1941 San Jose State Spartans football team

1941 San Jose State Spartans football
CCAA co-champion
Conference	California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record	5–3–3 (2–0–1 CCAA)
Head coach	Ben Winkelman (2nd season)
Home stadium	Spartan Stadium (Capacity: 18,155)
Seasons ←  1940 1942  →

1941 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
San Jose State +	2	–	0	–	1			5	–	3	–	3
Fresno State +	2	–	0	–	1			4	–	3	–	2
Santa Barbara State	1	–	2	–	0			3	–	5	–	1
San Diego State	0	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

The 1941 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State College ^{[note 1]} during the 1941 college football season.

San Jose State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Ben Winkelman, in his second year, and played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. They finished the season as co-champion of the CCAA, with a record of five wins, three losses and three ties (5–3–3, 2–0–1 CCAA).

San Jose State was ranked at No. 107 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941. ^[1]

The team was due to play a benefit game against Hawaii in Honolulu on December 13, 1941, which was cancelled following the attack on Pearl Harbor. ^{[2] [3]} The team had already arrived in Hawaii, and players were assigned to police duty following the attack. ^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	Texas A&I *	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	W 14–7	9,000
September 26	Utah State *	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	W 30–0	9,000
October 3	Fort Ord [note 2] *	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	T 6–6	12,000
October 10	at San Diego State	Balboa Stadium San Diego, CA	W 20–0	6,500	[5]
October 17	Hardin–Simmons *	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	T 7–7	9,000
October 24	at Pacific (CA) *	Baxter Stadium Stockton, CA	W 7–0
October 31	Santa Barbara State	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	W 33–14	4,500
November 8	at Nevada *	Mackay Stadium [note 3] Reno, NV	L 19–20
November 14	Fresno State	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA (rivalry)	T 0–0	10,000	[6] [7]
November 22	at San Francisco *	Kezar Stadium San Francisco, CA	L 0–20	8,000	[8]
November 26	Moffett Field Air Corps [note 4] *	Spartan Stadium San Jose, California	L 13–22
*Non-conference game

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Team players in the NFL

No San Jose State players were selected in the 1942 NFL draft. ^{[11] [12]}

Notes

1. San Jose State University was known as San Jose State College from 1935 to 1971.
2. Fort Ord was an Army post on Monterey Bay, California from 1917 to 1994.
3. This stadium is the predecessor to the current Mackay Stadium, which was opened for the 1966 season. "University of Nevada, Reno; Mackay Stadium" . Retrieved January 4, 2017.
4. Naval Air Station Moffett Field was a Naval Air Station from 1933 to 1994.

References

1. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Watson, Don (December 1, 1941). "Sports Comment". Honolulu Star-Advertiser . p. 14. Retrieved December 26, 2018– via newspapers.com.
3. "San Jose Eleven Is Paid Off". The Honolulu Advertiser . December 27, 1941. p. 9. Retrieved December 26, 2018– via newspapers.com.
4. "War Casts Cloud On Sports World". The Evening Herald. Klamath Falls, Oregon. AP. December 9, 1941. p. 10. Retrieved December 26, 2018– via newspapers.com.
5. Charles Byrne (October 11, 1941). "San Jose Wins, 20-0, as Aztecs Muff Scoring Chances". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. 3-B.
6. "Fresno State 2016 Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2016.
7. "Fresno State, San Jose Tie". The San Bernardino County Sun. San Bernardino, California. November 16, 1941. p. 14. Retrieved February 1, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
8. Bob Brachman (November 23, 1941). "Don Passes Win: 58 and 55 Yard Air Advances, March of 59 Wallops Spartans". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. Sports 2, 5 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "San Jose State 2016 Football Media Guide" . Retrieved December 16, 2016.
10. "San Jose State Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
11. "1942 NFL Draft" . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
12. "San Jose St. Players/Alumni" . Retrieved December 16, 2016.

Further reading

• McWilliams, Bill (2019). Scrimmage for War: A Story of Pearl Harbor, Football, and World War II. Guilford, Connecticut: Stackpole Books. ISBN   9780811738675.