1940 Manhattan Jaspers football team

1940 Manhattan Jaspers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–6
Head coach
Home stadiumPolo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Triborough 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 Manhattan Jaspers football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its third season under head coach Herb Kopf, the team compiled a 3–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 165 to 155.[1]

Manhattan was ranked at No. 73 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

  1. ^ "1940 Manhattan Jaspers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.