1944 Delaware State Hornets football team
Introduction


The **1944 Delaware State Hornets football team** represented the State College for Colored Students—now known as [Delaware State University](/wiki/Delaware_State_University "Delaware State University")—in the [1944 college football season](/wiki/1944_college_football_season "1944 college football season") as an independent. Led by first\-year head coach [Tom Conrad](/wiki/Tom_Conrad "Tom Conrad"), the Hornets compiled a 2–3 record. The team's captain was Henry Clay Aldridge.  Conrad had been hired the year before, but Delaware State did not field a football team in 1943\.


Did Delaware State University have any notable victories in 1944?