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1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ22020025 ↗
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The 1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team was an American football team that represented Mississippi State College (now known as Mississippi State University) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1944 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Allyn McKeen, the Maroons compiled an overall record of 6–2, with a conference record of 3–2, and finished fifth in the SEC.

The Maroons returned to action after not playing in 1943 due to World War II. Halfback Shorty McWilliams was named the SEC Player of the Year by the Nashville Banner.

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The public source identifies “1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team” as american college football season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mississippi, State and Maroons.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mississippi, State and Maroons providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.