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The 1942 Manhattan Jaspers football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Herb Kopf, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 148 to 63.[1]

ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Headcoach
HomestadiumPolo Grounds
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1942 Manhattan Jaspers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Head coach
Home stadiumPolo Grounds
Seasons
 1941
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1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams  710
No. 19 Penn State  611
No. 8 Boston College  820
Buffalo  620
Bucknell  621
Colgate  621
Army  630
Syracuse  630
Duquesne  631
Yale  530
Fordham  531
Penn  531
No. T–19 Holy Cross  541
Dartmouth  540
Brown  440
Villanova  440
Vermont  430
Carnegie Tech  330
Boston University  450
Cornell  351
Princeton  351
Temple  253
Columbia  360
Pittsburgh  360
Tufts  251
Franklin & Marshall  142
Massachusetts State  250
Harvard  261
Manhattan  260
CCNY  171
Rankings from AP Poll
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Manhattan was ranked at No. 107 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

In July 1943, coach Kopf announced that Manhattan was abandoning football due to the manpower shortage resulting from wartime military service. Manhattan's usual enrollment had dropped from 1,000 students to 300 civilians along with 400 Army trainees, with the latter group being prohibited by War Department policy from participating in varsity athletics. Manhattan's decision followed a similar decision announced days earlier by Fordham.[3] It was part of a trend among Catholic universities during the war and immediate post-war years to terminate their football programs. The trend also involved Gonzaga (1941); Providence (1941); Creighton (1942); Saint Louis (1949); Portland (1949); Saint Mary's (1950);[a] Mount St. Mary's (1950);[4] Niagara (1950);[5] Loyola (1951); San Francisco (1951);[b] St. Bonaventure (1951)[6] and Santa Clara (1952).[c]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3MuhlenbergW 27–7[7]
October 10at GeorgetownL 7–912,000[8]
October 18Detroit
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 7–2112,500[9]
October 24Duquesne
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 10–7
November 1at VillanovaL 0–32
November 8at MarquetteL 12–2714,000[10]
November 14North Carolina Pre-Flight
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 0–17
November 21at Holy CrossL 0–28
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Notes

  1. Saint Mary's did make a comeback to football at "College Division" (ancestor of NCAA Division II and III) level between 1959 and 1992, and would play as an independent in NCAA division I-AA (ancestor of today's Football Championship Subdivision) between 1993 and 2003, before dropping football again after 2003.
  2. San Francisco did make a comeback to football at "College Division" level between 1959 and 1982, but has not fielded a varsity football team since 1983.
  3. Santa Clara did make a comeback to football at "College Division" level between 1959 and 1992, but has not fielded a varsity football team since 1993.

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