American college football season
The 1949 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1949 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Robert McNeish and finished with a record of one win, seven losses and two ties (1–7–2).
Roster
The following players were members of the 1949 football team according to the roster published in the 1950 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[3]
VPI 1949 roster
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- Victor Anderson
- Baucom
- Ralph Coe Beard
- Bill Bennett
- Dean Gerrard Boyle
- Robert Dean Carroll
- Ronald Herman Casto
- Coy Lenard Chambers
- Joseph Litton Church
- Pete "Chip" Collum
- George Marriott Davis, Jr.
- Hubert Wallace Dutton
- Bruce Mills "Bud" Fisher
- Thomas Malcolm Fisher
- James Forrest
- Eustace Frederick
- Donald Funk
- Hubert John Gerkin
- Richard "Bob" Gilley
- Richard D. Goodman
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- Lawrence Shultz Hansrote
- Frank Hargrove
- William Hughes Hegamyer
- Bobby Hess
- Andre Hodgson
- Oren Edward Hopkins
- Tom Howard
- Richard Earle Huff
- Jack Ross Ittner
- Charles Edward Kernan
- Jimmy Kitts
- Richard Kuhn
- Timothy Lawler
- Bill Loomis
- Casimir Jerome "Ki" Luczak
- Kerry Jennings McBroom
- Hamilton Otey Meriwether
- Ronald Garland Miller
- Roger Rowland Neel
- Douglas Cooper Petty
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- W. H. Powell
- Jay B. Ratliff
- Charles Ronald Raugh
- Roy Carrington Robinette
- Pete Smith
- Warren William Squires
- John Robert Stortz
- C. William Stultz
- Taylor
- Franklin Ray Taylor
- David Lacy Thomas
- Charles Thrush
- Robert James Wachter
- Robert Franklin Webb
- Donald Lindbergh Whiteman
- Ralph Wiesting
- Sterling Lagrand Wingo
- Dewey Benton Woolwine
- Forrest Bayard "Frank" Yarborough
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