1948 UMass Redmen football team

1948 Yankee Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion;

The 1948 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1948 college football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Thomas Eck and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. UMass finished the season with a record of 3–4–1 overall and 1–1 in conference play.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 25	Bates*	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 7–6
October 2	at Norwich*	Sabine Field Northfield, VT	L 19–27
October 9	Worcester Tech*	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 26–7
October 16	at Rhode Island State	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	L 12–19
October 23	at Fort Devens*	Devens, MA	L 14–20
October 30	Vermont	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 33–0	^[1]
November 6	Springfield*	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	L 0–31
November 13	at Tufts*	Tufts Oval Somerville, MA	T 13–13
*Non-conference game

^ "Anderson sparkles as Univ. of Mass. blanks Vermont, 33–0". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1948. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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1948 Yankee Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
New Hampshire $	3	–	1	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Connecticut	2	–	1	–	0	3	–	5	–	0
Vermont	1	–	1	–	0	4	–	3	–	1
UMass	1	–	1	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Maine	1	–	2	–	0	4	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State	1	–	3	–	0	2	–	4	–	1

$ – Conference champion