The 1946 Washington State Cougars 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 wi ...

team that represented

Washington State College Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant univer ...

in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) 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 Co ...

. Second-year head coach Phil Sarboe led the Cougars to a 1–6–1 overall record (1–5–1 in PCC, eighth). Washington State was ranked at No. 89 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946. All three home games were played in October, on campus at Rogers Field in Pullman.

Schedule

NFL Draft

Four Cougars were selected in the 1947 NFL Draft, held on December 16, 1946.

References

External links

Game program: Idaho at WSC
– October 5, 1946
Game program: Washington at WSC
– October 12, 1946
Game program: Oregon State at WSC
– October 26, 1946

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