1962 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
1962 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
VMI $ 6 0 06 4 0
West Virginia 4 0 08 2 0
Richmond 3 2 06 3 0
William & Mary 4 3 14 5 1
Furman 2 2 04 6 0
VPI 2 3 05 5 0
The Citadel 1 4 03 7 0
George Washington 1 5 03 7 0
Davidson 0 4 13 5 1
  • $ Conference champion

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

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15at William & MaryL 0–310,000[2]
September 22vs. George WashingtonW 15–148,000[3]
September 29vs. West VirginiaL 0–14
October 6vs. Virginia*
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 20–1518,000
October 132:00 p.m.RichmonddaggerW 13–7[4][5]
October 20at Army*L 12–20
October 27at Florida State*L 7–20
November 3at Tulane*W 24–2218,000[6]
November 10Wake Forest*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 37–88,200
November 22vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 9–1425,000

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.[7]

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. "1962 Virginia Tech Hokies Schedule and Results".
  2. "Indians nip VPI, 3–0, on 20-yard field goal". The Sunday Star. September 16, 1962. Retrieved October 24, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Tech edges GW, 15 to 14". Richmond Times Dispatch. September 23, 1962. Retrieved February 8, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Virginia Tech tops Richmond 13–7 on Cahill's last quarter dash". The Bristol Herald Courier. October 14, 1962. Retrieved October 26, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Spiders Face Gobblers; Operation Rebound On". The Collegian. University of Richmond. October 12, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  6. "Tech trims Tulane by 24–22". The Times-Dispatch. November 4, 1962. Retrieved September 20, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "The Bugle 1963" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1963. p. 186. Retrieved December 1, 2017.


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