1939 Sugar Bowl
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| 1939 Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 5th Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
 Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted the Sugar Bowl. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 2, 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | TCU | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Abb Curtis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 44,308 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1939 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 2, 1939, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 5th edition of the Sugar Bowl, it matched the TCU Horned Frogs against the Carnegie Tech Tartans.[1][2][3] This was the first Sugar Bowl played on January 2. The next one to be played on that date would not be until 1950.
Davey O'Brien led TCU to a perfect 10–0 regular season as quarterback, throwing 94 of 167 passes for 1,509 yards with 19 touchdowns. with 1,847 yards total yards of offense by him in an era with little passing. Carnegie (who were nicknamed the Skibos and the Tartans) were the underdogs and ranked sixth in the AP poll.[1]