The 1946 Chattanooga Moccasins football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented the University of Chattanooga (now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) as an independent 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 its 16th year under head coach Scrappy Moore, the team compiled a 5–5 record. The Moccasins ranked 13th nationally in total offense with an average of 329.9 yards per game. Back Gene "Choo Choo" Roberts ranked second in the country with 1,113 rushing yards. Roberts was also the leading scorer among major college players with 117 points scored on 18 touchdowns and nine extra points. Chattanooga was ranked at No. 65 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.

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