The 1948 Toledo Rockets football team was an

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team that represented

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during the

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. In their first season under head coach

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, the Rockets compiled a 5–6 record, were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 225 to 206, and defeated

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, 27–14, in the third postseason Glass Bowl game. On October 2, 1948, Chuck Hardy set a Toledo school record that still stands with a 100-yard kickoff return against John Carroll. On October 9, 1948, the Rockets renewed the

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after a 13-year hiatus. Toledo lost to Bowling Green, 21-6, in the 1948 game. During the 1948 season, a Toledo football game was televised for the first time on WSPD-TV13 (later WTVG). The 1948 team captains were Mardo Hamilton and Mike Carman. Toledo was ranked at No. 139 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.

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