1942 Bucknell Bison football team

The 1942 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Al Humphreys, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record.^[1]

1942 Bucknell Bison football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–2–1
Head coach	Al Humphreys (6th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium
Seasons ← 1941 1943 →

1942 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Williams			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State			–					6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College			–					8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					6	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne			–					6	–	3	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	3	–	0
Boston University			–					4	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Princeton			–					3	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	3
Columbia			–					3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	6	–	1
Drexel			–					2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan			–					2	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

Bucknell was ranked at No. 124 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.^[2]

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Lebanon Valley	Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	W 7–0		[3]
October 3	at Penn State	New Beaver Field State College, PA	L 7–14	10,303	[4]
October 9	at Temple	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	T 7–7		[5]
October 17	at Rutgers	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	L 7–9		[6]
October 24	at Boston University	Nickerson Field Weston, MA	W 13–7		[7]
October 31	Lafayette	Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	W 13–7	7,000	[8]
November 7	Gettysburg	Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	W 7–6		[9]
November 13	at Case	Shaw Stadium East Cleveland, OH	W 21–6		[10]
November 26	at Franklin & Marshall	Williamson Field Lancaster, PA	W 27–0	8,000	[11]
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