1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team


The 1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1946 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Higgins and played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania. The team is notable for voting to cancel a scheduled game against the Miami Hurricanes rather that playing without African American players.

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The scheduled game against the Miami Hurricanes was cancelled in early November by unanimous vote of the Penn State team. Miami officials felt that Penn State fielding their African American players Wallace Triplett and Dennis Hoggard in Miami could have led to "unfortunate incidents", and the team chose to cancel the game rather than playing without Triplett and Hoggard.