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1940 Kent State Golden Flashes football team

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1940 Kent State Golden Flashes football
ConferenceOhio Athletic Conference
Record8–1 (4–0 OAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumRockwell Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Wittenberg $ 6 0 0 8 0 0
Kent State 4 0 0 8 1 0
Case 3 0 0 7 1 0
Muskingum 3 1 0 5 2 1
Heidelberg 5 3 0 5 4 0
Wooster 3 2 0 4 3 1
Capital 3 2 1 3 3 1
Ohio Northern 4 3 0 5 3 0
Toledo 1 1 0 6 3 0
Baldwin–Wallace 2 2 0 4 4 0
Bowling Green 2 2 1 3 4 1
Kenyon 1 2 1 2 4 1
Marietta 1 2 1 1 5 1
Findlay 1 2 0 4 4 0
Otterbein 1 4 0 3 5 0
Oberlin 0 2 0 4 3 0
Ashland 0 3 0 1 4 1
John Carroll 0 3 0 2 6 0
Mount Union 0 6 0 0 8 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1940 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University during the 1940 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Donald Starn, the Golden Flashes compiled an 8–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 186 to 43.[1][2] It marked their final season at Rockwell Field.

Kent State was ranked at No. 265 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 21at Bluffton*W 37–0
September 28Assumption (ON)*
  • Rockwell Field
  • Kent, OH
W 26–0
October 5Hiram*
  • Rockwell Field
  • Kent, OH
W 26–0
October 12Mount Union
  • Rockwell Field
  • Kent, OH
W 26–0
October 18at FindlayFindlay, OHW 13–0
October 26at Washington & Jefferson*W 31–0
November 2at Bowling GreenBowling Green, OH (rivalry)W 13–0[4]
November 9at Akron*L 7–23
November 16at Baldwin–WallaceBerea, OHW 16–7
  • *Non-conference game

References

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  1. ^ "2016 Kent State Football Record Book" (PDF). Kent State University. p. D5. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "Kent State Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Crippled Falcons Lose; Brudzinski Indispensible; Ed Mussill Lost To Team For Rest Of Season". The Daily Sentinel-Tribune. November 4, 1940. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.