The 1948 Boston University Terriers 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
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
as an independent during the
1948 college football season
The 1948 college football season finished with two unbeaten and untied teams: Michigan and Clemson. Michigan was the first-place choice for the majority of the voters (192 of 333) in the AP Poll, but did not play in the postseason because of a no ...
. In its second season under head coach
Aldo Donelli
Aldo Teo "Buff" Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football player and coach, association football, soccer player, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Duquesne University from 193 ...
, the team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 127 to 102.
Boston University was ranked at No. 102 in the final
Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.
Schedule
References
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Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...
Boston University Terriers football seasons
Boston University Terriers football : ''For information on all Boston University sports, see Boston University Terriers''
The Boston University Terriers football team was the American football team for Boston University located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school's first football te ...