1948 Rutgers Queensmen football team
American college football season
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The 1948 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1948 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Harvey Harman, the Queensmen compiled a 7–2 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored their opponents 224 to 130.[1]
- Harvey Harman (7th season)
| 1948 Rutgers Queensmen football | |
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Middle Three champion | |
| Conference | Middle Three Conference |
| Record | 7–2 (2–0 Middle Three) |
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| Home stadium | Rutgers Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers $ | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On October 16, 1948, Rutgers defeated Princeton, 22-6, in front of a crowd of 41,000 at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey. This was the first Rutgers victory at Princeton in 79 years of play between the two schools, ending what the Associated Press called "the oldest jinx in intercollegiate football history."[2]
Rutgers was ranked at No. 58 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 25 | at Columbia* | L 6–27 | 28,000 | [4] | |||
| October 2 | Colgate* | W 34–19 | 16,000 | [5] | |||
| October 9 | Temple* |
| W 34–20 | 13,000 | [6] | ||
| October 16 | at Princeton* | W 22–7 | 41,000 | [2] | |||
| October 23 | at Lehigh | W 20–6 | 8,000 | [7] | |||
| October 30 | Brown* |
| L 6–20 | 20,000 | [8] | ||
| November 6 | Lafayette |
| W 34–13 | 18,000 | [9] | ||
| November 13 | at NYU* | W 40–0 | 4,000 | [10] | |||
| November 20 | Fordham* |
| W 28–19 | 10,000 | [11] | ||
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