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1923 VPI Gobblers football team

American college football team season

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Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ21188067 ↗
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The 1923 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1923 college football season. The team was led by their head coach B. C. Cubbage and finished with a record of six wins and three losses (6–3).

In November 1923, VPI's fieldhouse, which held all of their football equipment, was destroyed by a fire. Coach Cubbage had to go to Philadelphia to get replacement equipment.

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Before the season

The 1922 VPI Gobblers football team compiled a 8–1–1 record and were led by B. C. Cubbage in his second season as head coach.

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Hampden–Sydney

VPI's first game of the season was a victory over Hampden–Sydney at Miles Field.

The starting lineup for VPI was: Rhodes (left end), Baker (left tackle), Ray (left guard), Moran (center), Hammock (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Holly (right end), Sutton (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), Flory (right halfback), Buchanan (fullback). The substitutes were: Bailey, Beck, DeLaBarre, Ebert, Gaines, Greene, Liebrecht, Moss, Nutter, Pumphrey, Roberts, Whitt and Wood.

The starting lineup for Hampden–Sydney was: Edwin Ott (left end), William Fuqua (left tackle), Kent (left guard), Alfred Dudley (center), Cecil Blankenship (right guard), Edward Sager (right tackle), Hurt (right end), Robert Brenaman (quarterback), Bailey Tyson (left halfback), A. A. Adkins (right halfback), Claiborne Carter (fullback). The substitutes were: Gold, W. Nace, William Richardson and William Venable.

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