1940 Oregon Ducks football team

1940 Oregon Ducks football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record4–4–1 (3–4–1 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainNone
Home stadiumHayward Field, Multnomah Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Stanford $ 7 0 0 10 0 0
No. 10 Washington 7 1 0 7 2 0
Oregon State 4 3 1 5 3 1
Washington State 3 4 2 4 4 2
Oregon 3 4 1 4 4 1
California 3 4 0 4 6 0
USC 2 3 2 3 4 2
Montana 1 2 0 4 4 1
UCLA 1 6 0 1 9 0
Idaho 0 4 0 1 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon ass a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1940 college football season. In their third season under head coach Tex Oliver, the Ducks compiled a 4–4–1 record (3–4–1 in PCC, fifth), and outscored their opponents, 100 to 58.

Oregon was ranked at No. 32 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[1]

Three home games were played on campus at Hayward Field in Eugene and one at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.

  1. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.