1939 Missouri Tigers football team

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1939 Missouri Tigers football
Big 6 champion
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Ranking
APNo. 6
Record8–2 (5–0 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 Missouri Tigers football team was an

AP Poll. Don Faurot was the head coach for the fifth of 19 seasons.[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri
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The team's leading scorer was

Collier's Weekly (chosen by Grantland Rice),[5] Newspaper Enterprise Association,[6] and The Sporting News.[4] He finished third in the 1939 Heisman Trophy voting, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956, and had his jersey (No. 44) retired at Missouri.[7]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Colorado*
W 30–0[8]
October 7at Ohio State*
L 0–1958,165[9]
October 14at Washington University*
W 14–010,000[10]
October 21Kansas State
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO
W 9–712,000[11]
October 28at Iowa State
W 21–612,000[12]
November 4 No. 10 Nebraska
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO (rivalry)
W 27–1318,000[13]
November 11at No. 17 NYU*
W 20–730,000[14]
November 18 No. 5 OklahomaNo. 12
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO (rivalry)
W 7–627,000[15]
November 25at KansasNo. 10
W 20–0[16]
January 1, 1940vs. No. 16 Georgia TechNo. 6
L 7–2135,000[17]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1939 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  3. ^ 2014 Mizzou Football Records Book, p. 26.
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  5. ^ "All America Is Picked By Colliers". Wisconsin State Journal. December 9, 1939.
  6. ^ Harry Grayson (November 28, 1939). "NEA Picks All America Eleven: Nile Kinnick Named Back of Season". Ironwood Daily Globe.
  7. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
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