1928 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1928 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1928 Southern Conference football season. The team was led by their head coach Andy Gustafson and finished with a record of seven wins and two losses (7–2). This was the senior season for the "Pony Express" backfield which included Frank Peake, Herbert McEver, Scotty MacArthur, and Tommy Tomko.[1]

1928 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1928 record7–2 (4–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainAlbert Ewell Bailey
Lloyd Broderick Nutter
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
1928 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Georgia Tech $ 7 0 010 0 0
Tennessee 6 0 19 0 1
Florida 6 1 08 1 0
VPI 4 1 07 2 0
Alabama 6 2 06 3 0
LSU 3 1 16 2 1
Clemson 4 2 08 3 0
Vanderbilt 4 2 08 2 0
Tulane 3 3 16 3 1
Ole Miss 3 3 05 4 0
North Carolina 2 2 25 3 2
Kentucky 2 2 14 3 1
South Carolina 2 2 16 2 2
Maryland 2 3 16 3 1
VMI 2 3 15 3 2
Georgia 2 4 04 5 0
NC State 1 3 14 5 1
Mississippi A&M 1 4 02 4 2
Virginia 1 6 02 6 1
Washington and Lee 1 6 02 8 0
Sewanee 0 5 02 7 0
Auburn 0 7 01 8 0
  • $ Conference champion

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Roanoke*W 34–7
October 6Hampden–Sydney*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 32–7
October 13at Colgate*
L 14-35[2]
October 20at North CarolinaW 16-14[3]
October 27King*
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 54–0
November 32:30 p.m.vs. Maryland
W 9–6[4][5]
November 10Virginia
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA (rivalry)
W 20–07,000[6]
November 17at Washington and Lee
W 13–7
November 29vs. VMI
L 6-1620,000[7]

Players

The following players were members of the 1928 football team according to the roster published in the 1929 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[8]

VPI 1928 roster
  • Roger Lee Amole
  • Albert Ewell Bailey (Capt.)
  • Joseph Murray Brown
  • John Edward Gray
  • John Buckner Green
  • Henry Virgil "Bird" Hooper
  • Philip Smith Hotchkiss
  • William Coles Hudgins
  • Louis Dexter Hubbard
  • Warner Brooke Jones
  • John Ote Looney
  • Scotty MacArthur
  • Arthur Randolph Mahaney
  • Cloy Mattox
  • Lloyd Broderick Nutter (Capt.)
  • Milton Anthony Owens
  • Walter Wilson Pattie
  • Frank Peake
  • Nelson Osborn Price
  • Marcus Oliver Ritter
  • Eugene Butler Rule
  • Harry Bingham Spear
  • Philip Hitchborn Spear
  • Cyril Method "Tommy" Tomko

References

  1. "From The Beginning ... To The Beamer Era".
  2. "Maroon Eleven Turns Back V.P.I., 35–14, To Gain Revenge For Last Year's Defeat". Colgate Maroon. Colgate University. October 17, 1928. p. 1. Archived from the original on February 5, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  3. "Tar Heel Line Crumples as Gobblers Win by 16-14 Score". The Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 30, 1928. p. 3. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  4. "Placement Kick Gives Gobblers Win at Norfolk". The Times Dispatch. November 4, 1928. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Antique VPI football program 1928 vs MD".
  6. "V.P.I. Ace Makes Seventy Yard Run". The Daily Progress. University of Virginia. November 12, 1928. p. 6. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  7. "V.M.I. Triumphs Over V.P.I." The Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. December 3, 1928. p. 1. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  8. "The Bugle 1929" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1929. p. 313. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
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