1946 Allen Yellow Jackets football team

1946 Allen Yellow Jackets football
SEAC champion
Piedmont Tobacco Bowl, W 40–6 vs. Fayetteville State
ConferenceSoutheastern Athletic Conference
Record8–2 (– SEAC)
Head coach
  • William "Buster" Lawson, Hooks Nelson
Seasons
← 1945
1947 →
1946 Southeastern Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 11 Allen $ 4 0 0 8 2 0
No. 12 Bethune–Cookman 1 1 1 8 1 1
Florida N&I 1 1 1 6 3 1
Paine 1 2 0 4 2 1
Claflin 0 3 0 1 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Pittsburgh Courier Dickinson System

The 1946 Allen Yellow Jackets football team was an American football team that represented Allen University of Columbia, South Carolina, in the Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC) during the 1946 college football season. William "Buster" Lawson and Hooks Nelson were the team's coaches.[1] The team compiled an 8–2 record, won the SEAA championship and outscored opponents by a total of 244 to 43. The Yellow Jackets lost the first two games of the season and then won the remain eight games, including a victory over Fayetteville State in the Piedmont Tobacco Bowl.[2]

The Dickinson System rated Allen as the No. 11 black college football team for 1946.[3]

  1. ^ "Allen Jackets Open Practice". The Columbia Record. September 4, 1946. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "1946 – Allen (SC)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 13, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
  3. ^ Lucius Jones (December 7, 1946). "Morgan Wins But Tennessee Is Still Tops". The Pittsburgh Courier. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.