1956 New Haven State Owls football team

The 1956 New Haven State Owls football team was an American football team that represented New Haven State Teachers College (now known as Southern Connecticut State University) as an independent during the 1956 NAIA football season. In their ninth season under head coach Jess Dow, the Owls compiled a 9–0 record. It remains the only perfect season in the history of the Southern Connecticut Owls football program. The team broke the school's single-game scoring record twice during the 1956 season, first with 50 points against the Quonset Naval Air Station and again the following week with 51 points against.

The team played its home games at Bowen Field in New Haven, Connecticut.