The 1957 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute or VPI (now known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University or Virginia Tech) as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1957 college football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Frank Moseley the Gobblers compiled an overall record of 4–6 with a mark of 1–3 in conference play, and finished eighth in the SoCon. VPI played home games at Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Roster The following players were members of the 1957 football team according to the roster published in the 1958 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.
VPI 1957 roster Corbin Bailey Clyde Barnette Edwin M. Bartrug, Jr. Tom Betz Charles Philip Blankenship Ed Brinkley James Alexander Burks Kenneth Arnold Byrd Pat Luis Carpenito Bobby Conner William C. Cranwell Carroll Dale Frank H. Eastman Ray England Barry Frazee Pat Henry John Herndon Billy Holsclaw William Duncan Holsclaw, Jr. John Hubard Ben Hunter Harold Jones Walt Koenig Jim Kosko Leland Lawson Jim Lugar Robert A. Mangum Bob McCoy Julian Russell McCubbin William Roderick McGinnis Don McPeak Charles Moberg jr. John Moody Russell Sidney Moon Harry Parrish William Alger Pugh Jim Randall Dick Ringer O. Douglas Royals Bernard Frank Schmidt Albert Sebest Sam Shaffer Dickie Snead Chuck Stephens William J. Story, III Billy Tilling Donald Ray Vaught Frank Webster Kenneth Ray Wheeler Jay N. Whitesell Brian Zittrain
Coaching staff The following coaches were members of the 1957 football team according to the roster published in the 1958 edition of The Bugle.
VPI 1957 coaches' rosterHead coach Frank Moseley Assistant coach Buck Chapman Macauley McEver Alf Satterfield Don WatsonTrainer Ed Motley Equipment Manager Luke Lindon
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