1937 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team

1937 Michigan State Normal Hurons football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainAugust R. DeFroscia
Home stadiumNormal Field
Seasons
← 1936
1938 →
1937 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan State     8 2 0
Akron     7 2 0
Central Michigan     6 2 0
DePaul     5 1 2
Wayne     6 2 0
No. T–9 Notre Dame     6 2 1
Detroit     7 3 0
Michigan State Normal     5 2 1
Western State Teachers (MI)     5 3 0
Xavier     4 5 1
Marquette     3 6 0
Haskell     2 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1937 college football season. In their 16th season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled a record of 5–2–1 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 156 to 69. August R. DeFroscia was the team captain.[1] The team played its home games at Normal Field on the school's campus in Ypsilanti, Michigan.[2]

In January 1937, Walter Briggs Sr., a native of Ypsilanti, agreed to donate an athletic plant to the school, consisting of a field house and football and baseball grandstands.[3] The football field was called Walter O. Briggs Field in his honor.[4] It opened in March 1938.[5]

  1. ^ "2015 Eastern Michigan Football Digital Media Guide" (PDF). Eastern Michigan University Football. pp. 162, 170. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ 2015 Media Guide, p. 25.
  3. ^ "Briggs Gives M.S.N. Sports Plant". Detroit Free Press. January 9, 1937. p. 15.
  4. ^ "Campus Buildings At a Glance: Walter O. Briggs Field". Eastern Michigan University. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  5. ^ "Hurons Will Open Briggs Field, Too". Detroit Free Press. March 6, 1938. p. 42.