1940 Toledo Rockets football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1940

| team = Toledo Rockets

| sport = football

| image =

| image_size =

| conference = Ohio Athletic Conference

| short_conf = OAC

| record = 6–3

| conf_record = 1–1

| head_coach = Clarence Spears

| hc_year = 5th

| captain = Warren Densmore

| stadium =

}}

{{1940 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings}}

The 1940 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented Toledo University in the Ohio Athletic Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Clarence Spears, the Rockets compiled a 6–3 record.{{cite web|title=Toledo Football 2015 Media Guide|publisher=University of Toledo|year=2015|pages=187|accessdate=August 23, 2019|url=http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/utrockets.com/documents/2015/8/17/Toledo_Football_Media_Guide_2015b.pdf}}{{cite web|title=Toledo Yearly Results (1940-1944)|publisher=David DeLassus|work=College Football Data Warehouse|accessdate=August 23, 2019|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/t/toledo/1940-1944_yearly_results.php|archive-date=December 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226090809/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/t/toledo/1940-1944_yearly_results.php|url-status=dead}}

Toledo was ranked at No. 162 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.{{cite news|title=Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings|newspaper=The Boston Globe|author=Dr. E. E. Litkenhous|date=December 19, 1940|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123126338/final-1940-litkenhous-ratings/|via=Newspapers.com}}