The 1946 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the New England Conference during the 1946 college football season.

In its first year under head coach Bill Glassford, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record, outscoring their opponents 161–45.

Due to World War II, the Wildcats had not fielded a team in 1945.

Wildcat Carmen Ragonese, selected by the Boston Yanks in the 1948 NFL draft,[12] was a 1982 inductee to the university's athletic hall of fame.

[13] One of his 1946 highlights was an endzone-to-endzone interception return against Rhode Island State; reported as 101 yards in contemporary newspapers,[4] it still stands as a Wildcat record, listed by the university as 104 yards.