1946 Massachusetts State Aggies football team

1946 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1946 Massachusetts State Aggies football
1946 Massachusetts State Aggies football
Conference	Independent
1946 record	6–2
Head coach	Walter Hargesheimer (3rd season);
Home stadium	Alumni Field
	Seasons ← 1945 1947 →

The 1946 Massachusetts State Aggies football team represented Massachusetts State College in the 1946 college football season. The team was coached by Walter Hargesheimer and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1946 season was the team's last as an Independent, as they would form the Yankee Conference with the other New England land-grant universities in 1947. It was also their last as the Mass State Aggies, as they would begin play in 1947 as the University of Massachusetts Redmen. Mass State finished the season with a record of 6–2.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 28	at Bates	Garcelon Field Lewiston, ME	L 0–6
October 5	Bowdoin	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 11–8
October 12	at Worcester Tech	Alumni Field Worcester, MA	W 39–0
October 19	Rhode Island State	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	L 6–14
October 26	at Norwich	Sabine Field Northfield, VT	W 14–0
November 2	Vermont	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 28–20	^[1]
November 9	CCNY	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 59–0	^[2]
November 16	at Tufts	Tufts Oval Somerville, MA	W 27–0

References[]

^ "95-yard runback fastens lid on Mass. State win". The Boston Globe. November 3, 1946. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Beavers crushed by Mass State, 59–0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 10, 1946. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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[1] "95-yard runback fastens lid on Mass. State win". The Boston Globe. November 3, 1946. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Beavers crushed by Mass State, 59–0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 10, 1946. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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National championship seasons in bold

1946 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 2 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 University		–		5	–	2	–	1
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
Vermont		–		2	–	3	–	2
Temple		–		2	–	4	–	2
Bucknell		–		3	–	6	–	0
Dartmouth		–		3	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		1	–	6	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		0	–	6	–	0
Fordham		–		0	–	7	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll