1952 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team
American college football season
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The 1952 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team represented Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (TPI)—now known as Tennessee Tech–as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1952 college football season. Led by 25th-year head coach Preston Vaughn Overall, the Golden Eagles compiled an overall record of 9–1 with a mark of 4–1 in conference play, sharing the OVC title with Western Kentucky. Tennessee Tech was invited to the Tangerine Bowl, where they lost to East Texas State. The team's captain was Tom Fann and the alternative captain was Ken Broyles.[1]
ConferenceOhio Valley Conference
Record9–2 (4–1 OVC)
Headcoach
- Preston Vaughn Overall (25th season)
CaptainTom Fann
| 1952 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football | |
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OVC co-champion | |
Tangerine Bowl, L 0–33 vs. East Texas State | |
| Conference | Ohio Valley Conference |
| Record | 9–2 (4–1 OVC) |
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| Captain | Tom Fann |
| Alternate captain | Ken Broyles |
| Home stadium | Overall Field |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Kentucky + | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennessee Tech + | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Murray State | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Middle Tennessee | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Kentucky | 0 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Morehead State | 0 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 13 | 503rd Airborne / Fort Campbell* |
| W 27–0 | [2] | ||
| September 27 | 8:00 p.m. | at Murray State |
| W 14–13 | [3][4] | |
| October 4 | Morehead State |
| W 30–6 | [5] | ||
| October 11 | Eastern Kentucky |
| W 28–14 | [6] | ||
| October 18 | at Arkansas State* | Jonesboro, AR | W 21–13 | |||
| October 25 | 8:00 p.m. | Western Kentucky |
| W 21–13 | 6,000 | [7][8] |
| November 1 | at Marshall* | W 28–7 | [9] | |||
| November 8 | East Tennessee State* |
| W 21–13 | 4,000 | [10][11] | |
| November 15 | Memphis State* |
| W 35–0 | [12] | ||
| November 27 | 2:00 p.m. | Middle Tennessee |
| L 7–19 | 8,500 | [13][14] |
| January 1 | vs. East Texas State* | L 0–33 | 12,340 | [15][16] | ||
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