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Will Metzger

Vanderbilt Commodores
Position	Guard/Fullback
Class	Graduate
Personal information
Born:	(1890-08-21)August 21, 1890 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died:	December 2, 1951(1951-12-02) (aged 61) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career history
College	Vanderbilt (1908–1911)
Career highlights and awards
SIAA championship (1910, 1911) All-Southern (1909, 1910, 1911) Third Team All-American (1910) AP Southeast All-Time team (1869–1919 era) 1912 All-time Vandy 1st team 1934 All-time Vandy team

William Edgar "Frog" Metzger, Jr. (August 21, 1890 – December 2, 1951) was a college football player.

Vanderbilt

Metzger was a prominent guard for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1908 to 1911. Metzger was Dan McGugin's first great lineman. Metzger was selected for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. Metzger was chosen for an all-time Vandy team in 1912, as well as an All-time Vandy team published in Vanderbilt's yearbook in 1934. At Vanderbilt he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.

1909

Metzger was injured in the loss to Ohio State in 1909, breaking his leg just above the knee.

1910

The 1910 team which tied defending national champion Yale and allowed just 8 points and scored 165 was led by Metzger, a unanimous All-Southern player and third-team All-American as chosen by Walter Camp. He was the third ever player from the South to get on one of Camp's teams.

References

1. "2014 Vanderbilt Commodores Football Media Guide" (PDF). p. 143.
2. "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
3. Vanderbilt University (1913). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 13. p. 56.
4. "Vandy Loses to Ohio State". Atlanta Constitution. November 14, 1909. p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Traughber, Bill (November 9, 2005). "Commodores Shock Powerful Yale in 1910". Retrieved February 11, 2015.
6. Christopher J. Walsh (2006). Where Football Is King: A History of the SEC. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 120. ISBN 9781461734772.
7. "Three Westerners Selected By Camp: Benbrook and Wells of Michigan and Walker of Minnesota Named for All-American". The Indianapolis Star. December 11, 1910.
8. Order, Kappa Alpha (1913). "On the Gridiron and Diamond". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 30 (2): 211.

• Vanderbilt Commodores football players
• American football guards
• All-Southern college football players
• 1890 births
• 1951 deaths
• Players of American football from Nashville, Tennessee
• American football fullbacks