1939 Colgate Red Raiders football team

The 1939 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its 11th season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the team compiled a 2–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 92 to 66. Ernest Neill was the team captain.

1939 Colgate Red Raiders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–1
Head coach
CaptainErnest Neill
Home stadiumColgate Athletic Field
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell    8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne    8 0 1
Swarthmore    6 0 1
Scranton    7 0 2
Princeton    7 1 0
La Salle    6 1 1
Penn State    5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College    9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham    6 2 0
Villanova    6 2 0
Boston University    5 3 0
Brown    5 3 1
Dartmouth    5 3 1
Hofstra    4 3 0
NYU    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
Manhattan    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Syracuse    3 3 2
Vermont    3 3 2
Tufts    3 4 1
Yale    3 4 1
Army    3 4 2
Bucknell    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    2 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 2
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 7 0
CCNY    1 7 0
Buffalo    0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Colgate was ranked at No. 58 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.

The team played its home games at the newly-constructed Colgate Athletic Field, later renamed Andy Kerr Stadium, in Hamilton, New York. The first game at the new facility was played against NYU on September 30, 1939. Colgate's first victory at the new stadium was on October 14, 1939, against Brown.

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