1992 WPI Engineers football team

{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1992

| team = WPI Engineers

| sport = football

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| conference = Freedom Football Conference

| short_conf = FFC

| record = 9–2

| conf_record = 5–0

| head_coach = Jack Siedlecki

| hc_year = 5th

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| stadium = Alumni Stadium

| champion = FFC champion

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The 1992 WPI Engineers football team represented Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 1992 NCAA Division III football season.{{cite web |title=Final 1992 Division III Cumulative Football Statistics Report - Worcester Polytechnic Institute |url=https://athletics.wpi.edu/sports/fball/archives_folder/1992_Football_Stats_and_Results.pdf |website=athletics.wpi.edu}} It marked the Engineers' 103rd overall season and the team played its home games in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were led by fifth-year head coach Jack Siedlecki. They were a member of the Freedom Football Conference (FFC). The Engineers finished the season 9–2 and earned the school's first-ever bid to the NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs.{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegram.com/news/20170926/jennifer-toland-25-years-later-wpi-to-celebrate-sports-triumvirate|title=Jennifer Toland: 25 years later, WPI to celebrate sports triumvirate|last=Toland|first=Jennifer|date=2017-09-26|work=telegram.com|access-date=2017-10-02|language=en}}

Schedule

{{CFB schedule

| poll = New England Region

| timezone = Eastern

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = September 11

| w/l = w

| nonconf = y

| rank =

| opponent = Worcester State

| site_stadium = Alumni Stadium

| site_cityst = Worcester, MA

| score = 56–0

| attend = 3,208

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = September 19

| w/l = l

| nonconf = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Union

| site_stadium = Alumni Stadium

| site_cityst = Worcester, MA

| score = 20–34

| attend = 3,650

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = September 26

| w/l = w

| nonconf = y

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = UMass Lowell

| site_stadium = Cawley Memorial Stadium

| site_cityst = Lowell, MA

| score = 13–9

| attend = 631

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 3

| w/l = w

| nonconf = y

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = RPI

| gamename = Transit Trophy Game

| site_stadium = '86 Field

| site_cityst = Troy, NY

| score = 28–14

| attend = 1,400

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 10

| w/l = w

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Norwich

| site_stadium = Sabine Field

| site_cityst = Northfield, VT

| score = 56–6

| attend = 2,467

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 17

| w/l = w

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Merchant Marine

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| site_cityst = Kings Point, NY

| score = 17–15

| attend = 2,447

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 24

| w/l = w

| nonconf = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Randolph–Macon

| site_stadium = Alumni Stadium

| site_cityst = Worcester, MA

| score = 45–7

| attend = 812

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = October 31

| w/l = w

| nonconf = y

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Ursinus

| site_stadium = Patterson Field

| site_cityst = Collegeville, PA

| score = 24–10

| attend = 823

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = November 7

| w/l = w

| rank = 1

| opponent = Coast Guard

| site_stadium = Alumni Stadium

| site_cityst = Worcester, MA

| score = 28–10

| attend = 600

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = November 14

| w/l = w

| away = y

| rank = 1

| opponent = Plymouth State

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| site_cityst = Plymouth, NH

| score = 43–20

| attend = 987

}}

|{{CFB schedule entry

| date = November 21

| w/l = l

| nonconf = y

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| opponent = Rowan

| site_stadium = Division III Regional Playoff Game

| site_cityst = Glassboro, NJ

| score = 14–41

| attend =

}}

Schedule Source:

Awards and honors

=Weekly awards=

Freedom Football Conference Offensive Player of the Week

Dave Ceppetelli - Week of September 13, 1992The Students of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, "Newspeak Volume 20, Issue 18, September 22, 1992" (1992). Newspeak All Issues. 479.

http://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/newspeak/479

Freedom Football Conference Offensive Player of the Week

Peter Perivolarakis - Week of September 13, 1992

=Annual awards=

Freedom Football Conference Rookie of the Year

Ernie Ansah{{Cite web|url=http://athletics.wpi.edu/navbar_white/alumni/athletics_hall_of_fame/2010-2019/2010/Ernie_Ansah|title=- Ernie Ansah '96 - WPI Hall of Fame - Class of 2010 - WPI Athletics - WPI Athletics|website=athletics.wpi.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-02}}

References

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