The 1952 Wichita Shockers football team, sometimes known as the Wheatshockers, 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 Wichita University (now known as
Wichita State University) as a member of the
Missouri Valley Conference during the
1952 college football season
The 1952 college football season ended with the unbeaten Michigan State Spartans (9–0) and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (12–0) each claiming a national championship from different polls. Michigan State finished first according to two of the "w ...
. In its third and final season under head coach
Robert S. Carlson, the team compiled a 3–6–1 record (0–3 against conference opponents), finished last out of five teams in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 235 to 159.
The team played its home games at Veterans Field, now known as
Cessna Stadium.
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The Wichita State Shockers football team was the college football program of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The Shockers fielded a team from 1897 to 1986. They played their home games at Cessna Stadium and were members of the Misso ...