The 1962 UMass Redmen football team represented the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

in the 1962 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the

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. The team was coached by

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and played its home games at Alumni Field in

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. UMass finished the season with a record of 6–3 overall and 4–1 in conference play.

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