The 1955 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 1955 college football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Frank Moseley the Gobblers compiled an overall record of 6–3–1 with a mark of 2–1–1 in conference play, and finished second 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 1955 football team according to the roster published in the 1956 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.
VPI 1955 roster Jack Allen Corbin Bailey Richard VanMetre "Dickie" Beard (Capt.) Tom Betz Ed Brinkley Franklin Dewey Brown Leo Burke Hayes Howell Burleson Pat Luis Carpenito Bobby Conner William C. Cranwell Robert J. Cruickshank Charles Cuba Bill Daley Thomas John Dalzell Raymond Donald Divers Hugh David Ebert Ray England Barry Frazee Ed Gentry John Rufus Hall James Lupton Hedrick John Herndon William Edward Jamerson Grover Cleveland Jones III James Patrick Locke Jim Lugar Bob McCoy Russell Sidney Moon Doug Mullins Hillmer John "Swede" Olson Jack Warren Prater Thomas Carl Richards Bernard Frank Schmidt Robert Earl Scruggs Bobby Seal Roger Winfield Simmons Billy Tilling Phillip William Unger Frank Webster Bobby Wolfenden
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