1941 Toledo Rockets football team

1941 Toledo Rockets football
ConferenceOhio Athletic Conference
Record7–4 (2–0 OAC)
Head coach
CaptainWarren Gongwer
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Case $ 4 0 0 7 1 0
Ohio Northern 5 0 0 6 1 1
Toledo 2 0 0 7 4 0
Bowling Green 4 0 1 5 2 0
Kenyon 4 1 0 5 2 0
Wooster 4 1 1 5 1 1
Heidelberg 5 2 0 6 2 0
Otterbein 4 2 0 5 3 0
Wittenberg 3 3 0 4 4 0
Muskingum 2 3 0 3 5 0
John Carroll 1 2 1 2 5 1
Kent State 1 3 0 2 5 1
Marietta 1 3 0 1 6 0
Capital 1 4 0 2 4 1
Baldwin–Wallace 0 2 1 3 4 1
Findlay 0 4 0 3 5 0
Mount Union 0 5 0 1 7 0
Ashland 0 3 0 0 5 0
Oberlin 0 3 0 0 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1941 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented Toledo University in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1941 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Clarence Spears, the Rockets compiled a 7–4 record.[1][2]

The team's backfield included two African-Americans, right halfback Robert Nash and left halfback Dick Huston.[3]

Toledo was ranked at No. 142 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[4]

  1. ^ "Toledo Football 2015 Media Guide" (PDF). University of Toledo. 2015. p. 188. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "Toledo Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TSIL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.