1939 Missouri Tigers football team
American college football season
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The 1939 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1939 college football season. The team compiled an 8â2 record (5â0 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, lost to Georgia Tech in the 1940 Orange Bowl, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 155 to 79, and was ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll. Don Faurot was the head coach for the fifth of 19 seasons.[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.
| 1939 Missouri Tigers football | |
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Big 6 champion | |
Orange Bowl, L 7â21 vs. Georgia Tech | |
| Conference | Big Six Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 6 |
| Record | 8â2 (5â0 Big 6) |
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| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 Missouri $ | 5 | â | 0 | â | 0 | 8 | â | 2 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 18 Nebraska | 4 | â | 1 | â | 0 | 7 | â | 1 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 Oklahoma | 3 | â | 2 | â | 0 | 6 | â | 2 | â | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 1 | â | 4 | â | 0 | 2 | â | 6 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 1 | â | 4 | â | 0 | 2 | â | 7 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 1 | â | 4 | â | 0 | 4 | â | 5 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The team's leading scorer was Paul Christman with 42 points.[3] Christman was also selected as a first-team All-American by the All-America Board,[4] Collier's Weekly (chosen by Grantland Rice),[5] Newspaper Enterprise Association,[6] and The Sporting News.[4] He finished third in the 1939 Heisman Trophy voting, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956, and had his jersey (No. 44) retired at Missouri.[7]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| September 30 | Colorado* | W 30â0 | [8] | |||||
| October 7 | at Ohio State* | L 0â19 | 58,165 | [9] | ||||
| October 14 | at Washington University* | W 14â0 | 10,000 | [10] | ||||
| October 21 | Kansas State |
| W 9â7 | 12,000 | [11] | |||
| October 28 | at Iowa State | W 21â6 | 12,000 | [12] | ||||
| November 4 | No. 10 Nebraska |
| W 27â13 | 18,000 | [13] | |||
| November 11 | at No. 17 NYU* | W 20â7 | 30,000 | [14] | ||||
| November 18 | No. 5 Oklahoma | No. 12 |
| W 7â6 | 27,000 | [15] | ||
| November 25 | at Kansas | No. 10 | W 20â0 | [16] | ||||
| January 1, 1940 | vs. No. 16 Georgia Tech | No. 6 | L 7â21 | 35,000 | [17] | |||
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