1940 USC Trojans football team

1940 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1940 USC Trojans football
1940 USC Trojans football
Conference	Pacific Coast Conference
1940 record	3–4–2 (2–3–2 PCC)
Head coach	Howard Jones (16th season);
Home stadium	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
	Seasons ← 1939 1941 →

The 1940 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1940 college football season. In their 16th year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled a 3–4–2 record (2–3–2 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 98 to 88.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
September 28	Washington State		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	T 14–14	40,000
October 5	Oregon State		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	T 0–0	50,000
October 12	at Illinois*		Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	W 13–7	30,125
October 19	Oregon	No. 17	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 13–0	35,000
October 26	at No. 9 Stanford	No. 17	Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA (rivalry)	L 7–21	60,000
November 9	California		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	L 7–20	50,000
November 16	at No. 17 Washington		Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	L 0–14	27,000
November 30	UCLA		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (Victory Bell)	W 28–12	70,000
December 7	Notre Dame*		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)	L 6–10	85,808
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

^ "Southern California Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.

[1] "Southern California Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.

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v t USC Trojans football
Venues	Athletic Park (1895–98) Fiesta Park (1897–98, 1902, 1904–06, 1916) Chutes Park (1900) Prager Park (1903) Bovard Field (1904–10, 1914–15, 1917–22) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1923–present) Jones Field/Kennedy Field (practice)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Notre Dame Stanford UCLA Victory Bell Crosstown Cup
Culture & lore	Traveler George Tirebiter Giles Pellerin "Fight On" Spirit of Troy Student Body Right Tommy Trojan Athletics scandal 1967 "Game of the Century" "Bush Push" 2007 Stanford game So This Is College
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911–1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
National championship seasons in bold

1940 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 2 Stanford $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Washington	7	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Oregon State	4	–	3	–	1	5	–	3	–	1
Washington State	3	–	4	–	2	4	–	4	–	2
Oregon	3	–	4	–	1	4	–	4	–	1
California	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
USC	2	–	3	–	2	3	–	4	–	2
Montana	1	–	2	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
UCLA	1	–	6	–	0	1	–	9	–	0
Idaho	0	–	4	–	0	1	–	7	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll