1939 Kansas State Wildcats football team

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1939 Kansas State Wildcats football
1939 Nebraska vs. Kansas State football game
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Record4–5 (1–4 Big 6)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
1939 Big Six Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 6 Missouri $ 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
No. 18 Nebraska 4 – 1 – 0 7 – 1 – 1
No. 19 Oklahoma 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 2 – 1
Kansas 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Iowa State 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Kansas State 1 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1939 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented

Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats finished the season with a 4–5 record with a 1–4 record in conference play. They finished in a three-way tie for last place in the Big Six Conference. The Wildcats scored 107 points and gave up 108 points.[1]

Kansas State was ranked at No. 61 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 30
Fort Hays*
W 34–7
October 6at Marquette*
W 3–015,000[3]
October 14Colorado*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
W 20–0
October 21at Missouri
L 7–912,000[4]
October 28No. 10 Nebraskadagger
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS (rivalry)
W9XAKL 9–25
November 4at
rivalry
)		W 27–6
November 11No. 6 Oklahoma
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
L 10–1317,545
November 18at Iowa State
L 0–105,339
November 25at Boston College*
L 0–2011,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Homecoming game against Nebraska

Kansas State played the Nebraska Cornhuskers on October 28, 1939. This game is notable for being the first college football homecoming game ever televised.,[5] the second ever televised college football game and the first televised game west of New York City.

Kansas State scored first with a field goal, but two minutes later Nebraska took the lead.[6] Nebraska won the game 25–9.[7]

Although Nebraska entered the game a 12–5 favorite,

Big Six Conference championship.[9] Nebraska ended the game as one of ten college teams in the US that were unbeaten up to that point.[10]

References

  1. ^ "1939 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
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  5. ^ "Televised Game". Morning Chronicle. Manhattan, Kansas. October 28, 1939.
  6. University of Nebraska
    . 1940. p. 176. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  7. ^ DeLassus, David. "Coach: Wesley L. Fry-Coaching Records Game-by-Game (1939)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  8. ^ Breitz, Eddie (October 27, 1939). "Roundup-Sports". The Fayetteville Observer. p. 10. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  9. ^ "Feature Big Six Tilt". St. Joseph News-Press. October 25, 1939. p. 8. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
  10. ^ "Nation's Football Teams Head Into Climax of Slate". St. Joseph News-Press. October 30, 1939. p. 4. Retrieved April 3, 2011.


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