1940 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1940 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1940 college football season. The team compiled a 3–4–1 record under head coach Charley Bowser.[1]

1940 Pittsburgh Panthers football
ConferenceIndependent
1940 record3–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
(capacity: 56,500)
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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28at Ohio StateL 7–3052,877
October 5MissouriW 19–13
October 12SMU
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
T 7–7
October 19No. 11 Fordham
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 12–2440,000[2]
November 9Carnegie Tech
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 6–0
November 16No. 11 Nebraska
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 7–9
November 23No. 20 Penn State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 20–730,083
November 30at No. 20 DukeL 7–1227,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1940 Pittsburgh Panthers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. May 21, 2016.
  2. Effrat, Louis (October 20, 1940). "Pitt Bows in Storm". New York Times. p. 81.
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