1942 Massachusetts State Aggies football team

American college football season

1942 Massachusetts State Aggies football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–5
Head coach	Walter Hargesheimer (2nd season)
Home stadium	Alumni Field
Seasons ← 1941 1945 →

1942 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Williams		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College		–		8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo		–		6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	2	–	1
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	3	–	1
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth		–		5	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	3	–	0
Boston University		–		4	–	5	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	1
Princeton		–		3	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	3
Columbia		–		3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	5	–	0
Harvard		–		2	–	6	–	1
Drexel		–		2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan		–		2	–	6	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Massachusetts State Aggies football team represented Massachusetts State College in the 1942 college football season. The team was coached by Walter Hargesheimer. Mass State finished the season with a record of 2–5.

Massachusetts State was ranked at No. 458 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.^[1]

The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1942 season was the team's last before disbanding during World War II.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 3	at Connecticut	Gardner Dow Athletic Fields Storrs, CT (rivalry)	L 0–26
October 10	at Vermont	Centennial Field Burlington, VT	L 6–13	^[2]
October 17	Rhode Island State	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	L 6–21
October 24	Worcester Tech	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 18–6
October 31	at Amherst	Pratt Field Amherst, MA	L 0–43
November 7	Clarkson	Alumni Field Amherst, MA	W 13–9
November 14	at Tufts	Tufts Oval Somerville, MA	L 0–7

References

^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Cats eye Union club after first triumph". Burlington Daily News. October 12, 1942. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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