1941 Saint Louis Billikens football team

1941 Saint Louis Billikens football
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Record4–5–1 (1–3–1 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadiumWalsh Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tulsa $ 4 0 0 8 2 0
Oklahoma A&M 3 1 0 5 4 0
Creighton 3 2 0 5 5 0
Saint Louis 1 3 1 4 5 1
Washington University 1 3 0 4 5 0
Drake 0 3 1 4 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1941 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1941 college football season. In its second season under head coach Dukes Duford, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record (1–3–1 against MVC opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 150 to 100.[1] The team played its home games at Walsh Stadium in St. Louis.

Quarterback Dick Weber was selected by the conference coaches as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team.[2]

Saint Louis was ranked at No. 143 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

  1. ^ "1941 Saint Louis Billikens Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  2. ^ L.E. Skelley (December 5, 1941). "Keithley Awarded Place On Valley All-Star Eleven". Miami Daily News-Record. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  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.