1940 Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football team

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1940
Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football
MOCC co-champion
ConferenceMichigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference
Record6–3 (3–1 MOCC)
Head coach
(3rd season)
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Michigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Lawrence Tech + 3 – 1 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Assumption (ON)
+ 		3 – 1 – 0 ? – ? – ?
DeSales (OH)
+ 		3 – 1 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
St. Mary's (MI) 1 – 3 – 0 2 – 3 – 0
Ferris Institute
 0 – 4 – 0 1 – 7 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1940 Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football team represented the Lawrence Institute of Technology of Highland Park, Michigan, as a member of the Michigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference (MOCC) during the 1940 college football season. In their third year under head coach Don Ridler,[1] the Blue Devils compiled a 6–3 record, tied for the MOCC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 147 to 96.[2]

Five Lawrence Tech players were selected by conference coaches to the MOCC all-conference first team: end Fred Dupke; tackle Walter Nowacki; guard Al Schrecke; halfback Harry Awdey; and halfback Jackie Coogan.[3]

Paul Ribbentrop, a cousin of Germany's Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, played at the tackle position for the 1930 Lawrence Tech team.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 20at
Hillsdale*
Hillsdale, MIW 19–9[5]
September 28at Indiana State*Terre Haute, INL 7–20[6]
October 5at
Assumption (ON)
W 10–01,500[7]
October 12Grand Rapids*
W 27–12[8]
October 19
Ferris Institute
Big Rapids, MIW 20–01,000[9]
October 26Wittenberg*
  • Ives Field
  • Highland Park, MI
L 0–20[10][11][12]
November 2St. Mary's (MI)
  • Ives Field
  • Highland Park, MI
W 31–0[13]
November 9
DeSales (OH)
  • Ives Field
  • Highland Park, MI
L 7–331,000[14][15]
November 16at
Defiance*
Defiance, OHW 26–2[16][17]
  • *Non-conference game

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  2. ^ "Lawrence Tech (MI) Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
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