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The 1938 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1938 college football season . The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of three wins, five losses and two ties (3–5–2).
Schedule
Source: HokieSports.com: 1938 Virginia Tech football schedule[8]
Players
The following players were members of the 1938 football team according to the roster published in the 1939 edition of The Bugle , the Virginia Tech yearbook.[9]
VPI 1938 roster
Quarterback
Guards
William Harper Devlin
James Anthony Gaugler
Ernest Stuart King
George Yellott Worthington
Tackles
H. Woodrow Gosney
David Marion Pitts
Centers
Samuel Bascom Dunn
Neil Saunders Wood
Ends
Frank Lovitt Oliver
Frank Marion Pierce (Capt.)
Daniel Green Shawhan
Halfbacks
James Raymond Belcher
Irving Ward Boswell
Mathew Leslie Ellison
Albert Sanford Miller
Stanley Covington Powers
Samuel B. Rose, Jr.
Herbert Joseph Thomas
Fullbacks
Rankin McGuire Hudson
George Daniel Warriner
Substitutes
Archie Cameron
Sidney Gordon Campbell
James Emory Coleman
James Stuart Fixx
Robert Preston Graves
Irving Gray
John L. Henderson
Herbert Andrews Markle
Joseph Franklin Smith
Andrew Wellington Todd
James Walter Woolwine
References
^ "Duke vs. V.P.I." VPI vs. Duke Football Program . 1938. p. 1. Retrieved 2017-10-11 .
^ "Blue Devils Meet V.P.I. in Season Opener, Saturday" . The Duke Chronicle . Duke University . September 20, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
^ "Blue Devil Football Team Captures Season's Opener, 18–0" . The Duke Chronicle . Duke University . September 27, 1938. p. 3. Retrieved August 11, 2016 .
^ "Calyx 1939" . Washington and Lee University . 1939. p. 182. Retrieved 2017-07-30 .
^ "Virginia Tech Invades Chapel Hill Today" . The Daily Tar Heel . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . November 5, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
^ "Stirnweiss Sparks Tar Heels To Wet Win" . The Daily Tar Heel . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . November 6, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
^ "Squadron Ties VPI 2–2 In Annual Game" . The V.M.I. Cadet . Virginia Military Institute . November 29, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .
^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1938–1939". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 12, 2016.
^ "The Bugle 1939" (PDF) . Virginia Tech Bugle . 1939. p. 234. Retrieved 2016-01-15 .
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