1940 Bucknell Bison football team

American college football season

1940 Eastern college football independents records
	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
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

The 1940 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Al Humphreys, the Bison compiled a 4–2–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 73 to 33.^[1]

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Schedule[edit]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	at Penn State		L 0–9	14,000	[2]
October 12	Ursinus		W 33–7
October 18	at Western Maryland		T 0–0	4,000
November 2	Temple	Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	L 7–10	10,000	[3]
November 9	at George Washington		T 0–0	7,000	[4]
November 16	at Gettysburg		W 20–7
November 23	Muhlenberg	Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	W 6–0
November 28	at Albright	Reading, PA	W 7–0
Homecoming

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