1952 Brown Bears football team

The 1952 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1952 college football season.[1]

1952 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
1952 record2–7
Head coach
CaptainM. Matteodo
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
1952 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Hofstra   –    8 –1 –0
No. 19 Princeton   –    8 –1 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    7 –1 –0
Villanova   –    7 –1 –1
Holy Cross   –    8 –2 –0
Yale   –    7 –2 –0
Penn State   –    7 –2 –1
No. 14 Syracuse   –    7 –3 –0
Bucknell   –    6 –3 –0
Colgate   –    6 –3 –0
Pittsburgh   –    6 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –3 –0
Harvard   –    5 –4 –0
Boston University   –    5 –4 –1
Penn   –    4 –3 –2
Army   –    4 –4 –1
Boston College   –    4 –4 –1
Tufts   –    3 –4 –1
Drexel   –    3 –4 –0
Fordham   –    2 –5 –1
NYU   –    2 –5 –1
Columbia   –    2 –6 –1
Brown   –    2 –7 –0
Cornell   –    2 –7 –0
Dartmouth   –    2 –7 –0
Temple   –    2 –7 –1
Buffalo   –    1 –7 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

In their second season under head coach Alva Kelley, the Bears compiled a 2–7 record, and were outscored 220 to 89. M. Matteodo was the team captain.[2]

Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 at Yale
L 0–28 22,500 [3]
October 11 Rhode Island
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI (rivalry)
L 6–7 12,000 [4]
October 18 at Holy Cross
L 0–46 7,500 [5]
October 25 at Rutgers
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 7–19 4,500 [6]
November 1 at Princeton
L 0–39 13,000 [7]
November 8 Connecticut
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 21–13 4,500 [8]
November 15 Harvard
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 28–21 12,000 [9]
November 22 at Columbia
L 0–14 4,000 [10]
November 27 Colgate
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
L 27–33 7,000 [11]

References
  1. "1952 Brown Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  2. "Game-by-Game Results (1878-2019)". Providence, R.I.: Brown University. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  3. Briordy, William J. (October 5, 1952). "Yale Aerial Attack Checks Brown, 28-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. "Rhode Island Kick Topples Brown, 7-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. October 12, 1952. p. S1.
  5. Fitzgerald, Tom (October 19, 1952). "Holy Cross Rambles to 46-0 Triumph over Brown". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 58 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Rutgers Rallies to Vanquish Brown for First Victory of Football Campaign". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 26, 1952. p. S7.
  7. Strauss, Michael (November 2, 1952). "Princeton Trounces Brown, 39-0, as Tiger Coach Uses Entire Bench". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. "Brown Sets Back Connecticut, 21-13". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. November 9, 1952. p. S2.
  9. "Brown's Football Squad Registers First Triumph over Harvard Since 1949". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 16, 1952. p. S2.
  10. Werden, Lincoln A. (November 23, 1952). "Lions Beat Brown in Finale, 14 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. Strauss, Michael (November 28, 1952). "Colgate Defeats Brown; Red Raiders Down Bruins, 33-27, on Lalla's Fourth-Quarter Aerial". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. 29.
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