Vito Eupollio Ragazzo (1927 – February 13, 2017) was an American gridiron football player, coach, and scout. He played college football at the College of William & Mary and professionally with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, a forerunner of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Ragazzo served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) from 1966 to 1970 and at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1985, compiling a career college football coaching record of 51–72–1. Early life and playing career Ragazzo was born in 1927, in Aflex, Kentucky. He attended Williamson High School in Williamson, West Virginia, where he played football as an end and was a teammate of Dick Hensley. He was inducted into the Williamson High School Athletic Hall of Fame as an Inaugural Class Member in 1998. Ragazzo played college football at the College of William & Mary. In his college career with the William & Mary Indians, he caught 15 touchdown passes, which stood as an National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) record from 1949 until Howard Twilley of Tulsa broke it in 1965. Head coaching record College See also List of NCAA major college football yearly receiving leaders References 1927 births 2017 deaths American football ends American men's basketball players American players of Canadian football Canadian football defensive backs East Carolina Pirates football coaches Hamilton Tiger-Cats players New England Patriots scouts North Carolina Tar Heels football coaches Shippensburg Red Raiders football coaches VMI Keydets football coaches Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coaches William & Mary Tribe football players William & Mary Tribe men's basketball players High school football coaches in Virginia People from Pike County, Kentucky People from Williamson, West Virginia Coaches of American football from West Virginia Players of American football from West Virginia American people of Italian descent