The 1945 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1945 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Herbert McEver and finished with a record of two wins and six losses (2–6). This was VPI's first season since 1942 after the suspension of the football program at the institute during the 1943 and 1944 seasons due to the Second World War.
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Roster The following players were members of the 1945 football team.
VPI 1945 roster Frank H. Ballard Clinton Barns Joseph Beard Ralph Coe Beard Ernest Booher Floyd Samuel Bowles Leigh Carter Budwell Thomas Craig Burns Harry Bushkar John Bushkar Billy Patrick DeNardo Charles Mugler Forbes Howard G. Forrest Elder Grifton Glenn Jr Thomas Gregory John L. Hamilton William H. Hegamyer Robert Hess Newman Hoffman William Hubble Cary Kenyon Johnson J. R. Kautz William Kinsey Albert Klele Timothy Lawler Stanley Majcher Robert McLear Ross Moore Orr Clifford Peacock Joseph Peery Jay B. Ratliff Charles Rolfe E. Gerald Staley James Tilson Bobby Joe Wellman Edwin Williams Forrest Bayard "Frank" Yarborough Gerhard Charles Zekert
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