1939 VPI Gobblers football team

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1939 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1939 record4–5–1 (1–4–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainDavid Marion Pitts
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
1939 Southern Conference football standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 Duke $ 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Clemson 4 – 0 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
William & Mary 2 – 0 – 1 6 – 2 – 1
North Carolina 5 – 1 – 0 8 – 1 – 1
VMI 3 – 1 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
Richmond 3 – 1 – 1 7 – 1 – 2
Furman 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Wake Forest 3 – 3 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
NC State 2 – 4 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
Washington and Lee 1 – 2 – 0 3 – 4 – 1
South Carolina 1 – 3 – 0 3 – 6 – 1
VPI 1 – 4 – 1 4 – 5 – 1
Davidson 1 – 7 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Maryland 0 – 1 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
The Citadel 0 – 4 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1939 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of four wins, five losses and one tie (4–5–1).

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23Randolph–Macon*
W 26–0
September 30at Marshall*
L 0–20
October 72:00 p.m.vs. North Carolina
L 6–1315,000[1][2]
October 14vs. William & Mary
T 6–6
October 21Centre Colonels*dagger
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 28–0
October 28vs. Washington and Lee
L 0–612,000[3]
November 4Furman
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 20–7
November 112:30 p.m.at Richmond
  • City Stadium
  • Richmond, VA
L 0–13[4]
November 18at Virginia*
W 13–0
November 30vs. VMIRoanoke, VA (rivalry)L 7–1920,000[5]

Players[]

The following players were members of the 1939 football team according to the roster published in the 1940 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[5]

VPI 1939 roster
Quarterbacks
  • Richard Davis Kern
  • Samuel B. Rose, Jr.

Guards

  • Van Anderson
  • H. Woodrow Gosney
  • Robert Preston Graves
  • Joseph Franklin Smith
  • William Lee Tate
  • John Charles Wycoff

Tackles

  • James Emory Coleman
  • Frank DeBord
  • Benjamin McCurdy
  • David Marion Pitts (Capt.)
  • Andrew Wellington Todd
  • Ralph Travis Unterzuber

Centers

  • Graham Sullivan Buchanan
  • Herbert Andrews Markle
  • Frank Arthur Streiff
  • William Daniel Zydiak
 Ends
  • Gerald Harley Clark
  • John L. Henderson
  • Robert Lawson
  • Daniel Green Shawhan
  • Louis Willson

Halfbacks

  • William Barnes
  • Philip Galliano DeMuro
  • Mathew Leslie Ellison
  • Willard Joseph Henderson
  • Sherwood Roudabush
  • Herbert Joseph Thomas
  • Albert Crawford Traynham
  • Garrett Ernest Taylor
  • James Walter Woolwine

Fullbacks

  • Irving Ward Boswell
  • Rankin McGuire Hudson
  • George Daniel Warriner

References[]

  1. ^ "Varsity Takes On VPI Today at Norfolk". The Daily Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 7, 1939. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "Lalanne Leads Varsity To 13-6 Victory". The Daily Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 8, 1939. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  3. ^ "Brilliant Defense Gives Generals 6-0 Victory Over VPI" (PDF). Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. October 31, 1939. p. 3. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  4. ^ "Virginia Tech to Oppose Spiders at City Stadium". The Richmond Collegian. University of Richmond. November 10, 1939. p. 4. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  5. ^ a b "The Bugle 1940" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1940. p. 237. Retrieved January 15, 2016.


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