1940 Bucknell Bison football team

The 1940 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Al Humphreys, the team compiled a 4–2–2 record.[1]

1940 Bucknell Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
1940 record4–2–2
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
1940 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College    11 0 0
Duquesne    7 1 0
No. 14 Penn    6 1 1
Penn State    6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham    7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell    6 2 0
Princeton    5 2 1
Columbia    5 2 2
Brown    6 3 1
Bucknell    4 2 2
Boston University    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 0
Hofstra    4 3 0
Harvard    3 2 3
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Temple    4 4 1
Tufts    4 4 0
Vermont    4 4 0
Villanova    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 4 1
Syracuse    3 4 1
Buffalo    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Manhattan    3 6 0
Providence    3 6 0
NYU    2 7 0
Yale    1 7 0
Army    1 7 1
CCNY    1 5 1
Massachusetts State    1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5at Penn StateL 0–912,091
October 12UrsinusW 33–7
October 18at Western MarylandT 0–04,000
November 2Temple
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lewisburg, PA
L 7–10
November 9at George WashingtonT 0–07,000[2]
November 16at Gettysburg
W 20–7
November 23Muhlenberg
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 6–0
November 28at AlbrightReading, PAW 7–0
  • Homecoming

References

  1. "2018 Bucknell Football Media Guide" (PDF). Bucknell University. p. 134.
  2. "Bisons hold G. Washington to 0–0 score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 10, 1940. Retrieved February 15, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
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