1941 SMU Mustangs football team

1941 SMU Mustangs football
ConferenceSouthwest Conference
Record5–5 (2–4 SWC)
Head coach
CaptainJ. Ted Ramsey, Horace Young
Home stadiumOwnby Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Southwest Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 Texas A&M $ 5 1 0 9 2 0
No. 4 Texas 4 1 1 8 1 1
TCU 4 1 1 7 3 1
Rice 3 2 1 6 3 1
SMU 2 4 0 5 5 0
Baylor 1 4 1 3 6 1
Arkansas 0 6 0 3 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1941 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Matty Bell, the Mustangs compiled a 5–5 record (2–4 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 169 to 106.[1]

Fullback Preston Johnson was selected by both the Associated Press and the United Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Southwest Conference football team.[2]

SMU was ranked at No. 24 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

The team played its home games at Ownby Stadium in the University Park suburb of Dallas.

  1. ^ "1941 SMU Mustangs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  2. ^ "All-Southwest Selections". The Paris News. December 10, 1941. p. 4.
  3. ^ 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.