1939 Loyola Wolf Pack Football Team
The 1939 Loyola Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College of New Orleans (now known as Loyola University New Orleans) as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1939 college football season. In their third season under head coach Larry Mullins Laurence A. "Moon" Mullins (June 13, 1908 – August 10, 1968) was an American college football player, coach and athletic director. He played fullback under Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame. He served as the head coach at St. Bened ..., the team compiled a 5–5 record. At the conclusion of the season, Loyola discontinued the football program citing financial losses. Schedule References Loyola Loyola Wolf Pack football seasons Loyola Wolf Pack football {{collegefootball-1939-season-stub ...
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Dixie Conference
The Dixie Conference was the name of two List of college athletic conferences, collegiate athletic leagues in the United States The first operated from 1930 until the United States' entry into World War II in 1942. The second conference to use the name existed from 1948 to 1954. Dixie Conference (1930) Formation and relationship with the SIAA At the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) annual convention in 1930, nine of the association's members announced the formation of the Dixie Conference to facilitate scheduling of games among the group.. The charter members were Birmingham-Southern College, Samford University, Howard College (now Samford University), Rhodes College, Southwestern of Memphis (now Rhodes College), Centre College, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of Chattanooga (now the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Spring Hill College and Mercer University; Loyola University New Orleans joined the Dixie two years later. At the t ...
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1939 Creighton Bluejays Football Team
The 1939 Creighton Bluejays football team was an American football team that represented Creighton University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1939 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Marchmont Schwartz, the team compiled a 4–5 record (2–4 against MVC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 43. Creighton was ranked at No. 102 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. The team played its home games at Creighton Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska. Schedule References {{Creighton Bluejays football navbox Creighton Creighton Bluejays football seasons Creighton Bluejays football The first year of Creighton Bluejays football was in 1900. They fielded a football team every year from 1900 to 1942. The first team photo is from 1893, but first played in 1900. History Nickname Creighton adopted a Bluejay as its mascot in 1924 ...

1939 Dixie Conference Football Season
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1939 Texas Tech Red Raiders Football Team
The 1939 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 1939 college football season. Led by tenth-year head coach Pete Cawthon, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 5–5–1 with a mark of 2–1 in conference play, placing third in the Border Conference. The team outscored its opponents by a total of 150 to 74 on the season. Texas Tech played home games at Tech Field in Lubbock, Texas. On November 11, Texas Tech played Centenary to a scoreless tie in a game in which the two teams combined for an NCAA-record 77 punts. Texas Tech was ranked at No. 90 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. Schedule Game summaries At Centenary The game was played in a torrential downpour that led to muddy field conditions that prevented either team from effectively running or passing the ball. To cope with the poor conditions, the teams reso ...
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1939 Spring Hill Badgers Football Team
The 1939 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1939 college football season. In their second year under head coach Earle Smith, the team compiled a 1–7–1 record. Schedule References Spring Hill Spring Hill Badgers football seasons Spring Hill Badgers football The Spring Hill Badgers football team represents the Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. The school's teams are known as the Badgers. They have not competed in football since 1941. History The Spring Hill football team played its first game in ...

Brookland Stadium
Brookland Stadium, or Killion Field, was the athletic field for Catholic University in Brookland, Washington, D.C. from 1924 to 1985. It was named after alumni Captain Edward L Killion. It was located on the main campus of The Catholic University of America, next to Brookland Gymnasium (today's Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies), in the area now occupied by the Columbus School of Law and the Law School Lawn. Primarily used for college football, it was also a baseball and soccer stadium. It hosted the second leg of the 1970 NASL Final between the Rochester Lancers and the Washington Darts. History In the early 1920s, Rector Thomas Joseph Shahan was the biggest booster for the new stadium, saying he expected "the finished Bowl would be our chief financial asset". On May 26, 1923, ground was broken. Engineering professor Louis Crook served as the stadium's planner. On September 30, 1924, Boston College's student newspaper '' The Heights'' wrote: The stadium wa ...
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1939 Catholic University Cardinals Football Team
The 1939 Catholic University Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the Catholic University of America as an independent during the 1939 college football season. Led by 10th-year head coach Dutch Bergman, the Cardinals compiled an 8–1–1 record, shut out five opponents (including four in their first five contests), and outscored all opponents by a total of 229 to 73. The team's victories included games against the Detroit Titans, Miami Hurricanes, and Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Its only loss was to in a game played at Fenway Park. The Cardinals were invited to play in the 1940 Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, on New Year's Day 1940. In the first and only meeting between the two programs, Catholic University played Arizona State to a scoreless tie. Catholic University was not ranked in the final AP poll, but it was ranked at No. 39 in the 1939 Williamson System ratings, and at No. 54 in the Litkenhous Ratings. Key players included brothers Rocco ...
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Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette (, ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the most populous city and parish seat of Lafayette Parish, located along the Vermilion River. It is Louisiana's fourth largest incorporated municipality by population and the 234th-most populous in the United States, with a 2020 census population of 121,374; the consolidated city-parish's population was 241,753 in 2020. The Lafayette metropolitan area was Louisiana's third largest metropolitan statistical area with a population of 478,384 at the 2020 census. The Acadiana region containing Lafayette is the largest population and economic corridor between Houston, Texas and New Orleans. Originally established as Vermilionville in the 1820s and incorporated in 1836, Lafayette developed as an agricultural community until the introduction of retail and entertainment centers, and the discovery of oil in the area in the 1940s. Since the discovery of oil, the city and parish have had the highest number of workers in the o ...
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1939 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs Football Team
The 1939 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference during the 1939 college football season. In their third year under head coach Johnny Cain, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record. Southwestern Louisiana was ranked at No. 171 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. Schedule References Southwestern Louisiana Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football seasons Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football program is a college football team that represents the University of Louisiana at Lafayette at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Since 1971, the t ...

Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest city, Omaha's 2020 census population was 486,051. Omaha is the anchor of the eight-county, bi-state Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. The Omaha Metropolitan Area is the 58th-largest in the United States, with a population of 967,604. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) totaled 1,004,771, according to 2020 estimates. Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a radius of Downtown Omaha. It is ranked as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, which in 2020 gave it "sufficiency" status. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along th ...
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Creighton Stadium
Creighton Stadium was an outdoor American football stadium in the midwestern United States, located on the campus of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. At the southeast corner of North 27th and Burt streets, it was the home field of the Creighton Bluejays of the Missouri Valley Conference. Constructed in 1924, and opened in 1925, it was a concrete stadium in the shape of an oval, but lacked enclosed end zones. Asymmetric, the larger grandstand on the south sideline was single level and included the press box, while the north grandstand had a second deck, bounded by Burt Street. After several seasons, lights were added, between the field and the running track. The football field had an unconventional east-west alignment at an elevation of approximately above sea level. Located at the northwest corner of campus, the present-day North Freeway (U.S. Route 75) is immediately west of the site. Like many colleges during World War II, Creighton put its football program on hiatus a ...
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