1962 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team

1962 Virginia Tech Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
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
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 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute or VPI (now known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University or Virginia Tech) as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. Led by second-year head coach Jerry Claiborne the Gobblers compiled an overall record of 5–5 with a mark of 2–3 in conference play, and finished sixth in the SoCon. VPI played home games at Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15at William & Mary
L 0–310,000[2]
September 223:00 p.m.vs. George Washington
W 15–148,000[3]
September 29vs. West Virginia
L 0–1419,000[4]
October 62:30 p.m.vs. Virginia*
W 20–1518,000[5]
October 132:00 p.m.Richmond
W 13–7[6][7]
October 20at Army*
L 12–2025,124[8]
October 27at Florida State*
L 7–2016,000[9]
November 3at Tulane*
W 24–2218,000[10]
November 10Wake Forest*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 37–88,200[11]
November 221:30 p.m.vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 9–1425,000[12]

Roster

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.[13]

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". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
  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. ^ "Slow-moving West Virginia tops V.P.I. 14–0". The Courier-Journal. September 30, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Tech the Reaper in Harvest Bowl, 20–15". The Roanoke Times. October 7, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Spiders Face Gobblers; Operation Rebound On". The Collegian. University of Richmond. October 12, 1962. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  8. ^ "Army tabs VPI 20–12". Sunday News. October 21, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "FSU manpower overcomes VPI". The Orlando Sentinel. October 28, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Tech trims Tulane by 24–22". The Times-Dispatch. November 4, 1962. Retrieved September 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Sophomore sparks Virginia Tech over Wake Forest, 37–8". Asheville Citizen-Times. November 11, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "V.M.I. tops Virginia Tech, 14–9, for 6–0 Southern slate". The Baltimore Sun. November 23, 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "The Bugle 1963" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1963. p. 186. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
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