1940 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
American college football season
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The 1940 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Technological College—now known as Texas Tech University—as a member of the Border Conference during the 1940 college football season. Led by Pete Cawthon in his 11th and final season as head coach, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 9–1–1 with a mark of 0–1 in conference play.
ConferenceBorder Conference
Record9–1–1 (0–1 Border)
Headcoach
- Pete Cawthon (11th season)
OffensiveschemeSingle-wing
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1940 Texas Tech football team | |
| Conference | Border Conference |
| Record | 9–1–1 (0–1 Border) |
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| Offensive scheme | Single-wing |
| Base defense | 6–2 |
| Home stadium | Tech Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Mines | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Mexico | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Mexico A&M | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Tech | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State–Flagstaff | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Texas Tech was ranked at No. 70 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[1]
The team played home games at Tech Field in Lubbock, Texas.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 27 | vs. Oklahoma A&M* | T 6–6 | 9,000 | [2] | ||
| October 5 | Loyola (CA)* | W 19–0 | 9,000 | [3] | ||
| October 12 | at Montana* | W 32–19 | [4] | |||
| October 18 | BYU* |
| W 21–20 | 7,000 | [5] | |
| October 26 | at Marquette* | W 20–13 | 8,000 | [6] | ||
| November 1 | Miami (FL)* |
| W 61–14 | 9,000 | [7] | |
| November 11 | Centenary* |
| W 26–6 | 8,000 | [8] | |
| November 16 | Wake Forest* |
| W 12–7 | 10,000 | [9] | |
| November 21 | at Saint Louis* | No. 20 |
| W 7–6 | 9,272 | [10] |
| November 30 | at New Mexico | No. 18 | L 14–19 | 7,000 | [11] | |
| December 7 | at San Francisco* | W 23–21 | 7,000 | [12] | ||
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Rankings
| Week | ||||||||
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| Poll | 1 Oct 14 | 2 Oct 21 | 3 Oct 28 | 4 Nov 4 | 5 Nov 11 | 6 Nov 18 | 7 Nov 25 | Final Dec 2 |
| AP | — | — | — | — | — | 20-T | 18-T | — |
