1948 Detroit Titans football team
American college football season
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The 1948 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit as an independent during the 1948 college football season. Detroit outscored its opponents by a combined total of 209 to 112 and finished with a 6–3 record in its fourth year under head coach Chuck Baer.[1]
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Headcoach
- Chuck Baer (4th season)
HomestadiumUniversity of Detroit Stadium
| 1948 Detroit Titans football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 6–3 |
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| Home stadium | University of Detroit Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 2 Notre Dame | – | 9 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marquette | – | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Detroit was ranked at No. 60 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 24 | Toledo | W 36–0 | 20,741 | [3] | ||||
| October 1 | Marquette |
| W 34–6 | 22,643 | [4] | |||
| October 8 | San Francisco |
| W 40–7 | 16,123 | [5] | |||
| October 15 | Miami (FL) |
| L 0–6 | 18,451 | [6] | |||
| October 22 | Wayne |
| W 13–0 | 24,321 | [7] | |||
| October 29 | Villanova |
| L 6–27 | 24,381 | [8] | |||
| November 6 | at Denver | L 27–30 | [9] | |||||
| November 14 | 3:00 p.m. | at Saint Louis |
| W 27–14 | 6,387 | [10][11][12][13] | ||
| November 27 | at Tulsa | W 26–22 | 3,406 | [14] | ||||
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