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1963 VPI Gobblers football team

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1963 VPI Gobblers football
SoCon champion
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record8–2 (5–0 SoCon)
Head coach
Seasons
← 1962
1964 →
1963 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
VPI $ 5 0 0 8 2 0
West Virginia 3 1 0 4 6 0
VMI 3 1 2 3 5 2
Furman 3 2 0 7 3 0
William & Mary 4 4 0 4 6 0
Richmond 2 2 1 3 6 1
The Citadel 2 4 0 4 6 0
George Washington 1 5 0 2 7 0
Davidson 0 4 1 1 5 2
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1963 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1963 college football season.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21at Kentucky*L 14–33
September 28at Wake Forest*W 27–0
October 5vs. Virginia*W 10–0
October 11at George WashingtonW 22–87,000
October 19William & MarydaggerW 28–13
October 26at Florida State*W 31–2316,500
November 22:00 p.m.at RichmondW 14–1318,000
November 9at NC State*L 7–13
November 16at West VirginiaW 28–3
November 28vs. VMI
W 35–2027,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

Players

The following players were members of the 1963 football team according to the roster published in the 1964 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[2]

VPI 1963 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb, Jr.
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Joe Bloomer
  • Gene Breen
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • Paul Frederick Cobb
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Bill Edwards
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • Les Hanly
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Tom Hidell
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Ed Jeffrey
  • Basil G. Jennings
  • Lynn Jones
  • Bill Kegley
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Harry Leland
  • Ronnie Lindon
  • Tommy Marvin
  • Claude Earl Messamore, Jr.
  • Bobby Owens
  • Darrell Page
  • Larry Philpot
  • John Raible
  • Douglas Bradley Robbins
  • Burt Mack Rodgers
  • Fred Michael Saunders
  • Bob Schweickert
  • John Sheehy
  • John George Shipley
  • James Simmons
  • Douglas Lee Ulery
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Ken Whitley

References

  1. ^ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/virginia-tech/1963-schedule.html
  2. ^ "The Bugle 1964" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1964. p. 294. Retrieved 2017-12-04.