1941 USC Trojans football team

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1941 USC Trojans football
Conference Pacific Coast Conference
Record2–6–1 (2–4–1 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Seasons
  1940
1942  
1941 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 12 Oregon State $ 7 2 08 2 0
Washington 5 3 05 4 0
No. 19 Washington State 5 3 06 4 0
Stanford 4 3 06 3 0
Oregon 4 4 05 5 0
UCLA 3 4 15 5 1
California 3 4 04 5 0
USC 2 4 12 6 1
Montana 1 3 06 3 0
Idaho 0 4 04 5 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 USC Trojans football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference during the 1941 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Sam Barry who took over after Howard Jones died during the previous off-season. Barry also coached USC's basketball and baseball teams. The Trojans compiled a 2–6–1 record (2–4–1 against PCC opponents) and finished eighth out of ten in the conference. [1]

USC was ranked at No. 64 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941. [2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Oregon State W 13–750,000 [3]
October 4 Ohio State *
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 0–3365,000 [4]
October 11 Oregon
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 6–2042,000 [5]
October 18 Washington State
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 7–640,000 [6]
October 25at California L 0–1430,000 [7]
November 8No. 9 Stanford
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)
L 0–1387,000 [8]
November 22at No. 4 Notre Dame *L 18–2056,000 [9]
November 29 Washington
  • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • Los Angeles, CA
L 13–1435,000 [10]
December 6at UCLA Dagger-14-plain.png
T 7–760,000 [11]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

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