1940 Kansas State Wildcats football team
American college football season
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The 1940 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1940 college football season. The team's head football coach was Hobbs Adams, in his first year of his first tenure at the helm of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats finished the season with a 2–7 record with a 1–4 record in conference play. They finished in fifth place in the Big Six Conference. The Wildcats scored 73 points and gave up 145 points.[1]
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Record2–7 (1–4 Big 6)
Headcoach
- Hobbs Adams (1st season)
HomestadiumMemorial Stadium
| 1940 Kansas State Wildcats football | |
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| Conference | Big Six Conference |
| Record | 2–7 (1–4 Big 6) |
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| Home stadium | Memorial Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 7 Nebraska $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa State | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kansas State was ranked at No. 104 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 28 | Kansas State Teachers* | W 21–16 | 5,000 | ||
| October 5 | at Colorado* | L 6–7 | [3] | ||
| October 12 | Missouri |
| L 13–24 | 11,000 | |
| October 19 | at Oklahoma | L 0–14 | 16,000 | ||
| October 26 | Kansas |
| W 20–0 | 14,000 | [4] |
| November 2 | at Michigan State* | L 0–32 | 20,000 | ||
| November 9 | at South Carolina* | L 13–20 | 11,000 | [5] | |
| November 16 | Iowa State |
| L 0–12 | 7,936 | |
| November 30 | at No. 8 Nebraska | L 0–20 | 20,000 | [6] | |
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