The 1946 Bethune–Cookman Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Bethune Cookman College as a member of the

Southeastern Athletic Conference The Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that existed from 1929 to 1961. It was known as the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association ...

(SEAC) during the

1946 college football season The 1946 college football season was the 78th 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 ...

. In their first season under head coach

Bunky Matthews Rudolph G. "Bunky" Matthews (August 14, 1915 – September 28, 1976) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Bethune–Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach, or simply Da ...

, the team compiled an 8–1–1 record, held opponent to an average of 4.5 points per game, and outscored all opponents by a total of 283 to 45. The Dickinson System rated Bethune-Cookman in a tie for No. 12 among the black college football teams for 1946. The team played its home games in

Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach, or simply Daytona, is a coastal Resort town, resort-city in east-central Florida. Located on the eastern edge of Volusia County, Florida, Volusia County near the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic coastline, its population ...

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