1939 Chicago Maroons football team

1939 Chicago Maroons football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1939 record	2–6 (0–3 Big Ten)
Head coach	Clark Shaughnessy (7th year)

1939 Big Ten football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#15 Ohio State $	5	–	1	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
#9 Iowa	4	–	1	–	1	6	–	1	–	1
#20 Michigan	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Purdue	2	–	1	–	2	3	–	3	–	2
Northwestern	3	–	2	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Illinois	3	–	3	–	0	3	–	4	–	1
Minnesota	2	–	3	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Indiana	2	–	3	–	0	2	–	4	–	2
Wisconsin	0	–	5	–	1	1	–	6	–	1
Chicago	0	–	3	–	0	2	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1939 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Clark Shaughnessy, the Maroons compiled a 2–6 record, finished in last place in the Big Ten Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 308 to 37. Chicago's sole victories came against Oberlin and Wabash Colleges. Against quality opponents, the team was soundly defeated, 85–0 against Michigan, and 61–0 against both Ohio State and Harvard, 47–0 against Virginia, and 46–0 against Illinois.^[1]^[2]

The 1939 season was described in the press as the worst season in Chicago Maroons football history. The school's academic demands had greatly reduced the personnel available to field a quality football team, and the Maroons had not won a game against a Big Ten Conference opponent since 1936.^[3]

In December 1939, after 47 years of competition, the University of Chicago's board of trustees announced that, the school would no longer field a football team.^[3]

References

↑ "Chicago Yearly Results (1935-1939)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
↑ "1939 Chicago Maroons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
1 2 "Chicago U. Drops Football From Intercollegiate Sports Program; Action of Maroons May Be First Step Bowing Out Big Ten". Lincoln Evening Journal. December 22, 1939. p. 9.

Chicago Maroons football

Venues	Marshall Field (1893–1912) Old Stagg Field (1913–1939) Stagg Field (?–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Michigan (historic) Purdue

Culture & lore	Phoenix Big Bertha Monsters of the Midway Marching band T formation 1894 Stanford game 1922 Princeton game

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

National championship seasons in bold

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