1940 East Tennessee State Teachers Buccaneers football team

1940 East Tennessee State Teachers Buccaneers football
ConferenceSmoky Mountain Conference
Record4–4 (3–3 Smoky Mountain)
Head coach
CaptainBud Carpenter, Frank Parsely
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Smoky Mountain Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Milligan $ 5 0 0 9 0 0
Carson–Newman 4 1 0 4 4 0
East Tennessee State Teachers 3 3 0 4 4 0
Maryville 2 3 0 5 5 0
Cumberland (TN) 1 4 0 1 9 0
Tusculum 0 4 0 1 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1940 East Tennessee State Teachers Buccaneers football team was an American football team that represented State Teachers College, Johnson City—now known as East Tennessee State University (ETSU)—as a member of the Smoky Mountain Conference during the 1940 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Gene McMurray, the Buccaneers compiled an overall record of 4–4 with a mark of 3–3 in conference play, placing third in the Smoky Mountain Conference. Bud Carpenter and Frank Parsely were named co-captains for the year. The team played Carson–Newman and Emory and Henry each twice, losing both games to Carson-Newman and splitting with Emory and Henry.[1]

East Tennessee State was ranked at No. 461 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

  1. ^ East Tennessee State University Football by L. Thomas Roberts, Jerry Robertson, and the Buc Football and Friends Foundation, Foreword by Jack Higgs | Arcadia Publishing Books
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.