1958 VPI Gobblers football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–4–1 (3–1 SoCon)
Head coach
Home stadiumMiles Stadium
1958 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
West Virginia $ 4 0 04 5 1
VPI 3 1 05 4 1
George Washington 3 2 03 5 0
VMI 2 2 16 2 2
Richmond 3 4 03 7 0
The Citadel 2 3 04 6 0
Davidson 2 3 05 4 0
Furman 1 2 02 7 0
William & Mary 1 4 12 6 1
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1958 NCAA University Division football season.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 20vs. West Texas State*W 28–127,500
September 27vs. Wake Forest*L 6–137,000
October 4William & MarydaggerW 27–1515,000
October 11vs. Virginia*
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 22–1326,000
October 18at Florida State*L 0–288,000[2]
October 25vs. West VirginiaL 20–2122,000
November 1at NC State*T 14–1413,000
November 8Richmond
  • Miles Stadium
  • Blacksburg, VA
W 27–236,000[3]
November 15at No. 1 Mississippi Southern*L 0–4111,000[4]
November 27vs. VMI
  • Victory Stadium
  • Roanoke, VA (rivalry)
W 21–1627,500
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from UPI Poll released prior to the game

[5]

Players

The following players were members of the 1958 football team according to the roster published in the 1959 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[5]

VPI 1958 roster
  • Clyde Barnette
  • Edwin M. Bartrug, Jr.
  • Tom Betz
  • Ed Brinkley
  • James Alexander Burks (Capt.)
  • Kenneth Arnold Byrd
  • William C. Cranwell
  • Carroll Dale
  • Bloice Davison
  • Jim Farr
  • Bob Harris
  • Pat Henry
  • Billy Holsclaw
  • William Duncan Holsclaw, Jr.
  • Ben Hunter
  • Harold Jones
  • Warren Maccaroni
  • Nicholas M. Mihalas
  • David Mitchell
  • Joe Moss
  • Thomas Ellis O'Brien
  • Don Oakes
  • Art Pruett
  • William Alger Pugh
  • Dick Ringer
  • Sam Shaffer
  • Dickie Snead
  • Charlie Speck
  • Chuck Stephens
  • Amos Leon Tomblin
  • Gil Turnage
  • Donald Ray Vaught
  • Bernie Vishneski
  • Johnny Watkins
  • Jay N. Whitesell
  • Arthur Allen Whittier
  • Mike Zeno

References

  1. "1958 Virginia Tech Hokies". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  2. "Tally-Ho 1959". Florida State Tally-Ho. 1959. p. 319. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  3. "Gobblers rally to turn back Spiders, 27–23". The Progress-Index. November 9, 1958. Retrieved November 6, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "VPI bows by 41–0". The Times Dispatch. November 16, 1958. Retrieved March 29, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 "The Bugle 1959" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1959. p. 216. Retrieved January 5, 2017.


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