In their first season under head coach Spud Lewis, the Dons compiled a 2–6 record and were outscored by a combined total of 90 to 77.
[1] Spud Lewis was hired as the team's head football coach in January 1932.
He had been a star football player at Stanford and had most recently served as an assistant coach under Dick Hanley at Northwestern.
Lewis replaced Jimmy Needles, who coached the football team from 1924 to 1931.
This college football 1932 season article is a stub.