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1915 VPI Gobblers football team

American college football season

The 1915 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1915 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Branch Bocock and finished with a record of four wins and four losses (4–4).

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1915 VPI Gobblers football
Conference	South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	4–4 (0–1 SAIAA)
Head coach	Branch Bocock (6th season)
Captain	Vincent Bargmant Dixon
Home stadium	Miles Field
Seasons ← 1914 1916 →

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1915 South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Virginia +	2	–	0	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
Washington and Lee +	2	–	0	–	0	6	–	1	–	1
Georgetown +	2	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Catholic University	1	–	0	–	0	5	–	2	–	0
Johns Hopkins	1	–	0	–	0	1	–	0	–	0
Richmond	0	–	1	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
VPI	0	–	1	–	0	4	–	4	–	0
North Carolina A&M	0	–	2	–	0	3	–	3	–	1
North Carolina	0	–	2	–	0	4	–	3	–	1

+ – Conference co-champions

Schedule

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25		Roanoke*	Miles Field Blacksburg, VA	W 26–0		^[1]^[2]
October 2		Randolph–Macon*	Miles Field Blacksburg, VA	W 20–3		^[3]
October 9		Hampden–Sydney*	Miles Field Blacksburg, VA	W 19–0		^[4]
October 16		vs. Washington and Lee	Fair Grounds Roanoke, VA	L 0–13	4,000	^[5]^[6]^[7]
October 23		at Navy*	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–20		^[8]^[9]
October 30		at Cornell*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 0–45		^[10]^[11]^[12]
November 13		at West Virginia*	Morgantown, WV (rivalry)	L 0–19		^[13]^[14]
November 25	2:30 p.m.	vs. VMI*	Fair Grounds Roanoke, VA (rivalry)	W 27–9		^[15]^[16]^[17]
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

Game summaries

Roanoke

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Roanoke	3	0	0	0	3
• VPI	7	7	6	6	26

Date: September 25
Location: Miles Field
Blacksburg, VA
Referee: Harlan Sanborn

The starting lineup for VPI was: Cottrell (left end), Parrish (left tackle), A. B. Moore (left guard), Henderson (center), Treakle (right guard), Caffee (right tackle), A. P. Moore (right end), Terry (quarterback), Dixon (left halfback), Denny (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Benedict, Bopp, Clemmer, F. A. Engleby, J. T. Engleby, Funkhouser, Graves, Gregory, Hall, Howell, Huddle and Logan.

Randolph–Macon

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	1	2	3	4	Total
RM	3	0	0	0	3
• VPI	0	7	7	6	20

Date: October 2
Location: Miles Field
Blacksburg, VA
Referee: Harlan Sanborn

The starting lineup for VPI was: Gregory (left end), Parrish (left tackle), A. B. Moore (left guard), Henderson (center), Benedict (right guard), Hall (right tackle), Huddle (right end), Terry (quarterback), Funkhouser (left halfback), Denny (right halfback), Treakle (fullback).
The substitutes were: Dixon, J. T. Engleby, Graves, A. P. Moore, Powell and Redd.

Hampden–Sydney

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	1	2	3	4	Total
HS	0	0	0	0	0
• VPI	0	0	19	0	19

Date: October 9
Location: Miles Field
Blacksburg, VA
Referee: Harlan Sanborn

The starting lineup for VPI was: Huddle (left end), Parrish (left tackle), A. B. Moore (left guard), Henderson (center), Bopp (right guard), Caffee (right tackle), A. P. Moore (right end), Funkhouser (quarterback), Denny (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Treakle (fullback).
The substitutes were: Clemmer, Cottrell, Dixon, Engleby, Gregory, Hall, Harvey, Logan, Redd and Terry.

Washington and Lee

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	1	2	3	4	Total
• W&L	7	0	0	6	13
VPI	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 16
Location: Roanoke, VA
Game attendance: 4,000
Referee: Paul Magoffin

The starting lineup for VPI was: Cottrell (left end), Bopp (left tackle), A. B. Moore (left guard), Henderson (center), Benedict (right guard), Caffee (right tackle), A. P. Moore (right end), Dixon (quarterback), Funkhouser (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Denny, Gregory, Hall, Huddle, Parrish and Treakle.

Navy

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	1	2	3	4	Total
VPI	0	0	0	0	0
• Navy	0	6	13	1	20

Date: October 23
Location: Worden Field
Annapolis, MD
Referee: Tom Thorp

The starting lineup for VPI was: Gregory (left end), Benedict (left tackle), A. B. Moore (left guard), Henderson (center), Parrish (right guard), Caffee (right tackle), Hall (right end), Dixon (quarterback), Funkhouser (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Denny and Huddle.

Cornell

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	1	2	3	4	Total
VPI	0	0	0	0	0
• Cornell	14	13	12	6	45

Date: October 30
Location: Schoellkopf Field
Ithaca, NY
Referee: Gillender
(Pennsylvania)

The starting lineup for VPI was: Cottrell (left end), Benedict (left tackle), Bopp (left guard), A. B. Moore (center), Treakle (right guard), Parrish (right tackle), Hall (right end), Terry (quarterback), Engleby (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Dixon, Gray, Gregory, Henderson, Lybrook and A. P. Moore.

Cancelled Game with King College

VPI was scheduled to play King College on November 6 in Blacksburg, Virginia.^[18]

West Virginia

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	1	2	Total
VPI	0	0	0
• WVU	19	0	19

Date: November 13
Location: Morgantown, WV
Referee: Gass (Lehigh)

The starting lineup for VPI was: Huddle (left end), Benedict (left tackle), A. P. Moore (left guard), A. B. Moore (center), Bopp (right guard), Parrish (right tackle), Hall (right end), Terry (quarterback), Dixon (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Cottrell, Engleby and Henderson.

VMI

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	1	2	3	4	Total
VMI	0	0	3	6	9
• VPI	10	10	0	7	27

Date: November 25
Location: Fair Grounds
Roanoke, VA
Game start: 2:30 p.m.
Referee: Langford
(Trinity)

The starting lineup for VPI was: Gregory (left end), Benedict (left tackle), A. P. Moore (left guard), A. B. Moore (center), Bopp (right guard), Parrish (right tackle), Gaines (right end), Funkhouser (quarterback), Huddle (left halfback), Powell (right halfback), Redd (fullback).
The substitutes were: Caffee, Dixon, Engleby, Hall and Henderson.

Players

The following players were members of the 1915 football team according to the roster published in the 1916 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.^[19]

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VPI 1915 roster

Quarterbacks

Joseph Thomas Engleby
Edward Kramer Funkhouser
Arthur Palfrey Terry

Guards

Arthur Penick Moore
George Ellsworth Treakle

Tackles

Loyal Clark Benedict
Harry Joe Bopp
John Staub Caffee
Harry Temple Parrish

Centers

Robert Ashby Henderson
Arthur Blakie Moore

Ends

Benjamin Cottrell
James Atkins Gregory
Lyle George Hall

Halfbacks

Vincent Bargmant Dixon (Capt.)
Robert Evans Denny
David Nicholas Huddle
James Franklin Powell

Fullback

Henry Redd

Substitutes

Thomas Franklin Clemmer
Allen Ernest Cloyd
Frederick Dean
Frank Allison Engleby
Leonard Myrton Gaines
Turner Ashby Graves
Francis Alexander Gray
Richard Harvey
Percy Stuart Hayden
Russell Minor Howell
Charles Lewter Logan
William Murry Lybrook
Harry Douglas Roden
Henry Luck Rosenbaum
John Lee Thompson
Walter Lee Turner
Charles Evans Whitmore
W. R. Williams

Coaching and training staff

Head coach: Branch Bocock
Assistant coach: Donald Munsick
Manager: W. L. Cogbill
Assistant managers
- Walton Ellingsworth
- J. H. East
- P. S. Campbell

References

[1]
"Techs Win From Roanoke". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. September 26, 1915. p. 26. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
[2]
"Roanoke College Defeated By V.P.I." The World News. Library of Virginia. September 27, 1915. p. 7. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
[3]
"Jackets Get Field Goal". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. October 3, 1915. p. 29. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
[4]
"V.P.I. Wins Dull Game". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. October 10, 1915. p. 27. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
[5]
"Generals Defeat Techs 13 To 0" (PDF). Ring-tum Phi. Washington and Lee University. October 19, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
[6]
"Cy Young Badly Injured". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. October 17, 1915. p. 23. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
[7]
"Washington & Lee Swamped V.P.I. In Roanoke". The Lexington Gazette. Library of Virginia. October 20, 1915. p. 5. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
[8]
"The 20-0 Victory of Middies Vs. Polys". Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette. Library of Congress. October 25, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
[9]
"Techs Lose To Middies". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. October 24, 1915. p. 25. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
[10]
"Cornell Finds Weak Opposition In Virginia Poly". New-York Tribune. Library of Congress. October 31, 1915. p. 15. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
[11]
"New Forward Pass Sprung By Cornell". The Sun. Library of Congress. October 31, 1915. p. 13. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
[12]
"Techs Lose To Cornell". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. October 31, 1915. p. 26. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
[13]
"Mountaineers Win From Virginia Team". The Sunday Telegram. Library of Congress. November 14, 1915. p. 11. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
[14]
"Another Nice Scalp For W.V.U. Team". The West Virginian. Library of Congress. November 15, 1915. p. 8. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
[15]
"Tech Outplays V.M.I." Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. November 26, 1915. p. 8. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
[16]
"V.P.I. Piles Up Big Score On V.M.I. In Annual Game Here". The World News. Library of Virginia. November 26, 1915. p. 7. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
[17]
"V.M.I. Loses Thanksgiving Game". The Cadet. Virginia Military Institute. November 29, 1915. p. 6. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
[18]
"V.P.I. Schedule For Season Is Announced". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Congress. August 22, 1915. p. 13. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
[19]
"The Bugle 1916" (PDF). Virginia Tech Bugle. 1916. p. 192. Retrieved February 3, 2022.

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