1940 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1940 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).

1940 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1940 record5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainJames Emory Coleman
John L. Henderson
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
1940 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Clemson $ 4 0 0  6 2 1
No. 18 Duke 4 1 0  7 2 0
Wake Forest 4 2 0  7 3 0
William & Mary 2 1 1  6 2 1
North Carolina 3 2 0  6 4 0
Richmond 3 2 0  7 3 0
VMI 3 2 1  7 2 1
Furman 4 3 0  5 4 0
Washington and Lee 1 1 1  2 7 1
VPI 2 3 0  5 5 0
NC State 3 5 0  3 6 0
Maryland 0 1 1  2 6 1
South Carolina 1 3 0  3 6 0
Davidson 1 5 0  5 5 0
The Citadel 0 4 0  4 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21Catawba*W 34–12
September 28at Marshall*L 7–13
October 53:00 p.m.[1]Richmond
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
L 7–13
October 12vs. William & MaryL 13–209,000[2]
October 198:00 p.m.[3]at Georgetown*L 4–46
October 26vs. Washington and LeeLynchburg, VAW 21–0
November 2vs. Virginia*Norfolk, VA (rivalry)W 6–0
November 9Furman
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 38–21
November 16at Centre*W 10–6
November 21vs. VMI
L 0–1421,000[4]
  • Source: HokieSports.com: 1940 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]

Players

The following players were members of the 1940 football team according to the roster published in the 1941 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[6]

VPI 1940 roster
  • Van Anderson
  • Mason Harper Blandford
  • Alton Harwood Belcher
  • Irvin Jean Chasen
  • Gerald Harley Clark
  • James Emory Coleman
  • Robert Preston Graves
  • John L. Henderson
  • Rankin McGuire Hudson
  • William Wilson James
  • William B. Johnson
  • Samuel Benjamin Judy
  • Richard Davis Kern
  • Robert Lawson
  • Roger Nelson McClure
  • Henry Morehead
  • Joseph Franklin Smith
  • J. O. Smith
  • Benjamin Tate
  • William Lee Tate
  • Garrett Ernest Taylor
  • Herbert Joseph Thomas
  • Andrew Wellington Todd
  • Albert Crawford Traynham
  • George Daniel Warriner
  • Eugene Hagy Wheeler
  • James Walter Woolwine
  • Ralph Travis Unterzuber
  • William Daniel Zydiak

References

  1. "UR Opens Conference Play Against Tech". The Richmond Collegian. University of Richmond. October 4, 1940. p. 4. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  2. "Colonial Echo 1941" (PDF). Colonial Echo. 1941. p. 198. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  3. "Georgetown vs. V.P.I. Official Program". VPI vs. Georgetown Football Program. 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  4. "VMI Runs Rough-Shod Over Tech 14 to 0". The V.M.I. Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 25, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  5. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1940–1941". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 15, 2016.
  6. "The Bugle 1941" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1941. p. 237. Retrieved 2016-01-15.


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