1961 VPI Gobblers football team

1961 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1961 record 4–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach Jerry Claiborne (1st season)
Home stadium Lane Stadium
1961 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
The Citadel $ 5 –1 –0  7 –3 –0
Richmond 5 –2 –0  5 –5 –0
VMI 4 –2 –0  6 –4 –0
West Virginia 2 –1 –0  4 –6 –0
Furman 2 –2 –0  7 –3 –0
George Washington 3 –4 –0  3 –6 –0
VPI 2 –3 –0  4 –5 –0
Davidson 1 –4 –0  4 –4 –0
William & Mary 1 –6 –0  1 –9 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1961 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1961 college football season.[1]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 16, 1961 vs. William & Mary Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia W 20–6   –
October 7, 1961 at West Virginia Mountaineer Field • Morgantown, West Virginia (Rivalry) L 0–28   –
October 14, 1961 at Tulane* Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana L 14–27   –
October 21, 1961 vs. Virginia* Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia (Rivalry) W 20–0   –
October 28, 1961 Florida State*dagger Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, Virginia W 10–7   15,000[2]
November 4, 1961 at Richmond City Stadium • Richmond, Virginia L 0–11   –
November 11, 1961 at Wake Forest* Bowman Gray Stadium • Winston-Salem, North Carolina L 15–24   –
November 17, 1961 George Washington Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, Virginia W 14–3   –
November 23, 1961 vs. VMI Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia (Rivalry) L 0–6   –
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. All times are in Eastern Time.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1961 Virginia Tech football schedule[3]

Players

The following players were members of the 1961 football team according to the roster published in the 1962 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[2]

VPI 1961 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb
  • Ray Barile
  • Gerald Bobbitte
  • Harold Bolden
  • Herb Bowling
  • Gene Breen
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Pete Cartwright
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Bloice Davison
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Randall Edwards
  • John Farmer
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • David W. Gillespie
  • Richard B. Goode
  • Ron Hawkins
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Charles F. Hines
  • Robert Gerald Holbrook
  • Don Jensen
  • Warren Maccaroni
  • Ray Massie
  • John W. Minichan
  • Joe Moss
  • Bob Peak
  • Noah Redding "Buddy" Perry
  • Charles Warren Price, Jr.
  • Art Pruett
  • Bill Robertson
  • Aster Sizemore
  • Charlie Speck
  • Terry L. Strock
  • Amos Leon Tomblin
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Al Verthein
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Roger Whitley

References

  1. ↑ "1961 Virginia Tech Hokies". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  2. 1 2 "The Bugle 1962" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1962. p. 213. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  3. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1961–1962". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 21, 2018.
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