Sumner D. Tilson

{{Short description|American football player and coach (1898–1964)}}

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| name = Tex Tilson

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|7|6}}

| birth_place = Childress, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|11|13|1898|7|6}}

| death_place = Staunton, Virginia, U.S.

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1918–1922

| player_team2 = VPI

| player_positions = Tackle, guard

| coach_years1 = 1942

| coach_team1 = VPI

| overall_record = 7–2–1

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Sumner Dewey "Tex" Tilson{{Cite web |url=http://www.mocavo.com/Virginia-Polytechnic-Institute-1934-Blacksburg-Va/199436/325 |title=Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1934), Blacksburg, VA |access-date=2015-12-18 |archive-date=2015-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222120331/http://www.mocavo.com/Virginia-Polytechnic-Institute-1934-Blacksburg-Va/199436/325 |url-status=dead }} (July 5, 1898 – November 13, 1964) was an American football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as Virginia Tech—for one season, in 1942, compiling a record of 7–2–1.{{cite news | title=Virginia Tech Football Records | url =http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/virginiatech_database.htm | access-date = December 10, 2007 }} Tilson also played college football at VPI.{{Cite web|work=Virginia Tech Bugle|url=http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/bugle/bugl1919/1919_BUGLE.pdf|title=The Bugle 1919|date=1919|page=183|access-date=December 13, 2015}}

Biography

Tilson was born on July 5, 1898, in Childress, Texas, to William Ransom Tilson and Sallie Ellen Williams. His grandfather Granville Tilson was a cattle trader in Matador, Texas.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/tilsongenealogyf00tils#page/182/mode/2up|title = The Tilson genealogy, from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, N.E., 1638 to 1911; with brief sketches of the family in England back to 1066. Also brief account to Waterman, Murdock, Bartlett, Turner, Winslow, Sturtevant, Keith and Parris families, allied with the parents of the author|year = 1911|publisher = [Plymouth, The Memorial Press}} He died in November 1964 in Virginia.