1937 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1937 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1937 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).

1937 VPI Gobblers football
Conference	Southern Conference
1937 record	5–5 (2–4 SoCon)
Head coach	Henry Redd (6th season)
Captain	Carol Leo Shockey
Home stadium	Miles Stadium

1937 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Maryland $	2	–	0	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
No. 19 North Carolina	4	–	0	–	1			7	–	1	–	1
Clemson	2	–	0	–	1			4	–	4	–	1
No. 20 Duke	5	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	1
VMI	4	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
NC State	4	–	2	–	1			5	–	3	–	1
South Carolina	2	–	2	–	1			5	–	6	–	1
Washington and Lee	2	–	3	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
The Citadel	2	–	3	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
Richmond	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	1
Furman	1	–	2	–	2			4	–	3	–	2
VPI	2	–	4	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
William & Mary	1	–	3	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
Wake Forest	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Davidson	1	–	6	–	0			2	–	8	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 18		Roanoke*	Miles Stadium Blacksburg, VA	W 27–7
September 25	8:00 p.m.[1]	vs. Duke	World War Memorial Stadium[1] Greensboro, NC	L 0–25	11,000[2]
October 2		at Tennessee*	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	L 0–27
October 9		vs. William & Mary	City Stadium Richmond, VA	L 0–12
October 16		at NC State	Riddick Stadium Raleigh, NC	L 7–13	7,000[3]
October 23		Washington and Lee	Miles Stadium Blacksburg, VA	W 19–7	5,000[4]
October 30		Hampden–Sydney*	Miles Stadium Blacksburg, VA	W 31–0
November 6		at Richmond	City Stadium Richmond, VA	L 7–12
November 13		at Virginia*	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA (rivalry)	W 14–7
November 25		vs. VMI	Roanoke, VA (rivalry)	W 12–6
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

• Source: HokieSports.com: 1937 Virginia Tech football schedule[5]

Players

The following players were members of the 1937 football team according to the roster published in the 1938 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[6]

VPI 1937 roster
	James Raymond Belcher Stephen B. Bogese Irving Ward Boswell Billy Boyd Graham S. Buchanan Archibald Branks Cameron Joe Carr Martin Ricks Cobb Marvin Andrew "Pete" Cregger Weldon Darnell James Blackwell Davis Philip Galliano DeMuro William Harper Devlin Lloyd Gibbs Doxey Samuel Bascom Dunn Mathew Leslie Ellison Leonard H. Futrell		James Anthony Gaugler John Alfred Hamer Melvin Henry Paul Higgins Wade Hampton Hitt Woodrow Kantner Ernest Stuart King Howard Dilworth Mast William McClelland Albert Sanford Miller Ruffner Page Murray Frank Lovitt Oliver Frank Marion Pierce David Marion Pitts Stanley Covington Powers Arthur Stephen Robison Brick Rothrock		Rochelle Rountree Daniel Green Shawhan Carol Leo Shockey (Capt.) Chilton Shorter Claude Simpson George Thorpe Leo Arthur Vecellio Edgar Waugh Boswell William Louis Willson Neil Saunders Wood Robert Woolwine Woodrum Woolwine George Yellott Worthington Thomas Wright Walter E. Zilahy

References

1. "Night Game to Usher in 1937 Grid Season For Blue Devil Eleven". The Duke Chronicle. Duke University. September 24, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
2. "Wademen Open Season With Win Over V.P.I." The Duke Chronicle. Duke University. September 28, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
3. "State Defeats V.P.I. Gobblers By 13–7 Count". Technician. North Carolina State University. October 22, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
4. "Big Blue Downed 19-7 At Tech Homecoming" (PDF). Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. October 26, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
5. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1937–1938". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 11, 2016.
6. "The Bugle 1938" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1938. p. 216. Retrieved 2016-01-11.