1939 Duquesne Dukes football team

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1939 Duquesne Dukes football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 10
Record8–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumForbes Field
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
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 Duquesne Dukes football team represented

AP Poll.[2] They were ranked at No. 32 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29
Illinois Wesleyan
W 31–0
October 6
Waynesburg
  • Forbes Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 20–0
October 14at Manhattan
W 7–0[4]
October 21at No. 1 Pittsburgh
W 21–1323,000–25,000[5][6]
October 27Texas TechNo. 11
  • Forbes Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 13–0
November 4MarquetteNo. 13
  • Forbes Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 21–1312,000[7]
November 11at NC StateNo. 12
W 7–013,000[8]
November 25at Carnegie TechNo. 12
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 22–737,500
December 2DetroitNo. 6
  • Forbes Field
  • Pittsburgh, PA
T 10–1023,691[9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. ^ "Duquesne's Last-Half Surge Topples Pitt, 21-13". The Washington Post. October 22, 1939. p. X1.
  2. ^ "1939 Final AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
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  10. ^ "1939 Duquesne Dukes Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
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