1961_Temple_Owls_football_team

1961 Temple Owls football team

American college football season

The 1961 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) during the 1961 NCAA College Division football season. In its second season under head coach George Makris, the team compiled a 2–5–2 record (1–2–2 against MAC opponents) and finished seventh out of eight teams in the MAC's University Division.^[1] The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 23	at Merchant Marine*	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–12	5,000
September 30	Bucknell	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 7–8	9,500	^[2]
October 7	Muhlenberg	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	W 36–12	7,500	^[3]
October 14	Lafayette	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	T 12–12	3,000	^[4]
October 21	at Buffalo*	Rotary Field Buffalo, NY	L 3–30	6,921–6,941	^[5]
October 28	Hofstra*	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	W 14–12	6,500	^[6]
November 4	at Delaware	Delaware Stadium Newark, DE	L 0–28	6,200	^[7]
November 11	at Gettysburg	Memorial Field Gettysburg, PA	T 0–0	4,200	^[8]
November 18	Toledo*	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 14–15	5,000	^[9]
*Non-conference game

1961 Temple Owls football team

v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
University
No. 15 Rutgers x	4	–	0	–	0	9	–	0	–	0
Bucknell	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Delaware	3	–	2	–	0	4	–	4	–	0
No. 5 Lehigh	3	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Gettysburg	2	–	2	–	1	3	–	5	–	1
Temple	1	–	2	–	2	2	–	5	–	2
Lafayette	1	–	5	–	1	2	–	6	–	1
Muhlenberg	0	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
College–Northern
Susquehanna x	6	–	0	–	0	8	–	0	–	1
Albright	4	–	0	–	1	7	–	0	–	1
Moravian	4	–	1	–	1	4	–	3	–	1
Wagner	4	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Lycoming	1	–	3	–	1	1	–	6	–	1
Wilkes	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	6	–	0
Hofstra *	2	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Juniata *	1	–	2	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
Upsala *	0	–	4	–	0	0	–	7	–	0
College–Southern
Lebanon Valley x	5	–	1	–	0	6	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	2	–	0
Western Maryland	4	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Dickinson	5	–	3	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Pennsylvania Military	5	–	3	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Johns Hopkins	2	–	3	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Ursinus	2	–	5	–	0	2	–	5	–	0
Drexel	1	–	5	–	1	2	–	5	–	1
Haverford	0	–	6	–	1	0	–	6	–	1
West Chester *	0	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall *	0	–	3	–	0	1	–	7	–	0

x – Division champion/co-champions * – Ineligible for championship due to insufficient conference games Rankings from AP Poll