1940 USC Trojans football team

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1940 USC Trojans football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–4–2 (2–3–2 PCC)
Head coach
CaptainEd Dempsey
Home stadiumLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Stanford $ 7 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
No. 10 Washington 7 – 1 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Oregon State 4 – 3 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Washington State 3 – 4 – 2 4 – 4 – 2
Oregon
 3 – 4 – 1 4 – 4 – 1
California 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
USC 2 – 3 – 2 3 – 4 – 2
Montana 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 4 – 1
UCLA 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 9 – 0
Idaho 0 – 4 – 0 1 – 7 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1940 college football season. In their 16th year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled a 3–4–2 record (2–3–2 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 98 to 88.[1]

USC was ranked at No. 41 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Washington State
T 14–1440,000
October 5Oregon State
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
T 0–050,000
October 12at
Memorial Stadium
  • Champaign, IL
    		• W 13–730,125[3]
    October 19
    Oregon
    		No. 17
    • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
    • Los Angeles, CA
    		W 13–035,000
    October 26at No. 9 StanfordNo. 17
    		L 7–2160,000
    November 9California
    • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
    • Los Angeles, CA
    		L 7–2050,000
    November 16at No. 17 Washington
    		L 0–1430,000[4]
    November 30UCLA
    		W 28–1270,000
    December 7Notre Dame*dagger
    • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
    • Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)
    		L 6–1085,808
    • *Non-conference game
    • daggerHomecoming
    • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

    References

    1. ^ "Southern California Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
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