1953 VPI Gobblers football team

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1953 Southern Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 10 West Virginia $	4	–	0	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
Furman	2	–	0	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
George Washington	4	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
William & Mary	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	1
Richmond	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	3	–	1
VPI	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
VMI	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Washington and Lee	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
The Citadel	1	–	3	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Davidson	0	–	5	–	0			0	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1953 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1953 college football season.

Players

The following players were members of the 1953 football team according to the roster published in the 1954 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.

VPI 1953 roster
	Bob Allen William R. Anderson Richard VanMetre "Dickie" Beard Donald C. Booth Gordon Derwood "Sonny" Bowman Franklin Dewey Brown Leo Burke Hayes Howell Burleson Doug Creger Johnny Dean Hugh David Ebert James Glen Fleenor Harold Byrd Grizzard		James H. Haren James Lupton Hedrick Charles Donald Herb Tom Hughes William Edward Jamerson Edward Houston Kavanaugh William Duncan Kerfoot Julian Neville King Robert Stevens Luttrell Don Mitchell John Moody Thomas R. Petty George Preas Jim Randall		Robert Earl Scruggs Roger Winfield Simmons Donald Gaylon Sink Hunter E. Swink Thompson A.E. Trapp A. Turlington Phillip William Unger Joseph Franklin Wells Don "Ducky" Welsh Jack Williams Ernie Wolfe Bobby Wolfenden Howard Wright