1940 Colgate Red Raiders football team

The 1940 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the Red Raiders compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 125 to 76. James Garvey was the team captain.[1][2]

1940 Colgate Red Raiders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainJames Garvey
Home stadiumColgate Athletic Field
1940 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College   –  11 –0 –0
Duquesne   –  7 –1 –0
No. 14 Penn   –  6 –1 –1
Penn State   –  6 –1 –1
No. 12 Fordham   –  7 –2 –0
No. 15 Cornell   –  6 –2 –0
La Salle   –  6 –2 –0
Princeton   –  5 –2 –1
Columbia   –  5 –2 –2
Brown   –  6 –3 –1
Bucknell   –  4 –2 –2
Boston University   –  5 –3 –0
Colgate   –  5 –3 –0
Hofstra   –  4 –3 –0
Harvard   –  3 –2 –3
Dartmouth   –  5 –4 –0
Temple   –  4 –4 –1
Tufts   –  4 –4 –0
Vermont   –  4 –4 –0
Villanova   –  4 –5 –0
Pittsburgh   –  3 –4 –1
Syracuse   –  3 –4 –1
Buffalo   –  3 –5 –0
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –5 –0
Manhattan   –  3 –6 –0
Providence   –  3 –6 –0
NYU   –  2 –7 –0
Yale   –  1 –7 –0
Army   –  1 –7 –1
CCNY   –  1 –5 –1
Massachusetts State   –  1 –8 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

Colgate was ranked at No. 43 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Akron
W 44–06,000[4]
October 5at Cornell
L 0–3415,000[5]
October 12at Brown
W 20–3[6]
October 19Dukedagger
  • Colgate Athletic Field
  • Hamilton, NY
L 0–1314,000[7]
October 26Mississippi College
  • Colgate Athletic Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 31–05,000[8][9][10]
November 2at Holy Cross
W 6–04,000[11]
November 16at Syracuse
W 7–625,000[12]
November 23at Columbia
L 17–2024,000[13]
  • daggerHomecoming

References
  1. "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. p. 127. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. "1940 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Raiders Smother Akron Team, 44-0: Geyer Touchdown Sprints Pace Colgate". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. September 29, 1940. p. 1B – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "West Point Game Next for Cornell; Colgate Humbled". The Ithaca Journal. October 7, 1940. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Colgate Humbles Brown, 20-3". New York Daily News. October 13, 1940. p. C38 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Ted Mann (October 20, 1940). "Duke Defeats Colgate, 13-0: Jap Davis Stars in Duke Triumph". The News and Observer. pp. Sports 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Raiders Fear Choctaw Air Drive Today: Unbeaten Mississippi College Tests Colgate". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. October 26, 1940. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Bill Beeney (October 27, 1940). "Colgate Scores 31 Points To Rout Mississippi Club: Victims Blanked By Win-Hungry Raiders; Winners Employ Straight Brand Of Football". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Tribe Routed; Colgate Game Detailed Here By Quarter". Daily Clarion-Ledger. October 27, 1940. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Colgate Defeats Holy Cross, 6-0". New York Daily News. November 3, 1940. p. 37C – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Paul Pinckney (November 17, 1940). "Colgate Whips Syracuse With Closing Wallop, 7-6". The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. pp. 1B, 2B – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Gene Ward (November 24, 1940). "Columbia Trims Colgate, 20-17". New York Daily News. p. 88 – via Newspapers.com.
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