| Year: | 1946 |
| Team: | Rutgers Queensmen |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Middle Three Conference |
| Short Conf: | Middle Three |
| Record: | 7–2 |
| Conf Record: | 2–0 |
| Head Coach: | Harvey Harman |
| Hc Year: | 5th |
| Champion: | Middle Three champion |
The 1946 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1946 college football season. Rutgers was in its fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Harvey Harman. Harman had coached Rutgers from 1938 to 1941, but missed the 1942 to 1945 seasons while serving as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.[1] The 1946 team compiled a 7–2 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored its opponents 252 to 48. The team's only losses came against Columbia (7–13) and Princeton (7–14).[2] [3]
Rutgers was ranked at No. 49 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.[4]