1957 VPI Gobblers football team

1957 VPI Gobblers football
Conference	Southern Conference
Record	4–6 (1–3 SoCon)
Head coach	Frank Moseley (7th season)
Home stadium	Miles Stadium

1957 Southern Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 20 VMI $	6	–	0	–	0			9	–	0	–	1
West Virginia	3	–	0	–	0			7	–	2	–	1
The Citadel	4	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	1
Furman	2	–	1	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Richmond	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
William & Mary	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Davidson	1	–	3	–	0			5	–	3	–	0
VPI	1	–	3	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
George Washington	1	–	5	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Washington and Lee	0	–	0	–	0			0	–	8	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

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.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20		at Tulane*	Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA	W 14–13	32,000
September 28		at West Virginia	Mountaineer Field Morgantown, WV (rivalry)	L 0–14	26,000
October 5		at William & Mary	Cary Field Williamsburg, VA	L 7–13	10,000
October 12		Villanova*	Miles Stadium Blacksburg, VA	W 21–14	14,000
October 19		vs. Virginia*	City Stadium Richmond, VA (Tobacco Bowl, rivalry)	L 7–38	23,442
October 26		at Florida State*	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	L 7–20	18,556
November 2		Richmond	Miles Stadium Blacksburg, VA	W 42–7	5,500
November 9	2:00 p.m.	at Wake Forest*	Bowman Gray Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	W 10–3	5,500
November 16	1:30 p.m.	vs. No. 19 NC State*	Victory Stadium Roanoke, VA	L 0–12
November 28		vs. No. 17 VMI	Victory Stadium Roanoke, VA (rivalry)	L 6–14	25,000
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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' roster
	Head coach Frank Moseley Assistant coach Buck Chapman Macauley McEver Alf Satterfield Don Watson		Trainer Ed Motley Equipment Manager Luke Lindon