1962 VPI Gobblers football team

1962 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1962 record 5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach Jerry Claiborne (2nd season)
1962 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
VMI $ 6 –0 –0  6 –4 –0
West Virginia 4 –0 –0  8 –2 –0
Richmond 3 –2 –0  6 –3 –0
William & Mary 4 –3 –1  4 –5 –1
Furman 2 –2 –0  4 –6 –0
VPI 2 –3 –0  5 –5 –0
The Citadel 1 –4 –0  3 –7 –0
George Washington 1 –5 –0  3 –7 –0
Davidson 0 –4 –1  3 –5 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1962 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1962 college football season.[1]

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 15, 1962 at William & Mary Cary Field • Williamsburg, Virginia L 0–3   –
September 22, 1962 vs. George Washington Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia W 15–14   –
September 29, 1962 vs. West Virginia City Stadium • Richmond, Virginia (Tobacco Bowl and Rivalry) L 0–14   –
October 6, 1962 vs. Virginia* Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia (Rivalry) W 20–15   –
October 13, 1962 2:00pm[2] Richmonddagger Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, Virginia W 13–7   –
October 20, 1962 at Army* Michie Stadium • West Point, New York L 12–20   –
October 27, 1962 at Florida State* Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, Florida L 7–20   –
November 3, 1962 at Tulane* Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana W 24–22   –
November 10, 1962 Wake Forest* Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, Virginia W 37–8   –
November 22, 1962 vs. VMI Victory Stadium • Roanoke, Virginia (Rivalry) L 9–14   –
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. All times are in Eastern Time.
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1962 Virginia Tech football schedule[3]

Players

The following players were members of the 1962 football team according to the roster published in the 1963 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[4]

VPI 1962 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Gerald Bobbitte
  • Joe Bloomer
  • K. "Buddy" Booth
  • Gene Breen
  • Jim Brown
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Pete Cartwright
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • George Clark
  • George Washington Clear
  • Joseph Edward Cox
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Martin Forbes
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • David W. Gillespie
  • Bob Gregory
  • Tom Hampton
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Lynn Jones
  • T. Jones
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Bosey Lane
  • Tommy Marvin
  • M. McQuary
  • John Mullins
  • Darrell Page
  • Bob Peak
  • Larry Philpot
  • Douglas Bradley Robbins
  • Randy Robinette
  • Burt Mack Rodgers
  • Bob Schweickert
  • Aster Sizemore
  • C. Stevens
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Al Verthein
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Calvin Beecher Wolfe

References

  1. ↑ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/virginia-tech/1962-schedule.html
  2. ↑ "Spiders Face Gobblers; Operation Rebound On". The Collegian. University of Richmond. October 12, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1962". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed August 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Bugle 1963" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1963. p. 186. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
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