1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team

1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
CaptainClaire E. Ebersole
Home stadiumBriggs Field
Seasons
← 1947
1949 →
1948 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan Tech     7 0 0
No. 2 Notre Dame     9 0 1
Bowling Green     8 0 1
Washington University     9 1 0
John Carroll     7 1 2
Ball State     6 2 0
Michigan State     6 2 2
Baldwin–Wallace     5 2 2
Detroit     6 3 0
Indiana State     4 4 0
Wabash     4 4 0
Wayne     4 4 0
Valparaiso     4 5 0
Toledo     5 6 0
Michigan State Normal     3 5 0
Xavier     4 6 0
Central Michigan     3 6 0
Marquette     2 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1948 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1948 college football season. In their 26th and final season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled a 3–5 record and were outscored by their opponents, 114 to 66. Claire E. Ebersole was the team captain.[1]

Rynearson retired as head football coach after the 1948 season after 26 years in that position. He remained the school's athletic director.[2] In his 26 years as head football coach, Rynearson compiled a record of 114–58–15 (.648), and his teams outscored their opponents, 2,574 to 1,415.[3]

  1. ^ "2015 Eastern Michigan Football Digital Media Guide" (PDF). Eastern Michigan University Football. pp. 162, 170. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "Harry Ockerman Named Huron Grid Mentor". Detroit Free Press. August 27, 1949. p. 19.
  3. ^ 2015 Media Guide, p. 171.