1962 VPI Gobblers football team

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

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

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15at William & Mary
L 0–310,000[2]
September 22vs. George Washington
W 15–148,000[3]
September 29vs. West Virginia
L 0–14
October 6vs. Virginia*
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 20–1518,000
October 132:00 p.m.Richmonddagger
W 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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