1942 Kent State Golden Flashes football team

1942 Kent State Golden Flashes football
ConferenceOhio Athletic Conference
Record5–3 (1–1 OAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumKent State Athletic Field
Seasons
← 1941
1946 →
1942 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ohio Northern $ 5 0 1 6 1 1
John Carroll 3 0 1 3 2 3
Oberlin 4 1 0 5 3 0
Toledo 1 0 1 4 4 1
Baldwin–Wallace 2 1 0 6 2 0
Wooster 4 3 0 6 3 0
Kent State 1 1 0 5 3 0
Findlay 2 3 0 5 4 1
Heidelberg 2 3 0 4 4 0
Wittenberg 1 2 1 1 5 1
Kenyon 1 2 0 5 2 0
Case 1 2 0 4 4 0
Muskingum 1 4 0 3 4 2
Capital 1 4 0 3 4 0
Mount Union 0 5 0 1 6 0
Ashland 0 1 0 0 1 0
Otterbein * 2 0 0 5 1 1
Marietta * 1 0 0 2 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * – did not complete for championship

The 1942 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1942 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Donald Starn, Kent State compiled a 5–3 record.[1]

Kent State was ranked at No. 313 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

  1. ^ "2016 Kent State Football Record Book" (PDF). Kent State University. p. D5. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.