1940 Tennessee Volunteers football team

1940 Tennessee Volunteers football
National champion (Dunkel, Williamson)
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl, L 1319 vs. Boston College
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
AP No. 4
1940 record 101 (50 SEC)
Head coach Robert Neyland (14th year)
Base defense Single-wing
Home stadium Shields-Watkins Field
1940 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#4 Tennessee $ 5 0 0     10 1 0
#9 Mississippi State 4 0 1     10 0 1
Ole Miss 3 1 0     9 2 0
Alabama 4 2 0     7 2 0
Auburn 3 2 1     6 4 1
LSU 3 3 0     6 4 0
Georgia 2 3 1     5 4 1
Florida 2 3 0     5 5 0
Kentucky 1 2 2     5 3 2
Tulane 1 3 0     5 5 0
Vanderbilt 1 5 1     3 6 1
Georgia Tech 1 5 0     3 7 0
Sewanee 0 1 0     3 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers represented the University of Tennessee in the 1940 season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his fourteenth year, and played their home games at Shields-Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and one loss (10–1 overall, 5–0 in the SEC), as SEC Champions and with a loss against Boston College in the 1941 Sugar Bowl. This team won the school's second national championship after being recognized as national champion under the Williamson System, a power rating system created by Paul Williamson, a New Orleans geologist, and the Dunkel System, a power index system devised by Dick Dunkel, Sr.[1]

Schedule

Date Opponent# Rank# Site Result
September 28 Mercer* Shields-Watkins FieldKnoxville, TN W 490  
October 5 Duke* Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 130  
October 12 Chattanooga* Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 550  
October 19 at Alabama No. 5 Legion FieldBirmingham, AL (Third Saturday in October) W 2712  
October 26 Florida No. 5 Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in September) W 140  
November 2 LSUdagger No. 7 Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 280  
November 9 at Southwestern* No. 5 Crump StadiumMemphis, TN W 410  
November 16 Virginia* No. 5 Shield-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 4114  
November 23 Kentucky No. 6 Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN (Battle for the Barrel) W 330  
November 30 at Vanderbilt No. 6 Dudley FieldNashville, TN (Rivalry) W 200  
January 1, 1941 vs. No. 4 Boston College* No. 6 Tulane StadiumNew Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) L 1319  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). 2011 NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 75, 77. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  2. "Tennessee Football History and Records: Tennessee Results 1940–49". University of Tennessee Athletics. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
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