1941 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

1941 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–5–1 (4–2–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainCal Givler, John Polanski
Home stadiumGroves Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Duke $ 5 0 0 9 1 0
South Carolina 4 0 1 4 4 1
Clemson 5 1 0 7 2 0
William & Mary 4 1 0 8 2 0
VMI 4 2 0 4 6 0
VPI 4 2 0 6 4 0
Wake Forest 4 2 1 5 5 1
NC State 3 4 2 4 5 2
Furman 2 3 2 3 4 2
Washington and Lee 1 2 2 1 6 2
North Carolina 2 4 0 3 7 0
Maryland 1 2 0 3 5 1
Davidson 1 5 2 1 6 3
The Citadel 0 2 1 4 3 1
George Washington 0 4 1 1 7 1
Richmond 0 6 0 2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1941 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Peahead Walker, the team compiled a 5–5–1 record (4–2–1 against conference opponents), finished seventh in the Southern Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 218 to 168.[1]

Guard Carl Givler was selected by both the Associated Press and United Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Southern Conference football team.[2][3]

Wake Forest was ranked at No. 72 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[4]

  1. ^ "1941 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  2. ^ "All Southern Conference Team Paced by Duke". The Delta Democrat-Times. December 2, 1941. p. 6.
  3. ^ "All-Southern Conference Team". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 29, 1941. p. 9.
  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.