The 1940 Cal Aggies football team represented the College of Agriculture at Davis—now known as the
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
—as a member of the
Far Western Conference
The Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) was an NCAA Division II college athletic association that sponsored American football that was founded in 1925. It disbanded in 1998 after the majority of its member schools were forced to drop fo ...
(FWC) during the
1940 college football season
The 1940 college football season was the 72nd season of college football, intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conferen ...
. Led by fourth-year head coach
Vern Hickey
Vernard Benton Hickey (November 11, 1900 – July 15, 1987) was an American football, baseball, and golf coach, college athletics administrator, and local politician. He served as the head football coach at the Northern Branch of the College of Ag ...
, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 4–4 with a mark of 2–1 in conference play, placing second in the FWC. The team outscored its opponents 120 to 81 for the season.
The Cal Aggies were ranked at No. 301 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the
Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.
The Cal Aggies played home games at A Street field on campus in
Davis, California
Davis is the most populous city in Yolo County, California. Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 66,850 in 2020, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Da ...
.
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