The 1949 Lewis Flyers football team represented Lewis College—now known as

Lewis University Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...

—as a member of the

Badger-Illini Conference The Badger-Illini Conference (known as the Tri-State Intercollegiate Conference from 1932 to 1939 and the Badger State Conference or Badger State Intercollegiate Conference from 1940 to 1947) was an intercollegiate athletic conference that existed ...

during the

1949 college football season The 1949 college football season finished with four teams that were unbeaten and untied-- Notre Dame, Oklahoma, California, and Army had won all their games at season's end. Notre Dame, however, was the overwhelming choice for national champion ...

. Led by second-year head coach Ray McLean, the Flyers compiled a perfect overall record of 9–0 with a mark of 6–0 in conference play, winning the Badger-Illini title. Lewis employed a

T formation In American football, a T formation (frequently called the full house formation in modern usage, sometimes the Robust T) is a formation used by the offensive team in which three running backs line up in a row about five yards behind the quarterba ...

on offense.

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