1942 Creighton Bluejays football team

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1942 Creighton Bluejays football
Conference Missouri Valley Conference
Record5–4 (1–4 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadium Creighton Stadium
Seasons
  1941
1942 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Tulsa $ 5 0 010 1 0
Oklahoma A&M 4 1 06 3 1
Washington University 2 3 05 5 0
Saint Louis 2 3 04 5 0
Creighton 1 4 05 4 0
Drake 1 4 03 7 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Creighton Bluejays football team was an American football team that represented Creighton University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1942 college football season. In its third season under head coach Maurice H. Palrang, and its final season of intercollegiate football, Creighton compiled a 5–4 record (1–4 against MVC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 170 to 127. [1] The team played its home games at Creighton Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

In the final game in program history, Creighton was tied with undefeated Tulsa (ranked No. 6 in the AP Poll) at the end of the third quarter, but lost by a 33–19 score as Tulsa rallied for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. [2]

A subsequent game scheduled for November 29 against Loyola in Los Angeles was cancelled due to wartime travel restrictions. [3]

Creighton was ranked at No. 120 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. [4]

In December 1942, Creighton's athletic director, Rev. David A. Shyne, announced that, at the end of the basketball season, the school would suspend its participation in intercollegiate football and basketball for the duration of the war. [5] The football program did not return after the war.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Colorado Springs Air Base *W 20–0 [6]
October 28:15 p.m. Washington University
  • Creighton Stadium
  • Omaha, NE
L 12–1310,000 [7] [8] [9]
October 11 Fort Riley *
  • Creighton Stadium
  • Omaha, NE
W 34–7 [10]
October 18at Xavier *
W 14–139,500 [11]
October 24at Drake W 33–14 [12]
October 31 Oklahoma A&M Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Creighton Stadium
  • Omaha, NE
L 6–208,000 [13]
November 8at Saint Louis
L 19–216,204 [14]
November 14 Texas Tech *
  • Creighton Stadium
  • Omaha, NE
W 13–6 [15]
November 21 No. 6 Tulsa
  • Creighton Stadium
  • Omaha, NE
L 19–339,000 [2]
November 29at Loyola (CA) Los Angeles, CA Cancelled [16]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Central time

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