1938 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

The 1938 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology during the 1938 college football season. The Tartans were led by second-year head coach Bill Kern and played their home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1938 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
Sugar Bowl, L 7–15 vs. TCU
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 6
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
1938 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Worcester Tech    6 0 0
No. 18 Villanova    8 0 1
No. 9 Holy Cross    8 1 0
Boston College    6 1 2
No. 15 Fordham    6 1 2
No. 12 Cornell    5 1 1
Army    8 2 0
No. 8 Pittsburgh    8 2 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech    7 2 0
No. 20 Dartmouth    7 2 0
Vermont    4 2 1
Brown    5 3 0
Bucknell    5 3 0
Syracuse    5 3 0
CCNY    4 3 0
Penn    3 2 3
Manhattan    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
La Salle    4 4 0
NYU    4 4 0
Boston University    3 4 1
Penn State    3 4 1
Princeton    3 4 1
Hofstra    2 3 1
Duquesne    4 6 0
Temple    3 6 1
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    3 6 0
Massachusetts State    3 6 0
Colgate    2 5 0
Buffalo    2 6 0
Yale    2 6 0
Tufts    1 6 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The team first came to national attention after winning a close game against Northeastern power Holy Cross, who were on a 13-game unbeaten streak. Another big win came when the Tartans upset cross-town rival and defending national champion Pittsburgh, snapping their 22-game winning streak.

They finished the regular season at 7–1 and were ranked sixth in the final AP Poll, the only Carnegie Tech team to ever finish ranked. The Tartans were awarded the third ever Lambert Trophy, distinguishing them as the best college football team in the East. They were invited to their first and only bowl game in school history, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where they led at halftime but lost to national champion TCU, 15–7.

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