1941 Oklahoma Sooners football team

1941 Oklahoma Sooners football
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Record6–3 (3–2 Big 6)
Head coach
Captains
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 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1941 college football season. In their first year under head coach Dewey Luster, the Sooners compiled a 6–3 record (3–2 against conference opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the Big Six Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 218 to 95.[1][2]

No Sooners received All-America honors in 1941,[3] but two Oklahoma players were selected by the United Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Big Six Conference football team: senior tackle Roger Eason and senior fullback Jack Jacobs. Two others (halfback Orville Mathews and guard Ralph Harris) were named to the second team.[4][5]

Oklahoma was ranked at No. 20 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[6]

  1. ^ "Oklahoma Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  2. ^ "1941 Oklahoma Sooners Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  3. ^ "2014 Oklahoma Football Records Supplement" (PDF). University of Oklahoma. 2014. p. 90. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  4. ^ "Missouri's Champs Place 5 Men on All Big Six Team". Ames Daily Tribune. December 1, 1941. p. 6.
  5. ^ "2014 Oklahoma Football Records Supplement" (PDF). University of Oklahoma. 2014. p. 95. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  6. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.