1946 Rutgers Queensmen football team

The 1946 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1946 college football season. Rutgers was in its fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Harvey Harman. Harman had coached Rutgers from 1938 to 1941, but missed the 1942 to 1945 seasons while serving as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.^[1] The 1946 team compiled a 7–2 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored its opponents 252 to 48. The team's only losses came against Columbia (7–13) and Princeton (7–14).^[2]

1946 Rutgers Queensmen football
Middle Three champion
Conference	Middle Three Conference
Record	7–2 (2–0 Middle Three)
Head coach	Harvey Harman (5th season)
Seasons ← 1945 1947 →

1946 Middle Three Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Rutgers $	2	–	0	–	0			7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette	1	–	1	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Lehigh	0	–	2	–	0			2	–	6	–	0
$ – Conference champion

Rutgers was ranked at No. 49 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	at Columbia*	Baker Field New York, NY	L 7–13	23,000	[4]
October 5	Johns Hopkins*	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 53–0	7,000	[5]
October 12	at NYU*	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 26–0	10,000	[6]
October 19	at Princeton*	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 7–14	45,000	[7]
October 26	George Washington*	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 25–13	8,000	[8]
November 2	at No. 17 Harvard*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 13–0	12,000	[9]
November 9	Lafayette	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 41–2	12,000	[10]
November 16	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA	W 55–6	7,000	[11]
November 23	Bucknell*	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 25–0	15,000	[12]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game