1944 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1944 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football
LIC champion
Conference	Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference
Record	5–4 (3–1 LIC)
Head coach	Louis Whitman (3rd season)
Home stadium	McNaspy Stadium
Seasons← 1943 1945 →

The 1944 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference during the 1944 college football season. In their third year under head coach Louis Whitman, the team compiled a 5–4 record.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result
September 22		La Garde General Hospital*	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	W 53–0
September 30	8:30 p.m.	Keesler Field*	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	L 0–13
October 7		Arkansas A&M*	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	L 6–18
October 14		at Louisiana Tech	Tech Stadium Ruston, LA	W 15–0
October 21		Northwestern State	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	W 19–7
November 4		Millsaps*	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	L 0–19
November 11		at Lake Charles AAF*	Lake Charles, LA	W 24–0
November 18		Louisiana Tech	McNaspy Stadium Lafayette, LA	L 0–7
November 25		at Northwestern State	Demon Stadium Natchitoches, LA	W 7–6
*Non-conference game

"2019 Louisiana Football Media Guide" (PDF). Louisiana Athletics Communications Office. 2019. p. 96. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
Perrault, Estelle, ed. (1945). "Athletics". L'Acadien. University of Southwestern Louisiana. pp. 120–124. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
"SLI Will Face Big Opposition On Saturday". The Daily Advertiser. Lafayette, Louisiana. September 29, 1944. p. 8. Retrieved April 13, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
"Keesler Field Airmen Defeat Southwestern". The Daily Advertiser. Lafayette, Louisiana. October 1, 1944. p. 10. Retrieved April 13, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
"Southwestern wins from Tech, 15 to 0". Monroe Morning World. October 15, 1944. Retrieved June 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
"SLI defeated by gridders from Millsaps". The Daily Advertiser. November 6, 1944. Retrieved August 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
"Southwestern downed by La. Tech Bulldogs". The Daily Advertiser. November 20, 1944. Retrieved June 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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