The 1939 Idaho Vandals football team represented the
University of Idaho in the
1939 college football season
The 1939 college football season concluded with the Aggies of The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M) being named as the national champions by the voters in the Associated Press writers' poll. Led by consensus All-American ...
. The
Vandals were led by fifth-year head coach
Ted Bank
Theodore Paul Bank (December 13, 1897 – June 3, 1986) was an American college football player, coach, and
Bank was a starting quarterback for Fielding Yost's 1920 and 1921 Wolverine football teams. He graduated from the university in 192 ...
, and were members of the
Pacific Coast Conference
The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pac-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, with eight of the ten PCC members (including a ...
. Home games were played on campus in
Moscow at
Neale Stadium, with one game in
Boise at
Public School Field
Albertsons Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in the western United States, located on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. It is the home field of the Boise State Broncos of the Mountain West Conference. Known as Bronco ...
.
The Vandals were overall and lost all three conference games. They did not play any of the four California teams,
Washington or
Oregon. In the
Battle of the Palouse with neighbor
Washington State, the Vandals suffered a twelfth straight loss, falling at
Rogers Field
Rogers Field is a public airport bordering the southwest of the town of Chester, serving Plumas County, California, United States. It has two runways (only one of which is still opened and maintained, however) and is mostly used for general av ...
in
Pullman on November 11.
Idaho's most recent win in the series was a fourteen years earlier in
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...
and the next was fifteen years away in
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
.
Two weeks earlier, Idaho began a rare three-year losing streak to
Montana in the
Little Brown Stein rivalry with a 13-point shutout at homecoming in Moscow.
While Montana was in the PCC (through
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
), the loser of the game was frequently last in the conference standings.
Idaho was ranked at No. 182 (out of 609 teams) in the final
Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.
Schedule
Coaching staff
* Bob Tessier, line
*
Forrest Twogood
Forrest Floyd "Twogie" Twogood (April 29, 1907 – April 26, 1972) was a minor league baseball player, college basketball and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He is best known as the head basketball coach at the University of ...
* Glenn Jacoby
* Walt Price, freshmen
All-conference
No Vandals were named to the
All-Coast team; honorable mention were ends Ray Smith and Emory Howard, guard Tony Kamelevicz, and center Tony Aschenbrenner.
References
External links
''Gem of the Mountains:'' 1940 University of Idaho yearbook– 1939 football season
Go Mighty Vandals– 1939 football season
Official game program: Idaho at Washington State– November 11, 1939
WSU Libraries: Game video– Idaho at Washington State – November 11, 1939
– student newspaper – 1939 editions
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