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1939 Washington and Lee Generals football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ113696884 ↗
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The 1939 Washington and Lee Generals football team was an American football team that represented Washington and Lee University during the 1939 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference. In their seventh year under head coach Warren E. Tilson, the team compiled an overall record of 3–4–1, with a mark of 1–2 in conference play.

Washington and Lee was ranked at No. 113 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Washington, Generals and football can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1939 Washington and Lee Generals football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.