1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

The 1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1946 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania. The team is notable for voting to cancel a scheduled game against the Miami Hurricanes rather that playing without African American players.[2]

1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1946 record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumNew Beaver Field
1946 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army      9 0 1
Muhlenberg      9 1 0
Yale      7 1 1
Buffalo      7 2 0
Harvard      7 2 0
Massachusetts State      6 2 0
No. 13 Penn      6 2 0
Penn State      6 2 0
Boston College      6 3 0
Columbia      6 3 0
NYU      5 3 0
Cornell      5 3 1
Villanova      6 4 0
Boston College      7 3 0
Hofstra      4 3 0
Colgate      4 4 0
Syracuse      4 5 0
Drexel      3 4 0
Franklin & Marshall      3 4 0
Brown      3 5 1
Pittsburgh      3 5 1
Princeton      3 5 0
Temple      2 4 2
Bucknell      3 6 0
Dartmouth      3 6 0
Tufts      1 6 0
Carnegie Tech      0 6 0
Fordham      0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 5BucknellW 48–6
October 12at SyracuseW 9–0
October 19Michigan State
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
L 16–19
October 26at ColgateW 6–2
November 2Fordham
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 68–0
November 9Temple
  • New Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 26–0
November 16at NavyW 12–7
November 23at PittsburghL 7–14
November 29at Miami (FL)canceled
  • Homecoming

The scheduled game against the Miami Hurricanes was cancelled in early November by unanimous vote of the Penn State team.[2] Miami officials felt that Penn State fielding their African American players Wallace Triplett and Dennis Hoggard in Miami could have led to "unfortunate incidents",[3] and the team chose to cancel the game rather than playing without Triplett and Hoggard.[2]

Miami reportedly invited Syracuse to replace Penn State. This invitation was promptly declined and rebuked in an editorial in The Daily Orange, titled "No Thanks, Miami".[4]

References

  1. "Penn State Yearly Results (1945-1949)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. "Football team stood against racism, broke barriers in 1946-47". psu.edu. February 14, 2006. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. "Penn State-Miami U. Grid Game Is Latest Victim of 'Racial Problem'". The Gazette and Daily. York, Pennsylvania. AP. November 6, 1946. p. 25. Retrieved January 5, 2020 via Newspapers.com .
  4. "Syracuse Turns Down Miami Offer to Sub for Penn State". The Tribune. Scranton, Pennsylvania. 13 November 1946. p. 17. Retrieved 29 November 2020 via Newspapers.com .
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