1940 La Salle Explorers football team

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1940 La Salle Explorers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Home stadiumMcCarthy Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College     11 0 0
Duquesne     7 1 0
No. 14 Penn     6 1 1
Penn State     6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham     7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell     6 2 0
La Salle     6 2 0
Princeton     5 2 1
Columbia     5 2 2
Brown     6 3 1
Bucknell     4 2 2
Boston University     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 0
Hofstra
    4 3 0
Harvard     3 2 3
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Temple     4 4 1
Tufts     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 0
Villanova     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 4 1
Syracuse     3 4 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Manhattan     3 6 0
Providence     3 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Yale     1 7 0
Army     1 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Massachusetts State     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 La Salle Explorers football team was an American football team that represented La Salle College (now known as La Salle University) as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their first year under head coach Jim Henry, the Explorers compiled a 6–2 record.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22at
Lewiston, NY
L 6–215,500[1]
September 27at
West Chester
W 13–09,000[2]
October 13at CanisiusL 0–68,189[3]
October 19
Davis & Elkins
W 19–62,000[4]
October 27
Mount St. Mary's
  • McCarthy Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–02,000[5]
November 3
Scranton
  • McCarthy Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–63,000[6]
November 10at Providence
W 13–73,000[7]
November 23at
Pennsylvania Military College
W 31–6[8]

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