1953 VPI Gobblers football team

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1953 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1953 record5–5 (3–3 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
Seasons
← 1952
1954 →
1953 Southern Conference football standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 West Virginia $ 4 – 0 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Furman 2 – 0 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
George Washington 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
William & Mary 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 1
Richmond 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 3 – 1
VPI 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
VMI 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Washington and Lee 2 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
The Citadel 1 – 3 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Davidson 0 – 5 – 0 0 – 9 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1953 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1953 college football season.[1]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 198:00 p.m.vs. Marshall*
W 7–0
September 26at Virginia*
W 20–6
October 3at Rutgers*
L 13–20[2]
October 10Richmond
W 21–7
October 17at William & Mary
L 7–1312,500[3]
October 24Washington and Leedagger
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 32–1211,000[4]
October 30vs. The Citadel
W 22–0
November 71:45 p.m.vs. West Virginia
  • Bluefield Municipal Stadium
  • Bluefield, WV (rivalry)
L 7–1212,300[5]
November 13at Miami (FL)*
L 0–2617,000[6]
November 261:00 p.m.vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 13–2826,000[7][8]

Players[]

The following players were members of the 1953 football team according to the roster published in the 1954 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[4]

VPI 1953 roster
  • Bob Allen
  • William R. Anderson
  • Richard VanMetre "Dickie" Beard
  • Donald C. Booth
  • Gordon Derwood "Sonny" Bowman II
  • Franklin Dewey Brown
  • Leo Burke
  • Hayes Howell Burleson
  • Doug Creger
  • Johnny Dean
  • Hugh David Ebert
  • James Glen Fleenor
  • Harold Byrd Grizzard
  • James H. Haren
  • James Lupton Hedrick
  • Charles Donald Herb
  • Tom Hughes
  • William Edward Jamerson
  • Edward Houston Kavanaugh
  • William Duncan Kerfoot
  • Julian Neville King
  • Robert Stevens Luttrell
  • Don Mitchell
  • John Stewart Moody
  • Thomas R. Petty
  • George Preas
  • Jim Randall
  • Robert Earl Scruggs
  • Roger Winfield Simmons
  • Donald Gaylon Sink
  • Hunter E. Swink
  • Thompson
  • A.E. Trapp
  • A. Turlington
  • Phillip William Unger
  • Joseph Franklin Wells
  • Don "Ducky" Welsh
  • Jack Williams
  • Ernie Wolfe
  • Bobby Wolfenden
  • Howard Irving Wright

References[]

  1. ^ "1953 Virginia Tech Hokies". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  2. ^ Capaldo, Chuck (October 4, 1953). "Rutgers' Splurge Upends VPI". Daily Press. Newport News, Va. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Big Green Silences Squawking Gobblers in Thriller" (PDF). The Flat Hat. College of William & Mary. October 20, 1953. p. 5. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "The Bugle 1954" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1954. p. 259. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  5. ^ "V.P.I. vs W.V.U. – 3rd Annual Coal Bowl". VPI vs. WVU Football Program. 1953. p. 1. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  6. ^ "Florida Minded UM Nabs Third Win, Whips Outclassed Virginia Tech 26-0". The Miami Hurricane. University of Miami. November 20, 1953. p. 20. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  7. ^ "VMI Plays Host To Gobblers at Victory Stadium on Thursday". The Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 23, 1953. p. 1. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  8. ^ "Flying Squadron Wallops V.P.I. Hokies 28-to-13". The Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 30, 1953. p. 1. Retrieved July 21, 2017.


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