1946 Compton Tartars football | |
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Metropolitan champion Little Rose Bowl champion | |
Little Rose Bowl, W 19–0 vs.
Kilgore | |
Conference | Metropolitan Conference |
Record | 10–1 (6–1 Metropolitan) |
Head coach |
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Home stadium | Ramsaur Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Compton $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Santa Monica | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long Beach | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Los Angeles City | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bakersfield | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ventura | 1 | – | 5 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Glendale (CA) | 1 | – | 5 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pasadena | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1946 Compton Tartars football team was an American football team that represented Compton College as a member of the Metropolitan Conference during the 1946 junior college football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Tay Brown, the team compiled a 10–1 record (6–1 against conference opponents), won the Metropolitan Conference championship, defeated Kilgore in the Little Rose Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 284 to 94. [1]
The team ranked sixth nationally among small college teams in total offense with an average of 331.1 yards per game. [2] The offense was led by fullback John Finney and quarterback Bev Wallace. Finney averaged 6.3 yards per carry and was named "Player of the Year" by the All-Southern California board of football. [3] [4] In the Little Rose Bowl game, Wallace completed 11 of 16 passes for 176 yards and three touchdowns. [5] Wallace later played three seasons for the San Francisco 49ers.
Compton took five of eleven spots on the 1946 All-Metropolitan Conference football team. The honorees were Bev Wallace and John Finney at back; Robert Boyd and Gene Nordyke at end; and Fred (Floyd) Hopper at guard. [6]
Coach Tay Brown led Compton to four Little Rose Bowl games, compiled a 140–33–9 record at the school, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980. [7]
The team played its home games at Ramsaur Stadium in Compton, California.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 29 | San Diego Navy* |
| W 39–7 | [8] | |||
October 4 | at Ventura | Ventura, CA | W 13–0 | [9] | |||
October 11 | Idaho Southern Branch* |
| W 38–0 | 10,000 | [10] [11] [12] | ||
October 18 | Long Beach |
| W 20–18 | [13] [14] | |||
October 25 | Santa Monica |
| W 26–0 | 12,000 | [15] | ||
November 1 | at Bakersfield | Bakersfield, CA | W 40–25 | [16] | |||
November 8 | at Utah Branch Agricultural College* | Cedar City, UT | W 26–17 | ||||
November 18 | Glendale (CA) |
| W 19–0 | 10,000 | [17] | ||
November 22 | Pasadena |
| W 38–7 | [18] | |||
November 27 | Los Angeles City |
| L 6–19 | 12,000 | [19] | ||
December 7 | vs. Kilgore* | W 19–0 | 51,000 | [20] [5] | |||
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