1939 Massachusetts State Aggies football team

The 1939 Massachusetts State Aggies football team represented Massachusetts State College in the 1939 college football season. The team was coached by Elbert Carraway and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Mass State finished the season with a record of 2–5–2.

1939 Massachusetts State Aggies football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–2
Head coach
Home stadiumAlumni Field
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell    8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne    8 0 1
Swarthmore    6 0 1
Scranton    7 0 2
Princeton    7 1 0
La Salle    6 1 1
Penn State    5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College    9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham    6 2 0
Villanova    6 2 0
Boston University    5 3 0
Brown    5 3 1
Dartmouth    5 3 1
Hofstra    4 3 0
NYU    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
Manhattan    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Syracuse    3 3 2
Vermont    3 3 2
Tufts    3 4 1
Yale    3 4 1
Army    3 4 2
Bucknell    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    2 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 2
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 7 0
CCNY    1 7 0
Buffalo    0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Massachusetts State was ranked at No. 315 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at SpringfieldSpringfield, MAT 0–0
October 7BowdoinL 14–19
October 14Connecticut
L 6–7
October 21at Rhode Island StateL 20–232,000[2]
October 28at Worcester Tech
W 7–0
November 4Amherst
  • Alumni Field
  • Amherst, MA
L 0–13
November 11at Coast Guard
W 6–0
November 18RPI
  • Alumni Field
  • Amherst, MA
T 7–7
November 25Tufts
  • Alumni Field
  • Amherst, MA
L 7–34

See also

  1. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Late Field Goal Gives R. I. State Triumph, 23-20: 240-Pound Warner Kearney Boots Deciding Points". The Hartford Courant. October 22, 1939. p. 16C via Newspapers.com.


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