1939 Detroit Titans football team

1939 Detroit Titans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumUniversity of Detroit Stadium
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
1939 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Central Michigan     8 1 0
No. 13 Notre Dame     7 2 0
Ohio     6 3 0
Detroit     5 3 1
Akron     5 4 0
Cincinnati     4 3 2
Ohio Wesleyan     5 4 1
Marquette     4 4 0
Michigan State     4 4 1
Dayton     4 4 1
Michigan State Normal     3 3 1
Wayne     4 5 0
Xavier     3 5 1
Western State Teachers (MI)     2 6 1
Miami (OH)     1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the 1939 college football season. Detroit outscored its opponents by a combined total of 149 to 90 and finished with a 5–3–1 record in its 15th year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Gus Dorais.[1]

Detroit was not ranked in the final AP poll, but it was ranked at No. 41 in the Williamson System ratings,[2] and at No. 44 in the final Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

  1. ^ "1939 Detroit Mercy Titans Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ Paul Williamson (December 8, 1941). "Texas Aggies Ranked Nation's Top". The Atlanta Constitution. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.