1940 Saint Louis Billikens football team

1940 Saint Louis Billikens football
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Record3–6–1 (2–3 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadiumWalsh Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tulsa $ 4 0 0 7 3 0
Oklahoma A&M 4 1 0 6 3 1
Creighton 2 2 0 6 2 2
Drake 2 2 0 4 5 0
Saint Louis 2 3 0 3 6 0
Washington University 1 3 0 3 6 0
Washburn 0 4 0 4 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1940 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1940 college football season. In its first season under head coach Dukes Duford, the team compiled an overall record of 3–6–1 record with a mark of 2–3 in conference play, placing fifth in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 113 to 88.[1]

Saint Louis was ranked at No. 117 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

The team played home games at Walsh Stadium in St. Louis.

  1. ^ "1940 Saint Louis Billikens Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.