1939 Idaho Vandals football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1939
| team = Idaho Vandals
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Pacific Coast Conference
| short_conf = PCC
| record = 2–6
| conf_record = 0–3
| head_coach = Ted Bank
| hc_year = 5th
| captain =
| stadium = Neale Stadium
}}
{{1939 Pacific Coast Conference football standings}}
The 1939 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1939 college football season. The Vandals were led by fifth-year head coach Ted Bank, and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at Neale Stadium, with one game in Boise at Public School Field.
The Vandals were {{nowrap|2–6}} overall and lost all three conference games. They did not play any of the four California teams, Washington or Oregon. In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, the Vandals suffered a twelfth straight loss, falling {{nowrap|21–13}} at Rogers Field in Pullman on November 11.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NJBfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1611%2C3077307|work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |title=Idaho loses by one touchdown in 'Civil War' |date=November 12, 1939 |page=10}} Idaho's most recent win in the series was a fourteen years earlier in 1925 and the next was fifteen years away in 1954.
Two weeks earlier, Idaho began a rare three-year losing streak to Montana in the Little Brown Stein rivalry with a 13-point shutout at homecoming in Moscow.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JpBfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1787%2C2122338 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |title=Grizzlies take Vandals, 13-0 |date=October 29, 1939 |page=11}} While Montana was in the PCC (through 1949), the loser of the game was frequently last in the conference standings.
Idaho was ranked at No. 182 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.{{cite news|title=Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth|author=E. E. Litkenhous|newspaper=Johnson City Sunday Press|date=December 31, 1939|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123000367/vols-second-in-final-litkenhous-grid/|via=Newspapers.com}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
| timezone = Pacific
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 30
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| opponent = Montana State
| site_stadium = Neale Stadium
| site_cityst = Moscow, ID
| score = 7–6
| attend =
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 7
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = l
| away = y
| opponent = Oregon State
| site_stadium = Bell Field
| site_cityst = Corvallis, OR
| score = 6–7
| attend =
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = {{dow tooltip|October 13. 1939}}
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| away = y
| opponent = Gonzaga
| site_stadium = Gonzaga Stadium
| site_cityst = Spokane, WA
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 0–19
| attend =
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 21
| time = 1:00 pm
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| neutral = y
| opponent = Utah
| site_stadium = Public School Field
| site_cityst = Boise, ID
| score = 0–35
| attend = 6,500
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 28
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = l
| homecoming = y
| opponent = Montana
| site_stadium = Neale Stadium
| site_cityst = Moscow, ID
| gamename = Little Brown Stein
| score = 0–13
| attend =
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 4
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = w
| nonconf = y
| opponent = Utah State
| site_stadium = Neale Stadium
| site_cityst = Moscow, ID
| score = 19–7
| attend = 2,500
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 11
| time = 2:00 pm
| w/l = l
| away = y
| opponent = Washington State
| site_stadium = Rogers Field
| site_cityst = Pullman, WA
| gamename = Battle of the Palouse
| score = 13–21
| attend = 12,000
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = {{dow tooltip|November 23, 1939}}
| time = 1:00 pm
| w/l = l
| nonconf = y
| away = y
| opponent = Denver
| site_stadium = DU Stadium
| site_cityst = Denver, CO
| score = 0–23
| attend = 14,000
}}
}}
Coaching staff
- Bob Tessier, line
- Forrest Twogood
- Glenn Jacoby
- Walt Price, freshmen
All-conference
No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; honorable mention were ends Ray Smith and Emory Howard, guard Tony Kamelevicz, and center Tony Aschenbrenner.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oW9WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6975%2C2374283 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=All-Pacific Coast football team lists tough fast group|date=December 8, 1939 |page=15}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TpBfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1690%2C4922990 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |title=All-star Coast football team selected by AP |date=December 8, 1939 |page=11}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XNtXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0PUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7272%2C1835913 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Dusky gridder tops all-star |date=December 8, 1939 |page=17}}
References
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External links
- [https://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1940/164 Gem of the Mountains: 1940 University of Idaho yearbook] – 1939 football season
- [https://gomightyvandals.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/1939/ Go Mighty Vandals] – 1939 football season
- [https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/wsu_fb/id/1617/rec/74 Official game program: Idaho at Washington State] – November 11, 1939
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4vqO1ONjK8 WSU Libraries: Game video] – Idaho at Washington State – November 11, 1939
- [http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/argonaut/years/1939.html Idaho Argonaut] – student newspaper – 1939 editions
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