1939 VPI Gobblers football team

1939 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1939 record 4–5–1 (1–4–1 SoCon)
Head coach Henry Redd (8th year)
Captain David Marion Pitts
Home stadium Miles Stadium
1939 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#8 Duke $ 5 – 0 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
#12 Clemson 4 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0
North Carolina 5 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 1
VMI 3 – 1 – 1     6 – 3 – 1
Richmond 3 – 1 – 1     7 – 1 – 2
Furman 3 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Wake Forest 3 – 3 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
William & Mary 1 – 1 – 1     6 – 2 – 1
NC State 2 – 4 – 0     2 – 8 – 0
Washington and Lee 1 – 2 – 0     3 – 4 – 1
South Carolina 1 – 3 – 0     3 – 6 – 1
VPI 1 – 4 – 1     4 – 5 – 1
Davidson 1 – 7 – 0     2 – 7 – 0
Maryland 0 – 1 – 0     2 – 7 – 0
The Citadel 0 – 4 – 0     3 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1939 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of four wins, five losses and one tie (4–5–1).

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 23, 1939 Randolph–Macon* Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 26–0   -
September 30, 1939 at Marshall* Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV L 0–20   -
October 7, 1939 vs. North Carolina Norfolk, VA L 6–13   -
October 14, 1939 vs. William & Mary City Stadium • Richmond, VA T 6–6   -
October 21, 1939 Centre*dagger Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 28–0   -
October 28, 1939 vs. Washington and Lee Municipal Stadium[1] • Lynchburg, VA L 0–6   12,000[1]
November 4, 1939 Furman Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 20–7   -
November 11, 1939 2:30pm[2] at Richmond City Stadium • Richmond, VA L 0–13   -
November 18, 1939 at Virginia* Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA (Rivalry) W 13–0   -
November 30, 1939 vs. VMI Roanoke, VA (Rivalry) L 7–19   20,000[3]
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

Players

The following players were members of the 1939 football team according to the roster published in the 1940 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]

VPI 1939 roster
Quarterbacks
  • Richard Davis Kern
  • Samuel B. Rose

Guards

  • Van Anderson
  • H. Woodrow Gosney
  • Robert Preston Graves
  • Joseph Franklin Smith
  • William Lee Tate
  • John Charles Wycoff

Tackles

  • James Emory Coleman
  • Frank DeBord
  • Benjamin McCurdy
  • David Marion Pitts (Capt.)
  • Andrew Wellington Todd
  • Ralph Travis Unterzuber

Centers

  • Graham S. Buchanan
  • Herbert Andrews Markle
  • Frank A. Streiff
  • William Daniel Zydiak
 Ends
  • Gerald Harley Clark
  • John L. Henderson
  • Robert Lawson
  • Daniel Green Shawhan
  • Louis Willson

Halfbacks

  • William Barnes
  • Philip Galliano DeMuro
  • Mathew Leslie Ellison
  • Willard Joseph Henderson
  • Sherwood Roudabush
  • Herbert Joseph Thomas
  • Albert C. Traynham
  • Garrett Ernest Taylor
  • James Walter Woolwine

Fullbacks

  • Irving Ward Boswell
  • Rankin McGuire Hudson
  • George Daniel Warriner

References

  1. 1 2 "Brilliant Defense Gives Generals 6-0 Victory Over VPI" (PDF). Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. October 31, 1939. p. 3. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Tech to Oppose Spiders at City Stadium". The Richmond Collegian. University of Richmond. November 10, 1939. p. 4. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The Bugle 1940" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1940. p. 237. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  4. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1939–1940". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 14, 2016.
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