| 1946New Hampshire Wildcats football | |
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New England Conference co-champion | |
| Conference | New England Conference |
| Record | 6–1–1 (2–0–1New England Conference) |
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| Captain | Ralph Pino[1] |
| Home stadium | Lewis Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island State | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maine | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1946 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was anAmerican football team that represented theUniversity of New Hampshire as a member of theNew England Conference during the1946 college football season. In its first year under head coachBill Glassford, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record, outscoring their opponents 161–45. The team played its home games atLewis Field (also known as Lewis Stadium) inDurham, New Hampshire.
Due toWorld War II, the Wildcats had not fielded a team in 1945.[2] With the exception of a four-game limited schedule played in1944, this was the first football season for the Wildcats since1942, and their first eight-game season since1941.
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 28 | atColby* |
| W 13–0 | 1,000 | [3] | ||
| October 5 | Rhode Island State | W 25–12 | 6,000 | [4] | |||
| October 12 | atMaine | W 27–0 | [5] | ||||
| October 19 | Springfield* |
| L 6–14 | 7,000 | [6] | ||
| October 26 | atVermont* | W 39–0 | 4,500 | [7] | |||
| November 2 | Northeastern* |
| W 26–0 | 6,500 | [8][a] | ||
| November 9 | atBoston University* |
| W 13–7 | [9] | |||
| November 16 | Connecticut |
| T 12–12 | 6,000 | [10] | ||
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Wildcat Carmen Ragonese, selected by theBoston Yanks in the1948 NFL draft,[12] was a 1982 inductee to the university's athletic hall of fame.[13] One of his 1946 highlights was an endzone-to-endzone interception return against Rhode Island State; reported as 101 yards in contemporary newspapers,[4] it still stands as a Wildcat record, listed by the university as 104 yards.[14]