1946 Stanford Indians football team

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1946 Stanford Indians football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record6–3–1 (3–3–1 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadium Stanford Stadium
Seasons
  1942
1947  
1946 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 UCLA $ 7 0 010 1 0
Oregon State 6 1 17 1 1
USC 5 2 06 4 0
Washington 5 3 05 4 0
Stanford 3 3 16 3 1
Oregon 3 4 14 4 1
Montana 1 3 04 4 0
Washington State 1 5 11 6 1
California 1 6 02 7 0
Idaho 0 5 01 8 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1946 Stanford Indians football team was an American football team that represented Stanford University in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1946 college football season. This was the team's first season since 1942 because the team suspended play for three years due to World War II. Stanford's head coach was Marchmont Schwartz, who had coached the 1942 team as well. The team compiled a 6–3–1 record (3–3–1 against PCC opponents) and outscored all opponents by a total of 222 to 147. [1]

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Two Stanford players received first-team honors from the Associated Press (AP) and United Press on the 1946 All-Pacific Coast football team: fullback Lloyd Merriman (AP-1, UP-1) and guard Bill Hachten (AP-1, UP-1). [2] [3] Merriman ranked first in the PCC and 12th nationally with 672 net rushing yards on 142 carries, an average of 4.8 yards per carry. [4]

Stanford was ranked at No. 54 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946. [5]

The team played its home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. [6]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 Idaho W 45–015,000 [7]
October 5 San Francisco *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 33–740,000 [8]
October 12at No. 5 UCLA No. 17L 6–2690,803 [9]
October 19 Santa Clara *
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 33–2620,000 [10]
October 26 USC
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA (rivalry)
L 20–2845,000 [11]
November 2 Oregon State T 0–017,000 [12]
November 9 Washington
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
L 15–2125,000 [13]
November 16 Washington State
  • Stanford Stadium
  • Stanford, CA
W 27–26  8,000 [14]
November 23at California W 25–681,000 [15]
December 23at Hawaii *W 18–717,000 [16]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend:██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
— = Not ranked.
Week
Poll12345678Final
AP 17

After the season

The 1947 NFL Draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Indians were selected. [17]

RoundPickPlayerPositionNFL club
532 Lloyd Merriman Back Chicago Bears
13114 Bill Hachten Guard New York Giants
28261Charley WakefieldTackle Philadelphia Eagles
29268Lynn BrownsonBack Washington Redskins

[18]

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