The 1941 Western Kentucky State Teachers Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky State Teachers College (now known as

Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. It operates regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtow ...

) as a member of the

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football programs were members of this conferen ...

(SIAA) during the

1941 college football season The 1941 college football regular season was the 73rd season of college football, intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast ...

. Led by

Gander Terry William Lester "Gander" Terry (September 24, 1907 – February 22, 1991) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Western Kentucky State Teachers College from 1938 to 1941 and at San Diego State Universit ...

in his fourth and final season as head coach, the Hilltoppers compiled an overall record of 4–5–1 with a mark of 3–1–1 in conference play. Western Kentucky was ranked at No. 157 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.

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