1941 Washington Huskies football team

1941 Washington Huskies football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record5–4 (5–3 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainNone
Home stadiumHusky Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 12 Oregon State $ 7 2 0 8 2 0
Washington 5 3 0 5 4 0
No. 19 Washington State 5 3 0 6 4 0
Stanford 4 3 0 6 3 0
Oregon 4 4 0 5 5 0
UCLA 3 4 1 5 5 1
California 3 4 0 4 5 0
USC 2 4 1 2 6 1
Montana 1 3 0 6 3 0
Idaho 0 4 0 4 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1941 college football season. In its 12th season under head coach Jimmy Phelan, the team compiled a 5–4 record, finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 120 to 94.[1]

Washington was ranked at No. 26 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[2]

After the season in mid-December, Phelan and his two assistants were fired.[3][4][5] Assistant Ralph Welch was rehired as head coach for 1942.

  1. ^ "Washington Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  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.
  3. ^ "Jimmy Phelan and two aides get gate at Washington U." Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. December 13, 1941. p. 9.
  4. ^ "Washington coaching staff is out". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. December 14, 1941. p. 1, sports.
  5. ^ "Phelan fired after dozen years at job". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 14, 1941. p. 18.