# 1924 VPI Gobblers football team

The 1924 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1924 college football season. The team was led by their head coach B. C. Cubbage and finished with a record of four wins, two losses and three ties (4–2–3).

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
| September 27 | | Richmond* | Miles FieldBlacksburg, VA | W 28–0 | |
| October 4 | | Hampden–Sydney* | Miles FieldBlacksburg, VA | W 10–0 | |
| October 11 | | vs. Auburn | Mayo Island ParkRichmond, VA | T 0–0 | 5,000–7,000 |
| October 18 | 2:30 p.m. | vs. Maryland | Central High SchoolWashington, DC | W 12–0 | |
| October 25 | | vs. Washington and Lee | Lynchburg Fair GroundsLynchburg, VA | T 0–0 | 7,000 |
| November 1 | 11:00 a.m. | at Clemson | Riggs FieldCalhoun, SC | W 50–6 | |
| November 8 | | at NC State | Riddick StadiumRaleigh, NC | L 3–6 | |
| November 15 | | Virginia | Miles FieldBlacksburg, VA (rivalry) | L 0–6 | |
| November 27 | 2:15 p.m. | VMI | Maher FieldRoanoke, VA (rivalry) | T 0–0 | 15,000 |
| *Non-conference game |||||||

## Before the season

The 1923 VPI Gobblers football team compiled a 6–3 record and were led by B. C. Cubbage in his third season as head coach.

## Game summaries
### Richmond

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Richmond | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| • VPI | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
VPI's first game of the season was a victory over Richmond at Miles Field.
The starting lineup for VPI was: Greene (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Liebrecht (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Rutherford (quarterback), Esleeck (left halfback), DeLaBarre (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: Bird, Bond, Culbreth, Downing, Ellison, Ewing, Gaines, Handy, Holly, Jeffries, Kennedy, Krebs, Lineberry, Nutter, Roberts, Rousele, Talman, Williams and Wood.
The starting lineup for Richmond was: Taylor Sanford (left end), R. R. Robins (left tackle), E. H. Witten (left guard), E. L. Minter (center), Basil Minter (right guard), W. S. Bentley (right tackle), Claude Reams (right end), A. P. Newcomb (quarterback), William McCorkle (left halfback), E. W. Savory (right halfback), Meyer Vitsky (fullback). The substitutes were: C. L. Dillon, Dunsmore, D. R. Fick, Virgil Goode, Reese, William Roper and Whitfield.

### Hampden–Sydney

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| HS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| • VPI | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
After their victory over Richmond, VPI played Hampden–Sydney College at Miles Field.
The starting lineup for VPI was: Greene (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Liebrecht (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Esleeck (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), DeLaBarre (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: Bird, Bond, Culbreth, Downing, Gaines, Handy, Holly, Jeffries, Kennedy, Krebs, Nutter, Talman and Williams.
The starting lineup for Hampden–Sydney was: Simmerman (left end), Cecil Blankenship (left tackle), William Venable (left guard), Alfred Dudley (center), Edward Sager (right guard), Harry Myles (right tackle), Archie Jones (right end), Harold Dudley (quarterback), James Holladay (left halfback), David Squires (right halfback), William Richardson (fullback). The substitutes were: John Brinser, Gordon Clarke, Eldridge, Hagan, Maxwell Harper, Hurt, Mace, Edwin Ott, David Reveley and Richard Roberts.

### Auburn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Auburn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VPI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Greene (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Liebrecht (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Esleeck (left halfback), Rutherford (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: DeLaBarre, Holly and Nutter.
The starting lineup for Auburn was: Leslie "Buck" Spinks (left end), W. P. Grisham (left tackle), E. McFadden (left guard), J. D. Lawrence (center), R. G. Brice (right guard), Sitz (right tackle), Clyde Pruitt (right end), S. Dean Petersen (quarterback), Greene (left halfback), Ernest Williams (right halfback), Herman Salter (fullback). The substitutes were: Edward Allen, McCully, George Ollinger, Geddes Self and Turner.

### Maryland

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Maryland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| • VPI | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Nutter (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Greene (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), Moss (right halfback), DeLaBarre (fullback). The substitutes were: Esleeck.
The starting lineup for Maryland was: Bill Supplee (left end), Walter Bromley (left tackle), Arthur Bonnet (left guard), Gomer Lewis (center), John Hough (right guard), Joseph C. Burger (right tackle), William Beatty (right end), Arthur Boyd (quarterback), Leland Cardwell (left halfback), George Heine (right halfback), Irving Hall (fullback). The substitutes were: Kenneth Coghill, Gilbert Dent, George Luckey, Alvin Parker and John Waters.

### Washington and Lee

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| W&L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VPI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Nutter (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Greene (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), Esleeck (right halfback), DeLaBarre (fullback). The substitutes were: Holly, Krebs, Liebrecht and Moss.
The starting lineup for Washington and Lee was: Ralph Daves (left end), Warren E. Tilson (left tackle), Robert Holt (left guard), Charlie Van Horn (center), Merrell Budnick (right guard), Leslie Stemmons (right tackle), James Kay Thomas (right end), Henry Wilson (quarterback), William Palmer (left halfback), Ty Rauber (right halfback), Eddie Cameron (fullback). The substitutes were: Harry Dawson, Archie Hawkins, Henry McMillan and John McVay.

### Clemson

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| • VPI | 7 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 50 |
| Clemson | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Holly (left end), Greene (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Krebs (right end), Rutherford (quarterback), DeLaBarre (left halfback), Esleeck (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: Culbreth.

### NC State

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| VPI | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| • NC State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Holly (left end), Greene (left tackle), Ray (left guard), Moran (center), Frey (right guard), Graham (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), Esleeck (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: DeLaBarre, Jeffries and Krebs.
The starting lineup for NC State was: Samuel Wallis (left end), Cox (left tackle), William Beatty (left guard), Fred Logan (center), William White (right guard), G. Randolph Logan (right tackle), Joseph Ripple (right end), John Jeannette (quarterback), Alfred Johnston (left halfback), Walter Shuford (right halfback), Gaither Lassiter (fullback). The substitutes were: William Donnell, Henry Seawell and Charles Shuford.

### Virginia

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| • UVA | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| VPI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Nutter (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Greene (right tackle), Holly (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), DeLaBarre (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: Krebs and Liebrecht.
The starting lineup for Virginia was: Donald Darby (left end), Mul Holland (left tackle), A. Cockrill (left guard), James Reynolds (center), Charles Mackall (right guard), Reuben Hayman (right tackle), W. H. Ahner (right end), A. Carter Diffey (quarterback), Samuel Maphis (left halfback), Curtis Cuddy (right halfback), Charles Frost (fullback). The substitutes were: Walter Brown, Edmond Laird and Theodore Phillips.

### VMI

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| VMI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VPI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The starting lineup for VPI was: Nutter (left end), Graham (left tackle), Frey (left guard), Moran (center), Ray (right guard), Greene (right tackle), Bailey (right end), Roberts (quarterback), Rutherford (left halfback), DeLaBarre (right halfback), Moss (fullback). The substitutes were: Esleeck.
The starting lineup for VMI was: Newton Barkley (left end), Joseph Hope (left tackle), Thomas McCracken (left guard), Francis Ferguson (center), Carl Hammond (right guard), Frank Clements (right tackle), John Fain (right end), Paul Caldwell (quarterback), John Willis (left halfback), Karl Harmeling (right halfback), Windy White (fullback). The substitutes were: Robert Glendy.

## After the season

In December 1924, the VPI players elected Joseph Henry Moran as captain of the 1925 VPI Gobblers football team.

## Players
### Monogram Club members

Thirteen players received monograms for their participation on the 1924 VPI team.
| Player | Hometown | Notes |
| S. R. Bailey | | |
| Cecil Franzen DeLaBarre | Amherst, Nebraska | VA Commander (USNR) during World War I and II. DeLaBarre was also a Professor of Biology at VPI. |
| Z. E. Frey | | |
| Samuel Oscar Graham | | |
| Arthur Trevilian Greene | | |
| Forrest William Holly | | |
| Edward Frank Liebrecht | | |
| Joseph Henry Moran | | |
| Jack Wellford Moss | Roanoke, Virginia | United States Army Corps of Engineers. During World War II, he developed methods for crossing rice paddies in the Philippines in planning for the invasion of Japan. He was also the chief engineer in charge of plans, design and construction of Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base. |
| Oscar Price Nutter | Blacksburg, Virginia | 2nd Lieutenant, Army. |
| James Edward Ray | | |
| Arthur Roberts, Jr. | | |
| Donald Hurt Rutherford | | |

## Coaching and training staff

* Head coach: B. C. Cubbage
* Manager: W. T. Johns, Jr.
* Freshman head coach: Henry Redd
* Freshman assistant coach: Sherertz
* Freshman Manager: W. P. Wilkins