1946 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1946 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1946 college football season. Rutgers was in its fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Harvey Harman. Harman had coached Rutgers from 1938 to 1941, but missed the 1942 to 1945 seasons while serving as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.[1] The 1946 team compiled a 7–2 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored its opponents 252 to 48. The team's only losses came against Columbia (7–13) and Princeton (7–14).[2][3]
| 1946 Rutgers Queensmen football | |
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Middle Three champion | |
| Conference | Middle Three Conference |
| 1946 record | 7–2 (2–0 Middle Three) |
| Head coach | Harvey Harman (5th season) |
| Home stadium | Rutgers Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers $ | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette $ | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 28 | at Columbia |
| L 7–13 | ||||
| October 5 | Johns Hopkins | W 53–0 | |||||
| October 12 | at NYU | W 26–0 | |||||
| October 19 | at Princeton | L 7–14 | |||||
| October 26 | George Washington |
| W 25–13 | ||||
| November 2 | at No. 17 Harvard | W 13–0 | [4] | ||||
| November 9 | Lafayette |
| W 41–2 | ||||
| November 16 | at Lehigh | W 55–6 | |||||
| November 23 | Bucknell |
| W 25–0 | 15,000 | [5] | ||
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References
- "Will Honor Rockafeller: Rutgers' Wartime Coach Started Career on Asbury Sandlot". Asbury Park Press. January 10, 1946. p. 14.
- "1946 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
- "Rutgers Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
- Jerry Nason (November 3, 1946). "Rutgers Upsets Crimson, 13-0". The Boston Globe. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
- Joe Burns (November 24, 1946). "Rutgers Trims Bucknell 25-0 Before 15,000". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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