1940 Princeton Tigers football team

1940 Princeton Tigers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainHowie Stanley
Home stadiumPalmer Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
La Salle     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 1940 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its third season under head coach Tad Wieman, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 119 to 112.[1][2]

Howie Stanley was Princeton's team captain.[3] He also received the John Prentiss Poe Cup, the team's highest award.[4] Halfback Dave Allerdice was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1940 All-Eastern college football team,[5] and by the Central Press Association as a third-team player on the All-America team.[6]

Princeton was ranked at No. 58 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[7]

Princeton played its 1940 home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.

  1. ^ "1940 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  2. ^ "2008 Princeton Tigers Football Media Guide" (PDF). Princeton University. p. 127. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  3. ^ "Princeton Lettermen Name Tackle Tierney '39 Captain". Chicago Tribune. November 23, 1938. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton's Poe Cup Awarded To Worth". The Paterson Morning Call. December 6, 1939. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Bucknell, Nittany Stars All-Eastern Runners Up". Sunbury Daily Item. December 5, 1940. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Central Press All-American Team, 1940". Sunbury Daily Item. December 5, 1940. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.

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