1932 VPI Gobblers football team

1932 VPI Gobblers football
Conference Southern Conference
1932 record 8–1 (6–1 SoCon)
Head coach Henry Redd (1st season)
Captain Bill Grinus
Home stadium Miles Stadium
1932 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Tennessee + 7 – 0 – 1     9 – 0 – 1
Auburn + 6 – 0 – 1     9 – 0 – 1
LSU + 4 – 0 – 0     6 – 3 – 1
VPI 6 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
Vanderbilt 4 – 1 – 2     6 – 1 – 2
NC State 3 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 2
Alabama 5 – 2 – 0     8 – 2 – 0
Tulane 5 – 2 – 1     6 – 2 – 1
Duke 5 – 3 – 0     7 – 3 – 0
Georgia Tech 4 – 4 – 1     4 – 5 – 1
South Carolina 2 – 2 – 2     5 – 4 – 2
Kentucky 4 – 5 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Virginia 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Ole Miss 2 – 3 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
Georgia 2 – 4 – 2     2 – 5 – 2
Maryland 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
North Carolina 2 – 5 – 1     3 – 5 – 2
VMI 1 – 4 – 0     2 – 8 – 0
Washington and Lee 1 – 4 – 0     1 – 9 – 0
Florida 1 – 6 – 0     3 – 6 – 0
Clemson 0 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 1
Mississippi State 0 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 0
Sewanee 0 – 6 – 0     2 – 7 – 1
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1932 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1932 Southern Conference football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of eight wins and one loss (8–1).

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 24, 1932 Roanoke* Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 32–7   -
October 1, 1932 at Georgia Sanford Stadium • Athens, GA W 7–6   -
October 8, 1932 at Maryland Old Byrd Stadium • College Park, MD W 23–0   -
October 15, 1932 vs. William & Mary* City Stadium • Richmond, VA W 7–0   17,000[1]
October 22, 1932 Kentucky Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA W 7–0   -
October 29, 1932 at Washington and Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, VA W 32–6   4,000[2]
November 5, 1932 at Alabama Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL L 6–9   11,000[3]
November 12, 1932 Virginia Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA (Rivalry) W 13–0   3,000[4]
November 24, 1932 vs. VMI Maher Field[5] • Roanoke, VA (Rivalry) W 26–0   12,000[5]
*Non-conference game.

Players

The following players were members of the 1932 football team according to the roster published in the 1933 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.[7]

VPI 1932 roster
  • Benny Botnick
  • William Earle Betts
  • Alfred Layden Casey
  • James Henry Copenhaver
  • Edward Ralph English
  • Bill Grinus (Capt.)
  • Charles Alexander "Heinie" Groth
  • Earl Jenis Hall
  • Eugene Goliday Hite
  • Garland Woodrow Hoenstine
  • William Duncan Holsclaw
  • Richard Huffman
  • Wiley Leroy Jennings
  • John A. McIntre
  • Ray Mills
  • Charles Emmett Ashburn Morgan
  • John Marshall Murphy
  • Richard Whitmore Neale
  • Warren "Red" Negri
  • Benny Palmer
  • William Breckenridge Porterfield
  • Carl Francis Robison
  • Alfred Elsworth Seaman
  • George Maxie Smith
  • David Thomas
  • Paul Kenneth Wolfe

Season summary

Georgia

VPI Captain Bill Grinus blocked the tying extra point in the upset over Georgia.[8]

at Alabama

VPI at Alabama
1 234Total
VPI 0 600 6
• Alabama 0 090 9

Against the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama, VPI lost 6-9 in front 11,000 spectators at Denny Stadium, which was the second largest crowd to ever visit the stadium at the time.[3] VPI came into the game undefeated (6-0), while Alabama was 5-1. After a scoreless first quarter, the Gobblers took a 6–0 lead in the second after Ray Mills threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Al Casey.[3] In the third, the score was cut to 6–2 after a bad snap to Casey from the center resulted in a safety.[3] Later in the quarter Alabama took a 9–6 lead that it held to the end of the game when halfback Dixie Howell scored a touchdown on a nine-yard run.[3]

Alabama's assistant coach was former VPI player Hank Crisp.

References

  1. ↑ "Indians Defeated By Gobblers, 7–0" (PDF). The Flat Hat. College of William & Mary. October 18, 1932. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Tough Gobblers Down Generals In Torrid Fray" (PDF). The Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. November 1, 1932. p. 1. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Crimson tide regains its crest to beat Gobblers, 9 to 6". The Tuscaloosa News. Google News Archives. November 6, 1932. p. 10. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Virginia Gives Gobblers Scrap". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Google News Archives. November 12, 1932. p. 18. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Gobblers Prove Too Powerful For Keydets". The Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 28, 1932. p. 1. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1932–1933". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ "The Bugle 1933" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1933. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  8. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=RlD17HgJ6eYC&pg=PT20&lpg=PT20
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