1963 VPI Gobblers football team

1963 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1963 record 82 (50 SoCon)
Head coach Jerry Claiborne (3rd season)
1963 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
VPI $ 5 0 0  8 2 0
West Virginia 3 1 0  4 6 0
VMI 3 1 2  3 5 2
Furman 3 2 0  7 3 0
William & Mary 4 4 0  4 6 0
Richmond 2 2 1  3 6 1
The Citadel 2 4 0  4 6 0
George Washington 1 5 0  2 7 0
Davidson 0 4 1  1 5 2
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1963 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1963 college football season.[1]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
September 21 at Kentucky* Stoll Field/McLean StadiumLexington, KY L 14–33  
September 28 at Wake Forest* Bowman Gray StadiumWinston-Salem, NC W 27–0  
October 5 vs. Virginia* Victory StadiumRoanoke, VA (Rivalry) W 10–0  
October 11 at George Washington District of Columbia StadiumWashington, D.C. W 22–8  
October 19 William & Marydagger Miles StadiumBlacksburg, VA W 28–13  
October 26 at Florida State* Doak Campbell StadiumTallahassee, FL W 31–23  
November 2 at Richmond City StadiumRichmond, VA W 14–13  
November 9 at NC State* Riddick StadiumRaleigh, NC L  7–13  
November 16 at West Virginia Old Mountaineer FieldMorgantown, WV (Rivalry) W 28–3  
November 28 vs. VMI Victory StadiumRoanoke, VA (Rivalry) W 35–20  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

Source:[2]

Players

The following players were members of the 1963 football team according to the roster published in the 1964 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]

VPI 1963 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb, Jr.
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Joe Bloomer
  • Gene Breen
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • Paul Frederick Cobb
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Bill Edwards
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • Les Hanly
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Tom Hidell
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Ed Jeffrey
  • Basil G. Jennings
  • Lynn Jones
  • Bill Kegley
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Harry Leland
  • Ronnie Lindon
  • Tommy Marvin
  • Claude Earl Messamore, Jr.
  • Bobby Owens
  • Darrell Page
  • Larry Philpot
  • John Raible
  • Douglas Bradley Robbins
  • Burt Mack Rodgers
  • Fred Michael Saunders
  • Bob Schweickert
  • John Sheehy
  • John George Shipley
  • James Simmons
  • Douglas Lee Ulery
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Ken Whitley

References

  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/virginia-tech/1963-schedule.html
  2. http://www.hokiesports.com/football/schedule/1963
  3. "The Bugle 1964" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1964. p. 294. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
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