1940 Brown Bears football team

1940 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College     11 0 0
Duquesne     7 1 0
No. 14 Penn     6 1 1
Penn State     6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham     7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell     6 2 0
La Salle     6 2 0
Princeton     5 2 1
Columbia     5 2 2
Brown     6 3 1
Bucknell     4 2 2
Boston University     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 0
Hofstra     4 3 0
Harvard     3 2 3
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Temple     4 4 1
Tufts     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 0
Villanova     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 4 1
Syracuse     3 4 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Manhattan     3 6 0
Providence     3 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Yale     1 7 0
Army     1 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Massachusetts State     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their 15th year under head coach Tuss McLaughry, the Bears compiled a 6–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 124 to 94.[1][2]

Brown was ranked at No. 101 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

The team played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

  1. ^ "1940 Brown Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  2. ^ "Brown Bears Football Media Guide" (PDF). brownbears.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.