1939 Providence Friars football team

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1939 Providence Friars football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
Home stadiumHendricken Field
Cranston Stadium
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 Providence Friars football team was an American football team that represented Providence College as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In their second year under head coach Hugh Devore, the team compiled a 3–5 record.

Providence was ranked at No. 203 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22Rhode Island State
W 6–0[2][3][4]
September 29
St. Bonaventure
  • Cranston Stadium
  • Cranston, RI
L 0–6[5]
October 6at
Long Island
L 0–710,000[6]
October 15Niagara
W 14–63,500[7]
October 20American International
  • Cranston Stadium
  • Cranston, RI
W 27–02,000[8]
October 28
Springfield
  • Hendricken Field
  • Providence, RI
L 0–13
November 4at Holy Cross
L 0–4610,000[9]
November 18at
Saint Anselm
L 13–04,000[10]

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