1940 VPI Gobblers football team

1940 Virginia Tech Hokies football
Conference	Southern Conference
1940 record	5–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach	Henry Redd (9th year)
Captain	James Emory Coleman John L. Henderson
Home stadium	Miles Stadium

1940 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Clemson $	4	–	0	–	0			6	–	2	–	1
#18 Duke	4	–	1	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
Wake Forest	4	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
William & Mary	2	–	1	–	1			6	–	2	–	1
North Carolina	3	–	2	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Richmond	3	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
VMI	3	–	2	–	1			7	–	2	–	1
Furman	4	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Washington and Lee	1	–	1	–	1			2	–	7	–	1
VPI	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
NC State	3	–	5	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Maryland	0	–	1	–	1			2	–	6	–	1
South Carolina	1	–	3	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Davidson	1	–	5	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
The Citadel	0	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21, 1940		Catawba*	Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA	W 34–12	–
September 28, 1940		at Marshall*	Fairfield Stadium • Huntington, WV	L 7–13	–
October 5, 1940		Richmond	Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA	L 7–13	–
October 12, 1940		vs. William & Mary	City Stadium • Richmond, VA	L 13–20	–
October 19, 1940		at Georgetown*	Griffith Stadium • Washington, DC	L 4–46	–
October 26, 1940		vs. Washington and Lee	Lynchburg, VA	W 21–0	–
November 2, 1940		vs. Virginia*	Norfolk, VA (Rivalry)	W 6–0	–
November 9, 1940		Furman	Miles Stadium • Blacksburg, VA	W 38–21	–
November 16, 1940		at Centre*	Farris Stadium • Danville, KY	W 10–6	–
November 21, 1940		vs. VMI	Maher Field[1] • Roanoke, VA (Rivalry)	L 0–14	21,000[1]
*Non-conference game.

• Source: HokieSports.com: 1940 Virginia Tech football schedule^[2]

Players

The following players were members of the 1940 football team according to the roster published in the 1941 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.^[3]

VPI 1940 roster
	Van Anderson Mason H. Blandford Alton Harwood Belcher Irvin Jean Chasen Gerald Harley Clark James Emory Coleman Robert Preston Graves John L. Henderson Rankin McGuire Hudson William Wilson James William B. Johnson Samuel Benjamin Judy Richard Davis Kern Robert Lawson Roger Nelson McClure		Henry Morehead Joseph Franklin Smith J. O. Smith Benjamin Tate William Lee Tate Garrett Ernest Taylor Herbert Joseph Thomas Andrew Wellington Todd Albert C. Traynham George Daniel Warriner Eugene H. Wheeler James Walter Woolwine Ralph Travis Unterzuber William Daniel Zydiak

References

1. "VMI Runs Rough-Shod Over Tech 14 to 0". The V.M.I. Cadet (Virginia Military Institute). November 25, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
2. Virginia Tech Football Past Schedules "1940–1941". Virginia Tech Sports Information Department, Hokiesports.com. Accessed January 15, 2016.
3. "The Bugle 1941" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1941. p. 237. Retrieved 2016-01-15.