The 1947 VPI Gobblers football team was an American football that represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the Southern Conference during the 1947 college football season. In its third season under head coach Jimmy Kitts, the team compiled a 4–5 record (4–3 against conference opponents), finished eighth in the Southern Conference, and as outscored by a total of 191 to 162.
VPI was ranked at No. 88 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.
The team played its home games at Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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1948 NFL draftees One VPI player was selected in the 1948 NFL draft, as follows:
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Roster The following players were members of the 1947 football team according to the roster published in the 1948 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.
VPI 1947 roster Jim Adams Victor Anderson Frank H. Ballard Billy Shelby Barbour (Capt.) William Ernest Baucom Ralph Coe Beard Raymond Rucker Beasley Floyd Samuel Bowles Robert LeRoy Browder Maynard Leon David Bruce Thomas Craig Burns Donald Butkovsky Coy Lenard Chambers Joseph Litton Church Pete "Chip" Collum Jack Cooke Mervin K. Cox Billy Patrick DeNardo Richard T. DeShazo William Donovan Hubert Wallace Dutton Bruce Mills "Bud" Fisher Charles Mugler Forbes Robert Fracker Nelson Fuller John E. "Jack" Gallagher William Hughes Hegamyer Robert Hess Joseph William Hoffmann Jr. Oren Edward Hopkins Jack Ross Ittner Cary Kenyon Johnson Robert Edward Johnson Ted James Johnson Howard Jones Jimmy Kitts John Harry Kroehling Anthony Thomas Kujawa Carl Leonard John James Maskas J. Cordell McCraw Augustus Paul Mengulas Hamilton Otey Meriwether Ronald Garland Miller Elmo Natali Ross Moore Orr Horace Lee Pearce Erving Hascall Rand Frank Ransome Bernard Sizemore Bobby Smith (Capt.) G. L. "Pete" Smith Warren William Squires John Robert Stortz Bob Taylor Franklin Ray Taylor David Lacy Thomas W. Harry Walton Robert Franklin Webb Richard White Donald Lindbergh Whiteman William Elmer Wilson Sterling Lagrand Wingo Gerhard Charles Zekert Paul Ethan "Zig" Zender
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