The 1952 Shippensburg Red Raiders football team was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

team that represented Shippensburg State Teachers College (now known as Shippensburg University) in the Pennsylvania State Teachers College Conference (PSTCC) during the

1952 college football season The 1952 college football season was the 84th season of intercollegiate football in the United States. It ended with Oklahoma halfback Billy Vessels winning the Heisman Trophy and Notre Dame halfback Johnny Lattner winning the Maxwell Award. ...

. In their sixth year under head coach Vinton Rambo, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–0 record (5–0 in conference games), shut out four of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 266 to 20. 1952 was Shippensburg's first of two consecutive

perfect season A perfect season is a sports season, including any requisite playoff portion, in which a team remains and finishes undefeated and untied. The feat is extremely rare at the professional level of any team sport, but has occurred more commonly at th ...

s, as the 1953 team went 8–0. Shippensburg had a 20-game winning streak that ran from November 3, 1951, to October 9, 1954.

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