1962 VPI Gobblers football team

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

1962 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1962 record5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
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

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15at William & Mary
L 0–3
September 22vs. George Washington
W 15–148,000[2]
September 29vs. West Virginia
L 0–14
October 6vs. Virginia*
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 20–15
October 132:00 p.m.[3]Richmond
W 13–7
October 20at Army*
L 12–20
October 27at Florida State*
L 7–20
November 3at Tulane*
W 24–22
November 10Wake Forest*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 37–8
November 22vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 9–1425,000
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1962 Virginia Tech football schedule[4]

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.[5]

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. "Tech edges GW, 15 to 14". Richmond Times Dispatch. September 23, 1962. Retrieved February 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Spiders Face Gobblers; Operation Rebound On". The Collegian. University of Richmond. October 12, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  4. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1962". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed August 15, 2018.
  5. "The Bugle 1963" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1963. p. 186. Retrieved 2017-12-01.


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