• General manager Chet Soda said the team was finalizing the contracts of “about 40 more players”
• Tribune columnist Ray Haywood reported that the team had received about 4,000 season ticket applications and that they were “close to signing an assistant general manager”
• The team confirmed the drafting of end Alan Goldstein from Buffalo and added two more names to the list of draftees: guard Ramon Armstrong from the Titans and halfback Buddy Allen from the Patriots
• They also announced the signing of free agent defensive end Jerry Flynn out of Humboldt State
| Eddie Erdelatz | Head coach | |||||
| Marty Feldman | Defensive line | |||||
| Ernie Jorge | Offensive line | |||||
| Tommy Kalmanir | Offensive backfield |
| Name | Pos | Ht | Wt | School | Birthdate | |
| Buddy Allen | HB | 5'11“ | 195 | Utah State | 7/11/1937 | |
| Ramon Armstrong | G | 6'1” | 225 | Texas Christian | 10/6/1937 | |
| George Blanch | DB | 6'0“ | 195 | Texas | 2/18/1938 | |
| Clord Boyette | OL | 6'4” | 245 | Texas Southern | 3/30/1935 | |
| Willie Boykin | DT | 6'4“ | 245 | Michigan State | 1934(?) | |
| Joe Cannavino | CB | 5'11” | 185 | Ohio State | 1/20/1935 | |
| Carmen Cavalli | DE | 6'4“ | 245 | Richmond | 6/11/1937 | |
| Fran Curci | QB | 5'9” | 160 | Miami (FL) | 6/11/1938 | |
| Purcell Daniels | FB | 6'2“ | 205 | Pepperdine | 1/1/1936 | |
| Dan Edgington | E | 6'2” | 190 | Florida | 4/10/1937 | |
| Jerry Epps | G | 6'1“ | 230 | West Texas State | 1935(?) | |
| Jerry Flynn | DE | 6'1” | 230 | Humboldt State | 1935 | |
| Alan Goldstein | WR | 6'0“ | 200 | North Carolina | 1/8/1936 | |
| Ed Hino | QB | 5'11” | 185 | George Washington | 1938(?) | |
| Jack Larscheid | HB | 5'6“ | 160 | Pacific | 5/10/1933 | |
| Marvin Lasater | HB | 6'1” | 190 | Texas Christian | 2/25/1938 | |
| Billy Lott | FB | 6'0“ | 200 | Mississippi | 11/8/1934 | |
| Sam McCord | QB | 5'10” | 185 | East Texas State | 2/23/1933 | |
| Bob Nelson | C | 6'5“ | 245 | Wisconsin | 1938(?) | |
| Don Norton | WR | 6'1” | 180 | Iowa | 3/13/1938 | |
| Jim Otto | C | 6'2“ | 225 | Miami (FL) | 1/5/1938 | |
| Bob Parker | T | 5'11” | 215 | East Texas State | 6/4/1937 | |
| Gene Prebola | TE | 6'3“ | 215 | Boston University | 6/30/1938 | |
| Tony Teresa | HB | 5'10” | 185 | San Jose State | 12/8/1933 | |
| Jim Woodard | T | 6'5“ | 230 | Lamar Tech | 8/23/1938 |