1942 Temple Owls football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–3
Head coach
Home stadiumTemple Stadium
Seasons
← 1941
1943 →
1942 Eastern college football independents records
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 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its third season under head coach Ray Morrison, the team compiled a 2–5–3 record and was outscored by a total of 135 to 48.[1]

Temple was ranked at No. 94 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Georgetown
L 0–722,000[3]
October 2VMI
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 7–615,000[4]
October 9Bucknell
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 7–7[5]
October 16at SMU
T 6–6
October 23North Carolina Pre-Flight
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–3420,000[6]
October 31Michigan State
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 7–7
November 7at No. 5 Boston College
L 0–2824,000
November 14Holy Cross
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–13
November 21Oklahoma
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–75,000
November 28Villanova
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–20
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1942 Temple Owls Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Stan Baumgartner (September 26, 1942). "Georgetown Recovers Temple Fumble To Win, 7-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 23, 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Temple beats V.M.I., 7–6, in grid thriller". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 3, 1942. Retrieved January 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Bucknell And Temple Tie, 7-7 In See-Saw Struggle". Sunbury Daily Item. October 10, 1942. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Cadets maul Owls, 34–0". Reading Eagle. Reading, Pennsylvania. The United Press. October 24, 1942. p. 10. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
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