1950 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record0–10 (0–8 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
Seasons
← 1949
1951 →
1950 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 18 Washington and Lee $ 6 – 0 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
No. 10 Clemson 3 – 0 – 1 9 – 0 – 1
VMI 5 – 1 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Wake Forest 6 – 1 – 1 6 – 1 – 2
Maryland 4 – 1 – 1 7 – 2 – 1
Duke 5 – 2 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
North Carolina 3 – 2 – 1 3 – 5 – 2
George Washington 4 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
NC State 4 – 4 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
William & Mary 3 – 3 – 0 4 – 7 – 0
The Citadel 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
South Carolina 2 – 4 – 1 3 – 4 – 2
Furman 2 – 4 – 0 2 – 8 – 1
West Virginia 1 – 3 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
Davidson 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Richmond 1 – 8 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
VPI 0 – 8 – 0 0 – 10 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1950 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Robert McNeish and finished with a record of zero wins and ten losses (0–10).

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Quantico Marines*
L 21–619,000[1]
October 7vs. Virginia*
L 6–4512,000[2]
October 13at George Washington
L 7–429,283[3]
October 21William & Marydagger
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
L 0–5411,000[4]
October 288:00 p.m.at NC State
L 6–34[5]
November 4at Washington and Lee
L 7–253,000[6]
November 11Richmond
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
L 12–327,000[7]
November 18vs. Duke
L 6–476,000[8]
November 23vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
L 0–2725,000[9]
December 2at Maryland
L 7–6311,773[10]

Roster

The following players were members of the 1950 football team according to the roster published in the 1951 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[11]

VPI 1950 roster
  • Dean Gerrard Boyle
  • Gene Burnette
  • John Campbell
  • Ronald Herman Casto
  • Joseph Litton Church
  • Howard Cowan
  • Bruce Mills "Bud" Fisher
  • Thomas Malcolm Fisher
  • Eustace Frederick
  • Everett Grant Germain
  • Richard "Bob" Gilley
  • Richard D. Goodman
  • Lawrence Shultz Hansrote
  • Frank Hargrove
  • Charles Donald Herb
  • Dick Hiler
  • Francis Hobbs
  • Andy Michael Hodgson
  • W. J. "Pat" Hoggard
  • Richard Earle Huff
  • Shakeep Kassem
  • Eugene "Bunky" Keeton
  • Charles Edward Kernan
  • Joseph Edward Kosco
  • Edward Kraynak
  • Richard Kuhn
  • Frank Ronald Kwiatkowski
  • Timothy Lawler
  • Casimir Jerome "Ki" Luczak
  • Ronald Garland Miller
  • Minor
  • Murie
  • Roger Rowland Neel
  • Dick Newcomb
  • Madison "Buzz" Nutter
  • Beverley Parrish
  • Douglas Cooper Petty
  • Jay B. Ratliff
  • Charles Ronald Raugh
  • Roy Carrington Robinette
  • Richard Phillips Rosenbaum
  • Michael Rusinko
  • William Stark
  • John Robert Stortz
  • Robert James Wachter
  • Norman Chad White
  • Sterling Lagrand Wingo

References

  1. ^ "LeBaron shines in 61 to 21 win". The Roanoke Times. October 1, 1950. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Virginia backs run wild in easy win over Virginia Tech". The Portsmouth Star. October 8, 1950. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Colonials rout Gobblers, 42–7". Richmond Times-Dispatch. October 14, 1950. Retrieved February 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Indians Win Tech Homecoming Tilt 54–0, Lewis, Magdziak Lead Ground, Air Attack" (PDF). The Flat Hat. College of William & Mary. October 24, 1950. p. 5. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  5. ^ "State-VPI". The Technician. North Carolina State University. October 27, 1950. p. 10. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  6. ^ Lonergan, Ted (November 7, 1950). "Generals Capture Muddy Battle Against Va. Tech by 25-7 Score" (PDF). The Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. p. 3. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  7. ^ "Spiders click in air to rout Gobblers". Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. November 12, 1950. Retrieved November 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Duke hands V.P.I. 8th loss of season, 47–6, here". Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. November 19, 1950. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Big Red Trounces Gobblers 27–0". The V.M.I. Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 27, 1950. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  10. ^ "The Terrapin 1950". The Terrapin. 1950. p. 289. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  11. ^ "The Bugle 1951" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1951. Retrieved June 28, 2017.


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