1941 Tulane Green Wave football team

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1941 Tulane Green Wave football
Conference Southeastern Conference
Record5–4 (2–3 SEC)
Head coach
CaptainPete Mandich, James Thibault
Home stadium Tulane Stadium
(capacity: 69,000)
Seasons
  1940
1942  
1941 Southeastern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 16 Mississippi State $ 4 0 18 1 1
No. 18 Tennessee 3 1 08 2 0
No. 20 Alabama 5 2 09 2 0
No. 14 Georgia 3 1 19 1 1
No. 17 Ole Miss 2 1 16 2 1
Vanderbilt 3 2 08 2 0
LSU 2 2 24 4 2
Tulane 2 3 05 4 0
Georgia Tech 2 4 03 6 0
Florida 1 3 04 6 0
Kentucky 0 4 05 4 0
Auburn 0 4 14 5 1
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1941 college football season. Led by Red Dawson in his sixth and final year as head coach, the Green Wave played their home games at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Tulane finished the season with an overall record of 5–5 and a mark of 2–3 in conference play, placing eighth in the SEC. The Green Wave was outscored by opponents by a total of 220 to 95. [1]

Tulane was ranked at No. 11 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941. [2]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Boston College *W 21–745,000 [3]
October 4 Auburn
  • Tulane Stadium
  • New Orleans, LA (rivalry)
W 32–035,000 [4]
October 11at Rice *L 9–1025,000 [5]
October 18 North Carolina *No. 17
  • Tulane Stadium
  • New Orleans, LA
W 52–633,000 [6]
October 25 Ole Miss No. 10
  • Tulane Stadium
  • New Orleans, LA (rivalry)
L 13–2045,000 [7]
November 1No. 10 Vanderbilt W 34–1422,000 [8]
November 8No. 13 Alabama No. 14
  • Tulane Stadium
  • New Orleans, LA
L 14–1950,000 [9]
November 15vs. NYU *W 45–010,000 [10]
November 29 LSU
L 0–1950,764 [11]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

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