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1962 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
Seasons
← 1961
1963 →
1962 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
VMI $ 6 – 0 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
West Virginia 4 – 0 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Richmond 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
William & Mary 4 – 3 – 1 4 – 5 – 1
Furman 2 – 2 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Virginia Tech 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
The Citadel 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
George Washington 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Davidson 0 – 4 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1962 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1962 college football season.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 15at William & Mary
L 0–3
September 22vs. George Washington
W 15–14
September 29vs. West Virginia
L 0–14
October 6vs. Virginia*
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 20–15
October 132:00 p.m.[2]Richmonddagger
W 13–7
October 20at Army*
L 12–20
October 27at Florida State*
L 7–20
November 3at Tulane*
W 24–22
November 10Wake Forest*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 37–8
November 22vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 9–1425,000
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1962 Virginia Tech football schedule[3]

Players

The following players were members of the 1962 football team according to the roster published in the 1963 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[4]

VPI 1962 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Gerald Bobbitte
  • Joe Bloomer
  • K. "Buddy" Booth
  • Gene Breen
  • Jim Brown
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Pete Cartwright
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • George Clark
  • George Washington Clear
  • Joseph Edward Cox
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Martin Forbes
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • David W. Gillespie
  • Bob Gregory
  • Tom Hampton
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Lynn Jones
  • T. Jones
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Bosey Lane
  • Tommy Marvin
  • M. McQuary
  • John Mullins
  • Darrell Page
  • Bob Peak
  • Larry Philpot
  • Douglas Bradley Robbins
  • Randy Robinette
  • Burt Mack Rodgers
  • Bob Schweickert
  • Aster Sizemore
  • C. Stevens
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Al Verthein
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Calvin Beecher Wolfe

References

  1. ^ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/virginia-tech/1962-schedule.html
  2. ^ "Spiders Face Gobblers; Operation Rebound On". The Collegian. University of Richmond. October 12, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1962". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed August 15, 2018.
  4. ^ "The Bugle 1963" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1963. p. 186. Retrieved 2017-12-01.


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