1946 New Hampshire Wildcats football team


The 1946 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the New England Conference during the 1946 college football season. In its first year under head coach Bill Glassford, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record, outscoring their opponents 161–45. The team played its home games at Lewis Field in Durham, New Hampshire.
Due to World War II, the Wildcats had not fielded a team in 1945. With the exception of a four-game limited schedule played in 1944, this was the first football season for the Wildcats since 1942, and their first eight-game season since 1941.

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Wildcat Carmen Ragonese, selected by the Boston Yanks in the 1948 NFL Draft, was a 1982 inductee to the university's athletic hall of fame. One of his 1946 highlights was an endzone-to-endzone interception return against Rhode Island State; reported as 101 yards in contemporary newspapers, it still stands as a Wildcat record, listed by the university as 104 yards.