Robert Kent Gooch

Robert Kent Gooch (September 26, 1893 – May 22, 1982) was an American football player and political scientist. Gooch was a quarterback for the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia. He was named a Rhodes Scholar, but the First World War interrupted his studies. During the war, Gooch served with the American Ambulance Corps with the French forces on the Somme front, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. For many years Gooch was a political science professor at UVA, writing several books.