 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1947 college football season. The team was led by their head coach James Kitts and finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5).

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 27, 1947 Furman Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 20–6   10,000
October 4, 1947 vs. Virginia* Victory Stadium • Roanoke, VA (Rivalry) L 7–41   -
October 11, 1947 vs. William & Mary City Stadium • Richmond, VA L 7–21   -
October 18, 1947 at No. 7 Army* Michie Stadium • West Point, NY L 0–40   -
October 25, 1947 Marylanddagger Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA L 19–21   12,500-13,000
October 31, 1947 8:00pm[1] at George Washington Griffith Stadium • Washington, DC W 42–6   -
November 8, 1947 vs. Washington and Lee Municipal Stadium • Lynchburg, VA W 27–14   -
November 15, 1947 Richmond Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 26–14   -
November 27, 1947 vs. VMI Victory Stadium • Roanoke, VA (Rivalry) L 14–28   29,000[2]–33,000[3]
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1947 Virginia Tech football schedule[4]

NFL Draft selections

= NFL Hall of Fame = Canadian Football Hall of Fame = College Football Hall of Fame
NFL Draft Selections 
Year Round Pick Overall Name Team Position
1951 28 10 337 Sterling Wingo Los Angeles Rams Back

Players

The following players were members of the 1947 football team according to the roster published in the 1948 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]

VPI 1947 roster
  • Jim Adams
  • Victor Anderson
  • Frank H. Ballard
  • Billy Shelby Barbour (Capt.)
  • William Ernest Baucom
  • Ralph Coe Beard
  • Raymond Rucker Beasley
  • Floyd Samuel Bowles
  • Robert LeRoy Browder
  • Maynard Leon David Bruce
  • Thomas Craig Burns
  • Donald Butkovsky
  • Coy Lenard Chambers
  • Joseph Litton Church
  • Pete "Chip" Collum
  • Jack Cooke
  • Mervin K. Cox
  • Billy Patrick DeNardo
  • Richard T. DeShazo
  • William Donovan
  • Hubert Wallace Dutton
  • Bruce Mills "Bud" Fisher
  • Charles Mugler Forbes
  • Robert Fracker
  • Nelson Fuller
  • John E. "Jack" Gallagher
  • William Hughes Hegamyer
  • Robert Hess
  • Joseph William Hoffmann Jr.
  • Oren Edward Hopkins
  • Jack Ross Ittner
  • Cary Kenyon Johnson
  • Robert Edward Johnson
  • Ted James Johnson
  • Howard Jones
  • Jimmy Kitts
  • John Harry Kroehling
  • Anthony Thomas Kujawa
  • Carl Leonard
  • John James Maskas
  • J. Cordell McCraw
  • Augustus Paul Mengulas
  • Hamilton Otey Meriwether
  • Ronald Garland Miller
  • Elmo Natali
  • Ross Moore Orr
  • Horace Lee Pearce
  • Erving Hascall Rand
  • Frank Ransome
  • Bernard Sizemore
  • Bobby Smith (Capt.)
  • G. L. "Pete" Smith
  • Warren William Squires
  • John Robert Stortz
  • Bob Taylor
  • Franklin Ray Taylor
  • David Lacy Thomas
  • W. Harry Walton
  • Robert Franklin Webb
  • Richard White
  • Donald Lindbergh Whiteman
  • William Elmer Wilson
  • Sterling Lagrand Wingo
  • Gerhard Charles Zekert
  • Paul Ethan "Zig" Zender

References

  1. ↑ "George Washington vs. V.P.I. The George Washington Athletic Review". VPI vs. George Washington Football Program. 1947. p. 1. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  2. ↑ "Squadron Flies Over Gobblers 28–14". The V.M.I. Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. December 1, 1947. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The Bugle 1948" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1948. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  4. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1947–1948". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 23, 2016.
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