1968 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1968 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1968 college football season. They finished the season with a 7–4 record.[1]

1968 VPI Gobblers football
Liberty Bowl, L 17–34 vs. Ole Miss
ConferenceIndependent
1968 record7–4
Head coachJerry Claiborne (8th season)
Home stadiumLane Stadium
1968 NCAA University Division independents football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 2 Penn State      11 0 0
Rutgers      8 2 0
West Texas State      8 2 0
No. 5 Notre Dame      7 2 1
Florida State      8 3 0
Air Force      7 3 0
Army      7 3 0
Buffalo      7 3 0
No. 18 Houston      6 2 2
Utah State      7 3 0
Boston College      7 3 0
West Virginia      7 3 0
VPI      7 4 0
Syracuse      6 4 0
Villanova      6 4 0
Xavier      6 4 0
Colgate      5 5 0
Dayton      5 5 0
Miami (FL)      5 5 0
New Mexico State      5 5 0
Georgia Tech      4 6 0
Southern Miss      4 6 0
Holy Cross      3 6 1
San Jose State      3 7 0
Navy      2 8 0
Tulane      2 8 0
Pittsburgh      1 9 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21at No. 7 AlabamaL 7–1463,759
September 28at William & MaryW 12–0
October 5Kansas StateL 19–3419,000
October 12Wake Forest
  • Lane Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 7–6
October 18at No. 13 Miami (FL)L 8–13
October 26West Virginia
  • Lane Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA (rivalry)
W 27–1233,000
November 2at No. 18 Florida StateW 40–2231,342
November 9Richmond
  • Lane Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 31–18
November 16at South CarolinaW 17–640,137
November 28vs. VMIW 55–6
December 14vs. Ole MissL 17–3446,206
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Players

The following players were members of the 1968 football team according to the roster published in the 1969 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[2]

VPI 1968 roster
  • Art Aguilar
  • David Bailey
  • Frank Beamer
  • David Binko
  • Preston Blackburn
  • Steve Bocko
  • William G. "Jerry" Boykin
  • Jud Brownell
  • James Edward "Eddie" Carter
  • Dennis Cogan
  • Chris Frank Collis
  • George Constantinides
  • Donald Dewitt Cooke
  • Larry Creekmore
  • J. Dee Crigger
  • Daniel Cupp
  • Ron Davidson
  • Peter Francis Dawyot
  • Nick DelViscio
  • Kenneth Wayne Edwards
  • Doug Gainous
  • Jerry Green
  • George Butch Hall
  • Waddey Harvey
  • Bert Henderson
  • D. Hickman
  • Wayne Humphries
  • Hank Immel
  • John Ivanac
  • Al Kincaid
  • Larry Kushner
  • Dickie Longerbeam
  • Leonard Angelo Luongo
  • T. MacDonald
  • John Lawrence Maxwell
  • Tom Mikulski
  • Frederick Marshall Mooney
  • Thomas Irwin Parks
  • James Anthony Pigninelli
  • Rick Piland
  • Paul Ripley
  • Gil Schwabe
  • Jack Simcsak
  • Bill Skinner
  • Bobby Slaughter
  • Leonard James Smith
  • Terry Smoot
  • L. Wayne Stonesifer
  • Larry Duke Strager
  • Tom Swords
  • Perry Tiberio
  • John Randolph Treadwell
  • Joe Tucker
  • Danny Waller
  • Mike Widger
  • S. Womack
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References

  1. "1968 Virginia Tech Hokies". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  2. "The Bugle 1969". Virginia Tech Bugle. 1969. p. 88. Retrieved 2019-08-25.


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