1940 Missouri Tigers football team

American college football season

1940 Missouri Tigers football

Conference| Big Six Conference
Record| 6–3 (3–2 Big 6)
Head coach|

* Don Faurot (6th season)

Home stadium| Memorial Stadium

Seasons

<- 1939

1941 ->

1940 Big Six Conference football standings

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
No. 7 Nebraska $  | 5  | - | 0  | - | 0 |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
Oklahoma | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0 |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 0
Missouri | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0 |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 0
Iowa State | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Kansas State | 1  | - | 4  | - | 0 |  |  | 2  | - | 7  | - | 0
Kansas | 0  | - | 5  | - | 0 |  |  | 2  | - | 7  | - | 0

* $ - Conference champion

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1940 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3 record (3–2 against Big 6 opponents), finished in third place in the Big 6, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 213 to 135. Don Faurot was the head coach for the sixth of 19 seasons.[1][2]

The team's leading scorer was Harry Ice with 42 points.[3]

Missouri was ranked at No. 37 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[4]

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.

## Schedule[edit]

Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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September 28| Saint Louis*|

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO

| W 40–26| |
October 5| at Pittsburgh*|

* Pitt Stadium
* Pittsburgh, PA

| L 13–19| 26,000| [5]
October 12| at Kansas State|

* Memorial Stadium
* Manhattan, KS

| W 24–13| |
October 19| Iowa State|

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO (rivalry)

| W 30–14| 12,457|
October 26| at No. 18 Nebraska|

* Memorial Stadium
* Lincoln, NE (rivalry)

| L 7–20| | [6]
November 2| NYU*|

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO

| W 33–0| 22,000| [7]
November 9| at Colorado*|

* Colorado Stadium
* Boulder, CO

| W 21–6| |
November 16| at Oklahoma|

* Memorial Stadium
* Norman, OK (rivalry)

| L 0–7| |
November 21| Kansas|

* Memorial Stadium
* Columbia, MO (rivalry)

| W 45–20| 17,000| [8]

* *Non-conference game
* Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

## References[edit]

1. ^ "1940 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
2. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 40\. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
3. ^ 2014 Mizzou Football Records Book, p. 26.
4. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Pitt Flashes Old Power to Top Missouri". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1940. p. Sports 8. Retrieved December 13, 2022 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ Barney Oldfield (October 27, 1940). "20 and 7, just figures, but not to the stadium thousands" - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Tigers are alert". The Kansas City Star. November 3, 1940. p. B1. Retrieved February 2, 2021 - via Newspapers.com.
8. ^ "Christman Flips Missouri To 45-20 Win Over Kansas". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 22, 1940. p. 22 - via Newspapers.com.

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Missouri Tigers football

Venues|

* Guitar and Lowry Field (1890–1891)
* Athletic Grounds (1892–1895)
* Rollins Field (1896–1926)
* Faurot Field (1926–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Bowl games
* Arkansas: Battle Line Rivalry
* Illinois
* Iowa State
* Kansas: Border War
* Nebraska
* Oklahoma

Culture and lore|

* Truman the Tiger
* Marching Mizzou
* 1911 Kansas game
* Fifth Down Game (1990)
* Flea Kicker

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