1915 VPI Gobblers football team

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1915 South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Virginia + 2 0 0 8 1 0
Washington and Lee + 2 0 0 6 1 1
Georgetown + 2 0 0 7 2 0
Catholic University 1 0 0 5 2 0
Johns Hopkins 1 0 0 1 0 0
Richmond 0 1 0 4 4 1
VPI 0 1 0 4 4 0
North Carolina A&M 0 2 0 3 3 1
North Carolina 0 2 0 4 3 1
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1915 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1915 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Branch Bocock and finished with a record of four wins and four losses (4–4).

Schedule

September 26, 1915Roanoke College*

W 26–0 - October 2, 1915Randolph–Macon*

  • Miles Field
  • Blacksburg, VA

W 19–3 - October 9, 1915Hampden–Sydney*

  • Miles Field
  • Blacksburg, VA

W 19–0 - October 16, 1915vs. Washington and LeeRoanoke, VAL 0–13 4,000[1] October 23, 1915at Navy*

L 0–20 - October 30, 1915at Cornell*

L 0–45 - November 13, 1915at West Virginia*Morgantown, WV (Rivalry)L 0–19 - November 25, 1915vs. VMI*Roanoke, VA (Rivalry)W 27–9 -

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  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1915 Virginia Tech football schedule[2]

Players

The following players were members of the 1915 football team according to the roster published in the 1916 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]

VPI 1915 roster
Quarterbacks
  • Joseph Thomas Engleby
  • Edward Kramer Funkhouser
  • Arthur Palfrey Terry

Guards

  • Arthur Penick Moore
  • George Ellsworth Treakle

Tackles

  • Loyal Clark Benedict
  • Harry Joe Bopp
  • John Staub Caffee
  • Harry Temple Parrish
Centers
  • Robert Ashby Henderson
  • Arthur Blakie Moore

Ends

  • Benjamin Cottrell
  • James Atkins Gregory
  • Lyle George Hall

Halfbacks

  • Vincent Bargmant Dixon (Capt.)
  • Robert Evans Denny
  • David Nicholas Huddle
  • James Franklin Powell

Fullback

Substitutes
  • Thomas Franklin Clemmer
  • Allen Ernest Cloyd
  • Frederick Dean
  • Frank Allison Engleby
  • Leonard Myrton Gaines
  • Turner Ashby Graves
  • Francis Alexander Gray
  • Richard Harvey
  • Percy Stuart Hayden
  • Russell Minor Howell
  • Charles Lewter Logan
  • William Murry Lybrook
  • Harry Douglas Roden
  • Henry Luck Rosenbaum
  • John Lee Thompson
  • Walter Lee Turner
  • Charles Evans Whitmore
  • W. R. Williams

References

  1. ^ "Generals Defeat Techs 13 To 0" (PDF). Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. October 19, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1915–1916". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed December 6, 2015.
  3. ^ "The Bugle 1916" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1916. p. 192. Retrieved 2015-12-07.