1946 Maryville Scots football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1946
| team = Maryville Scots
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Independent
| record = 9–1
| head_coach = Lombe Honaker
| hc_year = 23rd
| captain =
| stadium =
| bowl = Tangerine Bowl
| bowl_result = L 6–31 vs. Catawba
}}
{{1946 Southern non-major college football independents records}}
The 1946 Maryville Scots football team represented the Maryville College during the 1946 college football season.{{Cite web|date=2015-09-15|title=Team Records Game by Game|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_current.php?teamid=1896&year=1946|access-date=2020-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915062838/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_current.php?teamid=1896&year=1946|archive-date=2015-09-15}} Under 23rd-year head coach Lombe Honaker, the Scots compiled a 9–1, went undefeated in the regular season for the first and only time in program history, shut out five of their ten opponents, and kept all but one from scoring more than 7 points, and outscored their opponents by a total of 217 to 52. They were invited to the first annual Tangerine Bowl, where they lost to Catawba, 31–6, on New Year's Day.
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 21
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Hiwassee Tigers|title=Hiwassee}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Maryville, TN
| score = 33–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 28
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs|title=Tennessee Wesleyan}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Maryville, TN
| score = 14–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 5
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Centre Colonels|title=Centre}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Maryville, TN
| score = 19–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 19
| w/l = w
| opponent = East Tennessee State
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Johnson City, TN
| score = 25–2
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 26
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Emory and Henry Wasps|title=Emory and Henry}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Emory, VA
| score = 19–6
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 1
| w/l = w
| opponent = Middle Tennessee
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Maryville, TN
| score = 20–6
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 9
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Sewanee Tigers|title=Sewanee}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Sewanee, TN
| score = 7–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 16
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Carson–Newman Eagles|title=Carson–Newman}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Jefferson City, TN
| score = 33–7
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 22
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1946|team=Tusculum Pioneers|title=Tusculum}}
| site_stadium =
| site_cityst = Maryville, TN
| score = 41–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = January 1, 1947
| w/l = l
| opponent = Catawba
| site_stadium = Orlando Stadium
| site_cityst = Orlando, FL
| gamename = Tangerine Bowl
| score = 6–31
| attend = 9,000
}}
}}