The 1943 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an

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team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the

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) as a member the

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during the

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. The Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference has no league play in 1943 because of

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. Led by second-year head coach

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, the Bulldogs compiled a record of 5–0–1, and outscored their opponents 172 to 40. In the

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, Southwestern Louisiana defeated Arkansas A&M on a muddy field, a team that had tied them 20–20 earlier in the season. The Bulldogs played their home games at

McNaspy Stadium McNaspy Stadium was a 4,500-seat stadium built on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then called Southwestern Louisiana Institute) built in 1940, and remained the home for the school's football team until 1971. The stadium was l ...

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. In the final

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, Southwestern ranked 12th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 104.3.

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