American college football season
The 1959 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute or VPI (now known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University or Virginia Tech) as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Frank Moseley the Gobblers compiled an overall record of 6–4 with a mark of 3–1 in conference play, and finished third in the SoCon. VPI played home games at Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.[1]
Roster
The following players were members of the 1959 football team according to the roster published in the 1960 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[14]
VPI 1959 roster
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- Ray Barile
- Clyde Barnette
- Edwin M. Bartrug, Jr.
- Andy Beckstoffer
- Tom Betz
- Charles Philip Blankenship
- Herb Bowling
- Kenneth Arnold Byrd
- Robert M. Crabtree
- Carroll Dale (Capt.)
- Bloice Davison
- Frank H. Eastman
- John Farmer
- Jim Farr
- David W. Gillespie
- Bob Harris
- Walter Milton Harris
- William O. Heintz
- Pat Henry
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- Gary Hilton
- Charles F. Hines
- Robert Gerald Holbrook
- Leo Howard
- Ben Hunter
- Don Jensen
- Harold Jones
- Mac Kincaid
- Warren Maccaroni
- Ray Massie
- William Roderick McGinnis
- David Mitchell
- Warren Morris
- Joe Moss
- Thomas Ellis O'Brien
- Don Oakes
- Jim Paine
- Noah Redding "Buddy" Perry
- Charles Warren Price, Jr.
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- Art Pruett
- William Alger Pugh
- Elmer Reed
- Bill Robertson
- Sam Shaffer
- Dickie Snead
- Charlie Speck
- Chuck Stephens
- Terry L. Strock
- Rick Tolley
- Amos Leon Tomblin
- Donald Ray Vaught
- Bernie Vishneski
- Harold Ward
- Johnny Watkins
- Arthur Allen Whittier
- Donald E. Womeldorph
- Mike Zeno
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