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The 1937 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1937 college football season . The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).
Schedule
Source: HokieSports.com: 1937 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]
Players
The following players were members of the 1937 football team according to the roster published in the 1938 edition of The Bugle , the Virginia Tech yearbook.[6]
VPI 1937 roster
James Raymond Belcher
Stephen B. Bogese
Irving Ward Boswell
Billy Boyd
Graham S. Buchanan
Archibald Branks Cameron
Joe Carr
Martin Ricks Cobb
Marvin Andrew "Pete" Cregger
Weldon Darnell
James Blackwell Davis
Philip Galliano DeMuro
William Harper Devlin
Lloyd Gibbs Doxey
Samuel Bascom Dunn
Mathew Leslie Ellison
Leonard H. Futrell
James Anthony Gaugler
John Alfred Hamer
Melvin Henry
Paul Higgins
Wade Hampton Hitt
Woodrow Kantner
Ernest Stuart King
Howard Dilworth Mast
William McClelland
Albert Sanford Miller
Ruffner Page Murray
Frank Lovitt Oliver
Frank Marion Pierce
David Marion Pitts
Stanley Covington Powers
Arthur Stephen Robison
Brick Rothrock
Rochelle Rountree
Daniel Green Shawhan
Carol Leo Shockey (Capt.)
Chilton Shorter
Claude Simpson
George Thorpe
Leo Arthur Vecellio
Edgar Waugh
Boswell William
Louis Willson
Neil Saunders Wood
Robert Woolwine
Woodrum Woolwine
George Yellott Worthington
Thomas Wright
Walter E. Zilahy
References
^ a b "Night Game to Usher in 1937 Grid Season For Blue Devil Eleven" . The Duke Chronicle . Duke University . September 24, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
^ "Wademen Open Season With Win Over V.P.I." The Duke Chronicle . Duke University . September 28, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
^ "State Defeats V.P.I. Gobblers By 13–7 Count" . Technician . North Carolina State University . October 22, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved February 2, 2016 .
^ "Big Blue Downed 19-7 At Tech Homecoming" (PDF) . Ring-tum Phi . Washington and Lee University . October 26, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved February 1, 2016 .
^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1937–1938". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 11, 2016.
^ "The Bugle 1938" (PDF) . Virginia Tech Bugle . 1938. p. 216. Retrieved 2016-01-11 .
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