1966 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team

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1966 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football
MAC University Division champion
Conference Middle Atlantic Conference
DivisionUniversity Division
Record6–3 (6–0 MAC)
Head coach
CaptainEd Sand
Home stadium Delaware Stadium
Seasons
  1965
1967  
1966 Middle Atlantic Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
University Division
Delaware x 6 0 06 3 0
Gettysburg 4 2 07 2 0
Temple 2 2 06 3 0
Lafayette 2 3 03 6 0
Bucknell 2 3 04 5 0
Hofstra 1 3 02 8 0
Lehigh 0 4 00 9 0
Northern College Division
Wilkes x 7 0 08 0 0
Upsala 6 1 06 2 0
Delaware Valley 4 2 05 3 0
Lycoming 4 3 04 4 0
Moravian 4 4 14 4 1
Albright 4 4 04 5 0
Juniata 3 3 04 4 0
Wagner 1 3 12 6 1
Susquehanna * 1 2 03 6 0
Southern College Division
Swarthmore x 6 0 16 0 1
Drexel 4 1 06 1 1
Franklin & Marshall 3 2 23 3 2
Dickinson 4 3 14 3 1
Western Maryland 2 3 04 5 0
Ursinus 2 4 12 5 1
Muhlenberg 2 6 12 6 1
Lebanon Valley 2 6 02 6 0
Pennsylvania Military 2 6 02 7 0
Haverford 1 5 01 6 0
Johns Hopkins 0 4 20 6 2
West Chester * 0 0 08 1 0
  • x Division champion/co-champions
  • * – Ineligible for championship due to insufficient conference games

The 1966 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware during the 1966 NCAA College Division football season. Delaware won the championship of the Middle Atlantic Conference, University Division.

In its first season under head coach Tubby Raymond, the team finished with a 6–3 record (6–0 against MAC University opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 201 to 156. Ed Sand was the team captain. [1]

Despite sweeping their divisional opponents – Delaware's only losses were against "major college" programs – the Blue Hens did not receive the Lambert Cup, signifying the best football team from a mid-sized college in the East. Instead, the award went to Gettysburg, a team that Delaware had beaten both on the field and in the MAC University Division standings. Gettysburg had not been the top choice of any of the selectors, but were mentioned among the top 10 on each of the 10 ballots, whereas Delaware had been named No. 1 on five of the ballots, but was entirely omitted from two of them. [2]

The team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24 Hofstra W 35–1310,140 [3]
October 1at Gettysburg No. 13
W 3–01,600–1,900 [4]
October 8 Lafayette No. 11
  • Delaware Stadium
  • Newark, DE
W 23–1510,000–10,024 [5] [6]
October 15at Villanova *No. 10L 14–1611,975 [7]
October 22 Lehigh No. 14
  • Delaware Stadium
  • Newark, DE (rivalry)
W 41–013,132 [8]
October 29at No. 12 Temple No. 13W 20–1413,000 [9]
November 5at Buffalo *No. 6L 6–365,434 [10]
November 12at Boston University No. 14L 14–425,000 [11]
November 19 Bucknell
  • Delaware Stadium
  • Newark, DE
W 45–2010,099 [12]

[13]

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