1939 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

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1939
Carnegie Tech Tartans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
Seasons
1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
No. 10 Duquesne   –   8 – 0 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 0 – 1
Scranton   –   7 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
La Salle   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 1 – 2
No. 11 Boston College   –   9 – 2 – 0
No. 17 Fordham   –   6 – 2 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 2 – 0
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Dartmouth   –   5 – 3 – 1
Hofstra
   –   4 – 3 – 0
NYU   –   5 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   4 – 4 – 0
Manhattan   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   3 – 3 – 2
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 2
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Yale   –   3 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 4 – 2
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Providence   –   3 – 5 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 2
Massachusetts State   –   2 – 5 – 2
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 7 – 0
CCNY   –   1 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 7 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—as an independent during the 1939 college football season. Led by Bill Kern in his third and final season as head coach, the Tartans compiled a record of 3–5.

Carnegie Tech was ranked at No. 55 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[1]

Carnegie Tech played home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at
Wittenberg
Springfield, OHW 35–0
October 7at Temple
W 6–0
October 14at
Case
W 21–0[2]
October 21at NYUNo. 15
L 0–625,000[3]
October 28No. 2 Notre Dame
L 6–761,420
November 11Pittsburgh
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 0–655,000[4]
November 18at No. 18 Holy Cross
L 0–2130,000[5]
November 25No. 12 Duquesne
L 7–2237,500
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

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  2. ^ "Case Football 1939/40". case.edu. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
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  6. ^ "1939 Carnegie Mellon Tartans Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.


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