1941 Tulane Green Wave football team

1941 Tulane Green Wave football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record5–4 (2–3 SEC)
Head coach
CaptainPete Mandich, James Thibault
Home stadiumTulane Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 16 Mississippi State $ 4 0 1 8 1 1
No. 18 Tennessee 3 1 0 8 2 0
No. 20 Alabama 5 2 0 9 2 0
No. 14 Georgia 3 1 1 9 1 1
No. 17 Ole Miss 2 1 1 6 2 1
Vanderbilt 3 2 0 8 2 0
LSU 2 2 2 4 4 2
Tulane 2 3 0 5 4 0
Georgia Tech 2 4 0 3 6 0
Florida 1 3 0 4 6 0
Kentucky 0 4 0 5 4 0
Auburn 0 4 1 4 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1941 college football season. Led by Red Dawson in his sixth and final year as head coach, the Green Wave played their home games at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Tulane finished the season with an overall record of 5–5 and a mark of 2–3 in conference play, placing eighth in the SEC. The Green Wave was outscored by opponents by a total of 220 to 95.[1]

Tulane was ranked at No. 11 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[2]

  1. ^ "1941 Tulane Green Wave Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  2. ^ 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.