1940 Manhattan Jaspers football team

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1940 Manhattan Jaspers football
ConferenceIndependent
1940 record3–6
Head coach
Home stadiumPolo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Randall's Island Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College   –   11 – 0 – 0
Duquesne   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 14 Penn   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 1 – 1
No. 12 Fordham   –   7 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Hofstra   –   4 – 3 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 2 – 3
Dartmouth   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   3 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Manhattan   –   3 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 7 – 0
Yale   –   1 – 7 – 0
Army   –   1 – 7 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 5 – 1
Massachusetts State   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Manhattan Jaspers football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its third season under head coach Herb Kopf, the team compiled a 3–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 165 to 155.[1]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28St. Bonaventure
W 45–0
October 4George Washington
L 18–218,000[2]
October 11Boston University
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 20–69,233
November 18Detroit
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 0–611,500[3]
October 25at Duquesne
L 6–10
November 2at No. 9 Boston College
  • Alumni Field
  • Chestnut Hill, MA
L 0–255,000
November 9Marquette
W 45–41
November 16Villanova
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 6–13
November 23at Holy Cross
L 25–33
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ "1940 Manhattan Jaspers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ "G. Washington tops Jaspers". Daily News. October 5, 1940. Retrieved February 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "U-D Beats Manhattan, 6-0, on Ghesquiere's 80-Yard Run". Detroit Free Press. October 19, 1940. pp. 13–14 – via Newspapers.com.
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