1940 Kansas State Wildcats football team information
American college football season
1940Kansas State Wildcats football
Conference
Big Six Conference
Record
2–7 (1–4 Big 6)
Head coach
Hobbs Adams (1st season)
Home stadium
Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Big Six Conference football standings
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t
e
Conf
Overall
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
$ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
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]
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]
^"1940 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
^Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
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