The 1942 Massachusetts State Aggies football team represented
Massachusetts State College
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
in the
1942 college football season
The 1942 college football season was the 74th season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six C ...
. 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.
The team played its home games at
Alumni Field in
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst () is a New England town, town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,263, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (althoug ...
. The 1942 season was the team's last before disbanding during
World War II.
Schedule
References
Massachusetts State
UMass Minutemen football seasons
Massachusetts State Aggies football
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