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
Middle Three champion
ConferenceMiddle Three Conference
Record7–2 (2–0 Middle Three)
Head coach
1946 Middle Three Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Rutgers $ 2 –0 –07 –2 –0
Lafayette 1 –1 –02 –7 –0
Lehigh 0 –2 –02 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Rutgers was ranked at No. 49 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.[4]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at Columbia*
L 7–13 23,000 [5]
October 5Johns Hopkins*
W 53–0 7,000 [6]
October 12at NYU*
W 26–0 10,000 [7]
October 19at Princeton*
L 7–14 45,000 [8]
October 26George Washington*
  • Rutgers Stadium
  • Piscataway, NJ
W 25–13 8,000 [9]
November 2at No. 17 Harvard*
W 13–0 12,000 [10]
November 9Lafayettedagger
  • Rutgers Stadium
  • Piscataway, NJ
W 41–2 12,000 [11]
November 16at Lehigh
W 55–6 7,000 [12]
November 23Bucknell*
  • Rutgers Stadium
  • Piscataway, NJ
W 25–015,000[13]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game

References
  1. "Will Honor Rockafeller: Rutgers' Wartime Coach Started Career on Asbury Sandlot". Asbury Park Press. January 10, 1946. p. 14.
  2. "1946 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  3. "Rutgers Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  4. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 15, 1946). "Rice Rated Fifth Best, Tennessee 12th by Lit". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. B4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Turkin, Hy (September 29, 1946). "Lions Edge Rutgers, 13-7; Cestary Scores Twice". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C47 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Burns, Joe (October 6, 1946). "7,000 See Rutgers in First Win". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Turkin, Hy (October 13, 1946). "Frosh Pilots Rutgers over Violets, 26-0". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. 46C – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Burns, Joe (October 20, 1946). "Princeton Beats Rutgers 14 to 7 in Close Contest". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Burns, Joe (October 27, 1946). "Rutgers Topples Washington by Score of 25-13". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Noonan, Tom (November 3, 1946). "Rutgers Trips Harvard, 13-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. S1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Burns, Joe (November 10, 1946). "Rutgers Smothers Lafayette 41 to 2". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Burns, Joe (November 17, 1946). "Rutgers Drubs Lehigh 55 to 6 and Keeps Title". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Burns, Joe (November 24, 1946). "Rutgers Trims Bucknell 25-0 Before 15,000". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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