1940 Fordham Rams football team

1940 Fordham Rams football
Cotton Bowl, L 12–13 vs. Texas A&M
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 12
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPolo Grounds
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 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University during the 1940 college football season. The Rams finished the regular season ranked twelfth and played in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year's Day, a 13–12 loss to sixth-ranked Texas A&M.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Rice, Grantland (January 2, 1941). "Texas Aggies outplayed, win over Fordham by 13-12 score". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 11.
  2. ^ "Texas A. and M. sneaks through". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. January 2, 1941. p. 10.
  3. ^ Super, Henry (January 2, 1941). "Rams' 'moral win' soothes tough loss". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. p. 20.