1941 Missouri Tigers football team

1941 Missouri Tigers football
Big 6 champion
Sugar Bowl, L 0–2 vs. Fordham
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Ranking
APNo. 7
Record8–2 (5–0 Big 6)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Big Six Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 7 Missouri $ 5 0 0 8 2 0
Nebraska 3 2 0 4 5 0
Oklahoma 3 2 0 6 3 0
Kansas 2 3 0 3 6 0
Kansas State 1 3 1 2 5 2
Iowa State 0 4 1 2 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1941 college football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record (5–0 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, lost to Fordham in the 1942 Sugar Bowl, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 226 to 39, and was ranked No. 7 in the final AP Poll. Don Faurot was the head coach for the seventh of 19 seasons.[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.

The team's leading scorer was junior halfback Bob Steuber with 67 points.[3] Five Missouri players were selected by the United Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Big Six Conference football team: Steuber; senior quarterback Harry Ice; senior center Darold Jenkins; senior guard Robert Jeffries; and senior tackle Norville Wallach. Three others (quarterback Maurice Wade, end Bert Ekern, and tackle Robert Brenton) were named to the second team.[4]

  1. ^ "1941 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  3. ^ 2014 Mizzou Football Records Book, p. 26.
  4. ^ "Missouri's Champs Place 5 Men on All Big Six Team". Ames Daily Tribune. December 1, 1941. p. 6.