1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
CaptainRed Moore, Bucky Walters
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
Seasons
← 1945
1947 →
1946 Eastern major college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Army     9 0 1
Penn State     6 2 0
Boston College     6 3 0
Holy Cross     6 4 0
NYU     5 3 0
Villanova     6 4 0
Colgate     4 4 0
Syracuse     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 5 1
Temple     2 4 2
Merchant Marine     4 7 0
Bucknell     3 6 0
Fordham     0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State University as an independent during the 1946 college football season. In their 17th year under head coach Bob Higgins, the Nittany Lions compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 192 to 48.[1][2]

Penn State halfback Maderak was selected by the International News Service as a second-team player on the 1946 All-Eastern football team.[3]

The team voted to cancel a scheduled game against the Miami Hurricanes rather than playing without African American players.[4]

Penn State was ranked at No. 24 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.[5]

The team played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

  1. ^ "1946 Penn State Nittany Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
  2. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Army Has Five On INS East 11". The Daily American. Somerset, Pennsylvania. December 3, 1946. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Football team stood against racism, broke barriers in 1946-47". psu.edu. February 14, 2006. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 15, 1946). "Rice Rated Fifth Best, Tennessee 12th by Lit". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. B4 – via Newspapers.com.