[1][2] Clarence Munn was the first-year head coach, Ralph H. Young was the athletic director, and Robert McCurry was the team captain.
The three assistants (Duffy Daugherty, Forest Evashevski, Kip Taylor) were all future head coaches.
In December 1946, after Charlie Bachman resigned, Michigan State hired Munn as its head football coach.
[4] The Spartans began the Munn era with a 55–0 loss to in-state rival 1947 Michigan team.
[6] At the end of the 1947 season, Tommy Devine wrote in the Detroit Free Press that Munn had "restored athletic 'peace' to Michigan State.