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Perfect season? Bowl bid? ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ football? Yes, anything seemed possible in post-World War II America, even an undefeated Bobcat football season. And by virtue of its 7-0 record in 1946, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ earned a bid to the inaugural Glass Bowl versus the University of Toledo on Pearl Harbor Day. The first postwar ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ team was a veteran squad quite literally. With servicemen swarming back to colleges nationally, athletic rosters often included older players, and the ’46 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ team was no exception. Story and photos from the glorious 1946 season, as published in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Magazine in 1996: www.bates.edu/pubs/mag/96-Fall/sports-notes.html