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1909 VPI football team

1909 VPI football
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Conference Independent
1909 record 6–1
Head coach Branch Bocock (1st year)
Captain Hoss Hodgson
Home stadium Miles Field
Seasons
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1909 SAIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
VPI + 4 – 0 – 0     6 – 1 – 0
Virginia + 3 – 0 – 0     7 – 1 – 0
George Washington 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 3 – 0
William & Mary 1 – 1 – 0     6 – 4 – 0
Georgetown 1 – 2 – 0     3 – 2 – 0
Richmond 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 5 – 2
Davidson 0 – 1 – 0     3 – 4 – 2
  • + – Conference co-champions
Clemson at VPI
1 2 Total
Clemson 0 0 0
• VPI 6 0 6
  • Date: October 6
  • Location: Miles Field
    Blacksburg, VA
  • Referee: Shaughnessy
VPI at Princeton
1 2 Total
VPI 6 0 6
• Princeton 5 3 8
VPI at Richmond
1 2 Total
• VPI 29 23 52
Richmond 0 0 0

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VPI at Washington & Lee
1 2 Total
• VPI 11 23 34
W&L 0 5 5
  • Date: October 30
  • Location: Lynchburg, VA
  • Game attendance: 2,200
  • Referee: Barry (Georgetown)

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North Carolina at VPI
1 2 Total
UNC 0 0 0
• VPI 6 9 15
  • Date: November 6
  • Location: Broad Street Park
    Richmond, VA
  • Game start: 3:30 p. m.
  • Game attendance: 2,000
  • Referee: Pat Barry (Georgetown)

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VPI at George Washington
1 2 Total
• VPI 11 6 17
GW 3 5 8

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North Carolina A&M at VPI
1 2 Total
N.C. A&M 0 5 5
• VPI 12 6 18
  • Date: November 25
  • Location: Athletic Park
    Norfolk, VA
  • Game start: 2:30 p. m.
  • Game attendance: 10,000
  • Referee: Myers (Harvard)

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The 1909 VPI football team represented the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1909 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Branch Bocock, the team went 6–1 and claims a Southern championship. Tech outscored its opponents 148 to 27. The starting lineup averaged 172 pounds. This is the first season the team was referred to in print as the "Gobblers", and it became the official nickname in 1912.

The following players were members of the 1909 football team according to the roster published in the 1910 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.

VPI opened its season with the Clemson Tigers, winning 6–0. "Hughes, playing quarter for the first time, starred for V. P. I." Hughes got the touchdown when he picked up a fumble.

VPI's starting lineup was: Sharpe (left end), Jones (left tackle), E. Hodgson (left guard), Gibbs (center), Burrass (right guard), Norris (right tackle), Hicks (right end), Hughes (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Luttrell (right halfback), Leggs (fullback).

VPI's strongest showing came in the close loss to Princeton. In a game plagued by frigid weather conditions, each side scored on a fumble. Princeton's Logan Cunningham scored a touchdown in the first two minutes of play after a fumble on VPI's 10-yard line, and missed the extra point. Later in the contest, a snap from center went over the Princeton quarterback's head, and Hoss Hodgson returned the lost fumble 50 yards for a touchdown. Hodgson then made his own extra point. After leading 6 to 5 for some time, and only minutes left to play, Princeton's Cunningham made a drop kick to secure the 8 to 6 victory.

VPI's starting lineup was: Luttrell (left end), Burruss (left tackle), Jones (left guard), Gibbes (center), E. Hodgson (right guard), Norris (right tackle), Hicks (right end), Hughes (quarterback), Davis (left halfback), Billups (right halfback), V. Hodgson (fullback).

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VPI rolled up the season's largest score on the Richmond Spiders, winning 52–0 and playing well on both sides of the ball, especially the offense. The backfield starred in a game of conventional football.


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