1940 Brown Bears football team

The 1940 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their 15th year under head coach Tuss McLaughry, the Bears compiled a 6–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 124 to 94.

1940 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3–1
Head coach
  • Tuss McLaughry (15th season)
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
1940 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College    11 0 0
Duquesne    7 1 0
No. 14 Penn    6 1 1
Penn State    6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham    7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell    6 2 0
La Salle    6 2 0
Princeton    5 2 1
Columbia    5 2 2
Brown    6 3 1
Bucknell    4 2 2
Boston University    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 0
Hofstra    4 3 0
Harvard    3 2 3
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Temple    4 4 1
Tufts    4 4 0
Vermont    4 4 0
Villanova    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 4 1
Syracuse    3 4 1
Buffalo    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Manhattan    3 6 0
Providence    3 6 0
NYU    2 7 0
Yale    1 7 0
Army    1 7 1
CCNY    1 5 1
Massachusetts State    1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Brown was ranked at No. 101 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.

The team played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

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