1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

he 1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—as an independent during the 1940 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Edward Baker, the Tartans compiled a record of 3–5.^[1]

1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5
Head coach	Edward Baker (1st season)
Home stadium	Pitt Stadium
Seasons ← 1939 1941 →

1940 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		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

Carnegie Tech was ranked at No. 116 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	2:00 p.m.	Geneva	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	W 21–0	6,184	[3][4]
October 12		at Holy Cross	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–18	18,000	[5]
October 19		No. 6 Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	L 0–61	29,515	[6]
October 26	2:00 p.m.	Case	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	W 14–0	7,212	[7][8]
November 2		Cincinnati	Nippert Stadium Cincinnati, OH	L 6–7
November 9		Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–6	26,500	[9]
November 16		Franklin & Marshall	Lancaster, PA	W 18–6
November 30		Duquesne	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 7–14	19,907	[10]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time