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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