1943 Temple Owls football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–6
Head coach
Home stadiumTemple Stadium
1943 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College    4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 0
Rochester    6 1 0
No. 11 Army    7 2 1
Holy Cross    6 2 0
Tufts    6 2 0
No. 20 Penn    6 2 1
Brown    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 1
Penn State    5 3 1
Bucknell    6 4 0
Cornell    6 4 0
Harvard    2 2 1
Yale    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 5 0
Temple    2 6 0
CCNY    1 3 1
Princeton    1 6 0
Carnegie Tech    0 4 1
Columbia    0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Ray Morrison, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 163 to 65.[1] The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Temple ranked 122nd among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 59.5.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25VMIW 27–010,000[3]
October 2at Swarthmore
W 13–6
October 9at No. 3 ArmyL 0–51
October 16at UrsinusCollegeville, PAL 6–10
October 22Bucknell
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–75,000[4]
November 6at Holy CrossL 6–42
November 13at Penn StateL 0–134,142
November 20Villanova
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–34
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1943 Temple Owls Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. "10,000 see Temple eleven win, 27–0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 25, 1943. Retrieved January 3, 2022 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Bucknell Edges Out Temple in Last Period, 7-6". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 23, 1943. p. 14 via Newspapers.com.
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