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1947 VPI Gobblers football team

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1947 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 14 William & Mary $ 7 1 0 9 2 0
No. 9 North Carolina 4 1 0 8 2 0
South Carolina 4 1 1 6 2 1
No. 19 Duke 3 1 1 4 3 2
Washington and Lee 3 2 0 5 5 0
Maryland 3 2 1 7 2 2
No. 17 NC State 3 2 1 5 3 1
VPI 4 3 0 4 5 0
Davidson 3 3 1 6 3 1
Wake Forest 3 4 0 6 4 0
VMI 2 3 1 3 5 1
Clemson 1 3 0 4 5 0
The Citadel 1 4 0 3 5 0
Furman 1 4 0 2 7 0
Richmond 1 5 0 3 7 0
George Washington 0 4 0 1 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1947 college football season. The team was led by their head coach James Kitts and finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5).

Schedule

September 27, 1947Furman

W 20–6 - October 4, 1947vs. Virginia*

L 7–41 - October 11, 1947vs. William & Mary

L 7–21 - October 18, 1947at No. 7 Army*

L 0–40 - October 25, 1947Marylanddagger

L 19–21 12,500-13,000 October 31, 1947at George Washington

W 42–6 - November 8, 1947vs. Washington and Lee

W 27–14 - November 15, 1947Richmond

W 26–14 - November 27, 1947vs. VMI

L 14–28 29,000[1]–33,000[2]

Template:CFB Schedule End

  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1947 Virginia Tech football schedule[3]

NFL Draft selections

= NFL Hall of Fame = Canadian Football Hall of Fame = College Football Hall of Fame
NFL Draft Selections 
Year Round Pick Overall Name Team Position
1951 28 10 337 Sterling Wingo Los Angeles Rams Back

Players

The following players were members of the 1947 football team according to the roster published in the 1948 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[2]

VPI 1947 roster
  • Jim Adams
  • Victor Anderson
  • Frank H. Ballard
  • Billy Shelby Barbour (Capt.)
  • William Ernest Baucom
  • Ralph Coe Beard
  • Raymond Rucker Beasley
  • Floyd Samuel Bowles
  • Robert LeRoy Browder
  • Maynard Leon David Bruce
  • Thomas Craig Burns
  • Donald Butkovsky
  • Coy Lenard Chambers
  • Joseph Litton Church
  • Pete "Chip" Collum
  • Jack Cooke
  • Mervin K. Cox
  • Billy Patrick DeNardo
  • Richard T. DeShazo
  • William Donovan
  • Hubert Wallace Dutton
  • Bruce Mills "Bud" Fisher
  • Charles Mugler Forbes
  • Robert Fracker
  • William H. Hegamyer
  • Bob Hess
  • Oren Edward Hopkins
  • Jack Ross Ittner
  • Cary Kenyon Johnson
  • Red Johnson
  • Howard Jones
  • Jimmy Kitts
  • John Harry Kroehling
  • Anthony Thomas Kujawa
  • Carl Leonard
  • J. Cordell McCraw
  • Augustus Paul Mengulas
  • Hamilton Otey Meriwether
  • Ronald Garland Miller
  • Elmo Natali
  • Ross Moore Orr
  • Horace Lee Pearce
  • Erving Hascall Rand
  • Bernard Sizemore
  • Bobby Smith (Capt.)
  • G. L. "Pete" Smith
  • Warren William Squires
  • John Robert Stortz
  • Bob Taylor
  • Franklin Ray Taylor
  • David Lacy Thomas
  • W. Harry Walton
  • Robert Franklin Webb
  • Richard White
  • Donald Lindbergh Whiteman
  • Sterling Lagrand Wingo
  • Gerhard Charles Zekert

References

  1. ^ "Squadron Flies Over Gobblers 28–14". The V.M.I. Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. December 1, 1947. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "The Bugle 1948" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1948. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  3. ^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1947–1948". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 23, 2016.