1948 Northwestern Wildcats football team


The 1948 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University in the 1948 Big Nine Conference football season. The Wildcats won their first Rose Bowl in school history.

Season

Northwestern finished the season with an 8-2 record, losing only to perennial powerhouses Michigan, 28-0, and Notre Dame, 17-12. Northwestern blanked UCLA, 19–0, Purdue, 21–0, and Syracuse, 48–0. NU rallied from three turnovers and a 16-point deficit to defeat Minnesota, 19–16, and beat Ohio State, 21–7, Wisconsin, 16–7, and Illinois, 20–7. Big Nine Conference rules prevented conference champion Michigan from making a successive trip to the Rose Bowl, so second-place Northwestern won the bid instead.

Schedule

1949 NFL Draft

Awards and honors

  1. 10 Bob Nelson
  2. 11 Loran "PeeWee" Day
  3. 14 Gene Miller
  4. 15 Ed Tunnicliff
  5. 16 Tom Worthington
  6. 19 Bob Meeder
  7. 20 Lloyd Hawkinson
  8. 21 Don Burson
  9. 22 Frank Aschenbrenner
  10. 23 Pat Keefe
  11. 25 John Yungwirth
  12. 26 Jim Farrar
  13. 29 Dick Flowers
  14. 30 Art Murakowski
  15. 32 Armandy Cureau
  16. 33 Ralph Rossi
  17. 34 Gasper Perricone
  18. 36 George Hlsbasko
  19. 37 George Sundheim
  20. 42 Johnny Miller
  21. 54 Alex Sarkisian.
  22. 55 Chuck Petter
  23. 56 Ray Wietecha
  24. 57 Dick Price
  25. 60 Lawrence "Fatso" Day
  26. 61 Francis De Pauw
  27. 62 Richard Anderson
  28. 63 Bob Nowicki
  29. 67 Ed Nemeth
  30. 68 Jim Parseigan
  31. 69 LeRoy Pantera
  32. 70 Joe Sewell
  33. 73 Bill Ford
  34. 71 Bill Forman
  35. 74 Steve Sawle
  36. 75 Rudy Cernoch
  37. 77 George Maddock
  38. 79 Dick Eggers
  39. 80 Charles Hagmann
  40. 82 Burton Keddie
  41. 83 Don Stonesifer,
  42. 85 Joe Zuravleff
  43. 87 Al Thomas
  44. 88 Littrell Clark
  45. 97 Paul Balog