1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team

The 1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1940 college football season. This was Mississippi State's only undefeated season. End Buddy Elrod was be named SEC "Player of the Year" by the Nashville Banner and be selected to several All-America teams.

1940 Mississippi State Maroons football
Orange Bowl champion
Orange Bowl, W 14–7 vs. Georgetown
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
APNo. 9
1940 record10–0–1 (4–0–1 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumScott Field
(capacity: 20,000)
1940 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Tennessee $ 5 0 010 1 0
No. 9 Mississippi State 4 0 110 0 1
Ole Miss 3 1 09 2 0
Alabama 4 2 07 2 0
Auburn 3 2 16 4 1
LSU 3 3 06 4 0
Georgia 2 3 15 4 1
Florida 2 3 05 5 0
Kentucky 1 2 25 3 2
Tulane 1 3 05 5 0
Vanderbilt 1 5 13 6 1
Georgia Tech 1 5 03 7 0
Sewanee 0 1 03 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at FloridaW 25–7
October 5Southwestern Louisiana*W 20–0
October 12at AuburnT 7–7
October 19Howard (AL)*
  • Scott Field
  • Starkville, MS
W 41–76,000[1]
October 26at NC State*W 26–10
November 2at Southwestern (TN)*No. 20Memphis, TNW 13–0
November 9at LSUNo. 19W 22–7
November 16Millsaps*No. 15
  • Scott Field
  • Starkville, MS
W 46–13
November 23No. 11 Ole MissNo. 16
W 19–0
November 30at No. 17 AlabamaNo. 11W 13–018,500[2]
January 1vs. No. 9 Georgetown*No. 11W 14–729,554
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. "Maroons deal roughly with Howard, 40 to 7". The Clarion-Ledger. October 20, 1940. Retrieved August 24, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  2. Bassett, Norman (December 1, 1940). "Maroons blank Tide 13 to 0". The Tuscaloosa News. Google News Archives. p. 6. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  3. College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015
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