1948 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1948 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1948 college football season. The Vandals were led by second-year head coach Dixie Howell and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference.

1948 Idaho Vandals football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–6 (1–5 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumNeale Stadium
1948 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 California ^ + 6 0 010 1 0
No. 9 Oregon + 7 0 09 2 0
USC 4 2 06 3 1
Washington State 4 3 14 5 1
Stanford 3 4 04 6 0
Oregon State 2 3 25 4 3
Washington 2 5 12 7 1
UCLA 2 6 03 7 0
Idaho 1 5 03 6 0
Montana 0 3 03 7 0
  • + Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Selected as Rose Bowl representative
Rankings from AP Poll

Idaho was ranked at No. 90 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.

Home games were played on campus at Neale Stadium in Moscow, with one game in Boise at Public School Field.

Idaho was 3–6 overall and won one of their six PCC games; future schedules had fewer conference matchups. A night game was played in late September in Salt Lake City, a loss to Utah.

The Vandals' losing streak in the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State reached twenty games, with a 14–19 loss in Pullman on October 30. Idaho tied the Cougars two years later, but the winless streak continued until 1954.

In the rivalry game with Montana in Moscow a week earlier, Idaho won 39–0 to regain the Little Brown Stein. Montana won it back two years later with a one-point upset, then the Vandals won eight straight, through 1959.

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