1941 Toledo Rockets football team

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

1941 Toledo Rockets football
ConferenceOhio Athletic Conference
Record7–4 (2–0 OAC)
Head coach
CaptainWarren Gongwer
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Case $ 4 0 0 7 1 0
Ohio Northern 5 0 0 6 1 1
Toledo 2 0 0 7 4 0
Bowling Green 4 0 1 5 2 0
Kenyon
4 1 0 5 2 0
Wooster
4 1 1 5 1 1
Heidelberg
5 2 0 6 2 0
Otterbein
4 2 0 5 3 0
Wittenberg 3 3 0 4 4 0
Muskingum
2 3 0 3 5 0
John Carroll 1 2 1 2 5 1
Kent State 1 3 0 2 5 1
Marietta
1 3 0 1 6 0
Capital
1 4 0 2 4 1
Baldwin–Wallace
0 2 1 3 4 1
Findlay
0 4 0 3 5 0
Mount Union 0 5 0 1 7 0
Ashland
0 3 0 0 5 0
Oberlin 0 3 0 0 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1941 Toledo Rockets football team was an

Toledo University in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1941 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Clarence Spears, the Rockets compiled a 7–4 record.[1][2]

The team's backfield included two African-Americans, right halfback Robert Nash and left halfback Dick Huston.[3]

Toledo was ranked at No. 142 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27
Saint Joseph's (IN)*
L 0–3[5]
October 4Detroit Tech*
  • University Stadium
  • Toledo, OH
W 55–0[6]
October 11at
Huntington, WV
L 7–337,500[7]
October 18John Carroll
  • University Stadium
  • Toledo, OH
W 20–04,000[8]
October 25at
Kalamazoo, MI
L 0–34[9]
November 1at
Illinois Wesleyan*
Bloomington, ILW 9–0[10]
November 4Camp Shelby37th Division*
  • University Stadium
  • Toledo, OH
W 39–05,000[11][12]
November 8Butler*
  • University Stadium
  • Toledo, OH
L 2–18[13]
November 15
Baldwin Wallace
  • University Stadium
  • Toledo, OH
W 27–7[14]
November 22at
Peoria, IL
W 14–6[15]
November 30at Jefferson Barracks*
W 22–214,000[3]
  • *Non-conference game

References

  1. ^ "Toledo Football 2015 Media Guide" (PDF). University of Toledo. 2015. p. 188. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "Toledo Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  3. ^
    Newspapers.com
    .
  4. Newspapers.com
    .
  5. ^ "Rockets Are Rocked by St. Josephs". Dayton Sunday Journal-Herald. September 28, 1941. p. 19.
  6. Newspapers.com
    .
  7. Newspapers.com
    .
  8. Newspapers.com
    .
  9. Newspapers.com
    .
  10. Newspapers.com
    .
  11. Newspapers.com
    .
  12. Newspapers.com
    .
  13. Newspapers.com
    .
  14. Newspapers.com
    .
  15. Newspapers.com
    .