1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team

The 1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1940 college football season. This was Mississippi State's only undefeated season. End Buddy Elrod would be named SEC "Player of the Year" by the Nashville Banner and be selected to several All America teams.

1940 Mississippi State Maroons football
Orange Bowl champion
Orange Bowl, W 147 vs. Georgetown
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
APNo. 9
1940 record1001 (401 SEC)
Head coachAllyn McKeen (2nd season)
Home stadiumScott Field
(Capacity: 20,000)
1940 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Tennessee $ 5 0 0  10 1 0
No. 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

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
September 28at FloridaW 27–7
October 5Southwestern Louisiana*W 20–0
October 12at AuburnT 7–7
October 19Howard*W 41–7
October 26at North Carolina State*W 26–10
November 2at Rhodes*No. 20Memphis, TennesseeW 13–0
November 9at LSUNo. 19W 22–7
November 16Millsaps*No. 15W 46–13
November 23No. 11 Ole MissNo. 16W 19–0
November 30at No. 17 AlabamaNo. 11W 13–0
January 1vs. No. 9 Georgetown*No. 11W 14–7
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015


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