1963 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1963 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.[1]

1963 VPI Gobblers football
SoCon champion
ConferenceSouthern Conference
1963 record8–2 (5–0 SoCon)
Head coach
1963 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
VPI $ 5 –0 –08 –2 –0
West Virginia 3 –1 –04 –6 –0
VMI 3 –1 –23 –5 –2
Furman 3 –2 –07 –3 –0
William & Mary 4 –4 –04 –6 –0
Richmond 2 –2 –13 –6 –1
The Citadel 2 –4 –04 –6 –0
George Washington 1 –5 –02 –7 –0
Davidson 0 –4 –11 –5 –2
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21at Kentucky*
L 14–33
September 28at Wake Forest*
W 27–07,000
October 5vs. Virginia*
W 10–0
October 11at George Washington
W 22–87,000[2]
October 19William & Mary
W 28–13
October 26at Florida State*
W 31–2316,500
November 22:00 p.m.at Richmond
W 14–1318,000
November 9at NC State*
L 7–13
November 16at West Virginia
W 28–3
November 28vs. VMI
W 35–2027,000[3]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming

Players

The following players were members of the 1963 football team according to the roster published in the 1964 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[4]

VPI 1963 roster
  • Jake Adams
  • Kyle Marlon Albright
  • William McLemore Babb, Jr.
  • Darryl Bailey
  • Joe Bloomer
  • Gene Breen
  • Mike Cahill
  • Alex Camaioni
  • Phillip W. Cary
  • Robert Carr Churchill
  • Paul Frederick Cobb
  • Dickie Cranwell
  • Bill Edwards
  • Lacy Lee Edwards, Jr.
  • Ronald Wayne Frank
  • David Green
  • Walter Newton Green, Jr.
  • Les Hanly
  • Thomas Morgan Hawkins
  • Wayne Hewitt
  • James Venable Hickam
  • Tom Hidell
  • Wynston Holbrook
  • Michael Joseph Hvozdovic
  • Ed Jeffrey
  • Basil G. Jennings
  • Lynn Jones
  • Bill Kegley
  • Dickie Kelly
  • Victor "Vic" William Kreiter, Jr.
  • Harry Leland
  • Ronnie Lindon
  • Tommy Marvin
  • Claude Earl Messamore, Jr.
  • Bobby Owens
  • Darrell Page
  • Larry Philpot
  • John Raible
  • Douglas Bradley Robbins
  • Burt Mack Rodgers
  • Fred Michael Saunders
  • Bob Schweickert
  • John Sheehy
  • John George Shipley
  • James Simmons
  • Douglas Lee Ulery
  • Silas Alexander "Sonny" Utz, III
  • Joseph Gilleece "Skip" Vance
  • Thomas Merritt Walker
  • K. T. "Buddy" Weihe
  • Ken Whitley

References
  1. "1963 Virginia Tech Hokies Schedule and Results".
  2. "Schweickert-led Gobblers topple G-W by 22–8 score". Johnson City Press. October 12, 1963. Retrieved February 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Gobblers capture first Southern loop crown". The Bristol Herald Courier. November 29, 1963. Retrieved January 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "The Bugle 1964" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1964. p. 294. Retrieved 2017-12-04.


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