The 1940 Idaho Vandals football team represented the
University of Idaho in 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 ...
. The
Vandals were led by sixth-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 ...
.
Idaho was ranked at No. 186 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the
Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.
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 four conference games. They did not play any of the four teams from California or the
Oregon Webfoots. In the
Battle of the Palouse with neighbor
Washington State, the Vandals suffered a thirteenth straight loss, falling at homecoming in Moscow on Idaho's most recent win in the series was a fifteen 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** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.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 fourteen 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 ...
.
A week later, Idaho continued its rare three-year losing streak to
Montana in the
Little Brown Stein rivalry with a ten-point loss at Missoula.
It improved the Grizzlies' record against the Vandals to .
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. This was the seventh game of the season, and the first in which Idaho scored.
Bank was relieved of his coaching duties in January
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
,
succeeded by
Francis Schmidt of
Ohio State.
Schedule
* One game was played on Thursday (at Utah in Salt Lake City on
Thanksgiving)
All-conference
No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; honorable mention were end Chace Anderson, tackle Glenn Rathbun, and guard Len Zenkevitch.
References
External links
''Gem of the Mountains:'' 1941 University of Idaho yearbook– 1940 football season
Go Mighty Vandals– 1940 football season
– student newspaper – 1940 editions
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