1964 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1964 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1964 college football season.[1]

1964 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1964 record6–4 (3–1 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
1964 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
West Virginia $  5 –0     7 –4  
VPI  3 –1     6 –4  
George Washington  3 –2     5 –4  
The Citadel  4 –3     4 –6  
William & Mary  4 –3     4 –6  
Richmond  2 –4     3 –7  
Davidson  1 –3     3 –6  
Furman  1 –4     3 –7  
VMI  1 –4     1 –9  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19at Tampa*
W 18–147,500
September 26vs. Wake Forest*
L 21–38
October 3at Virginia*
L 17–20
October 10George Washington
W 33–011,000
October 17West Virginia
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA (rivalry)
L 10–23
October 24No. 10 Florida State*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 20–1122,000[2]
October 31at William & Mary
W 27–2010,000
November 7NC State*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 28–19
November 14at Syracuse*
L 15–2024,000[3]
November 26vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 35–13
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Players

The following players were members of the 1964 football team according to the roster published in the 1965 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[4]

VPI 1964 roster
  • Dick Anderson
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Jay Barfield
  • Judson Bigelow
  • Joe Bloomer
  • Andy Bowling
  • Donnie Bruce
  • Eddie Bulheller
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • Paul Frederick Cobb
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Bill Edwards
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Jack Evan
  • David Lowell Farmer
  • Rusty Fife
  • Tommy Francisco
  • Sal Garcia
  • Bill Gordon
  • Bob Griffith
  • Tommy Groom
  • Les Hanly
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • Tom Hidell
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Ed Jeffrey
  • Basil G. Jennings
  • Erick Johnson
  • Lynn Jones
  • Bill Kegley
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Ronnie Lindon
  • Tommy Marvin
  • Ronald Lee McGuigan
  • Claude Earl Messamore, Jr.
  • Milton E. Miller
  • Richard Mollo
  • Bobby Owens
  • Darrell Page
  • Mike Price
  • John Raible
  • James John Reba
  • Fred Michael Saunders
  • Bob Schweickert
  • John Sheehy
  • John George Shipley
  • James Simmons
  • Tommy Stafford
  • Douglas Lee Ulery
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Raleigh Voight
  • Jack Wenderoch
  • Ken Whitley
  • Sands Woody

References
  1. "1964 Virginia Tech Hokies". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  2. "Tribe Suffers First Defeat: Shweickert Gobbles Up Seminoles 20-11". Tallahassee Democrat. October 25, 1964. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Syracuse Students Accuse VPI Of Segregation Usage". Daily Press. Newport News, Virginia. AP. 30 October 1964. p. 7. Retrieved 20 December 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
  4. "The Bugle 1965" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1965. p. 348. Retrieved 2017-12-05.


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