The 1948 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented

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in the 1948 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Harvey Harman, the Queensmen compiled a 7–2 record, won the

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championship, and outscored their opponents 224 to 130. On October 16, 1948, Rutgers defeated

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, 22-6, in front of a crowd of 41,000 at

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. This was the first Rutgers victory at Princeton in 79 years of play between the two schools, ending what the

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called "the oldest jinx in intercollegiate football history." Rutgers was ranked at No. 58 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.

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