1941 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team

1941 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football
MVC champion
Sun Bowl, W 6–0 vs. Texas Tech
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Record8–2 (5–0 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadiumSkelly Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tulsa $ 4 0 0 8 2 0
Oklahoma A&M 3 1 0 5 4 0
Creighton 3 2 0 5 5 0
Saint Louis 1 3 1 4 5 1
Washington University 1 3 0 4 5 0
Drake 0 3 1 4 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1941 Tulsa Golden Hurricane team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1941 college football season. In their first year under head coach Henry Frnka, the Golden Hurricane compiled an 8–2 record (4–0 against conference opponents), won the Missouri Valley Conference championship, and defeated Texas Tech, 6–0, in the 1942 Sun Bowl.[1]

The team was led by brothers Glenn Dobbs and Bobby Dobbs. Glenn was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame; Bobby served as Tulsa's head coach from 1955 to 1960.

Six Tulsa players were selected by the conference coaches as first-team players on the 1941 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team: halfbacks Glenn Dobbs and N.A. Keithley; end Elston Campbell and Saxon Judd; center Richard Morgan; and tackle Charles Greene. Four others were named to the second team: quarterback Joe Gibson; guard Roy Stuart and Wayne Holt; and tackle Jim Worthington.[2]

Tulsa was ranked at No. 66 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

  1. ^ "1941 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  2. ^ L.E. Skelley (December 5, 1941). "Keithley Awarded Place On Valley All-Star Eleven". Miami Daily News-Record. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ 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.