The 1948 Cal Aggies football team represented the College of Agriculture at Davis—now known as the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

—as a member of the

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(FWC) 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 ...

. Led by

Vern Hickey Vernard Benton Hickey (November 11, 1900 – July 15, 1987) was an American football, baseball, and golf coach, college athletics administrator, and local politician. He served as the head football coach at the Northern Branch of the College of Ag ...

in his ninth and final season as head coach, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a mark of 1–3 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the FWC. The team was outscored by its opponents 175 to 98 for the season. The Cal Aggies played home games at A Street field on campus in

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. In nine years under Hickey, the Cal Aggies compiled an overall record of 23–42–8, for a winning percentage of .370. The Aggies shared one conference title under Hickey, 1947.

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