1938 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
Sugar Bowl, L 7–15 vs. TCU
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 6
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
1938 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Worcester Tech   –  6 –0 –0
No. 18 Villanova   –  8 –0 –1
No. 9 Holy Cross   –  8 –1 –0
Boston College   –  6 –1 –2
No. 15 Fordham   –  6 –1 –2
No. 12 Cornell   –  5 –1 –1
Army   –  8 –2 –0
No. 8 Pittsburgh   –  8 –2 –0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech   –  7 –2 –0
No. 20 Dartmouth   –  7 –2 –0
Vermont   –  4 –2 –1
Brown   –  5 –3 –0
Bucknell   –  5 –3 –0
Syracuse   –  5 –3 –0
CCNY   –  4 –3 –0
Penn   –  3 –2 –3
Manhattan   –  5 –4 –0
Harvard   –  4 –4 –0
La Salle   –  4 –4 –0
NYU   –  4 –4 –0
Boston University   –  3 –4 –1
Penn State   –  3 –4 –1
Princeton   –  3 –4 –1
Hofstra   –  2 –3 –1
Duquesne   –  4 –6 –0
Temple   –  3 –6 –1
Providence   –  3 –5 –0
Columbia   –  3 –6 –0
Massachusetts State   –  3 –6 –0
Colgate   –  2 –5 –0
Buffalo   –  2 –6 –0
Yale   –  2 –6 –0
Tufts   –  1 –6 –1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology during the 1938 college football season. The Tartans were led by second-year head coach Bill Kern and played their home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The team first came to national attention after winning a close game against Northeastern power Holy Cross, who were on a 13-game unbeaten streak.[1] Another big win came when the Tartans upset cross-town rival and defending national champion Pittsburgh, snapping their 22-game winning streak.[2]

They finished the regular season at 7–1 and were ranked sixth in the final AP Poll,[3] the only Carnegie Tech team to ever finish ranked.[4] The Tartans were awarded the third ever Lambert Trophy, distinguishing them as the best college football team in the East.[5] They were invited to their first and only bowl game in school history, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans,[6] where they led at halftime but lost to national champion TCU, 15–7.[7][8]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Davis & Elkins
W 49–0
October 8Wittenberg
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 32–13
October 15Holy Cross
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 7–6
October 22at No. 5 Notre DameNo. 13
L 0–725,934
October 29AkronNo. 16
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 27–13
November 5vs. No. 1 PittsburghNo. 19
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 20–10
November 12vs. DuquesneNo. 6
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 21–0
November 26at NC StateNo. 7
W 14–0
January 2, 1939vs. No. 1 TCUNo. 6
L 7–1544,308[9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Carnegie Tech Knocks Holy Cross From Undefeated in Pittsburgh Thriller, Winning Out, 7 to 6". Daily Boston Globe. October 16, 1938.
  2. ↑ "Carnegie Tech Upsets Pitt, 20-10". The Atlanta Constitution. November 6, 1938. p. 1B.
  3. ↑ "1938 Final AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Carnegie Mellon Tartans School History". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Carnegie Tech Officially Awarded Lambert Trophy". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, MA. December 6, 1938. p. 12.
  6. ↑ Smith, Chester L. (January 1, 1939). "Tartans primed for Sugar Bowl victory over TCU". Pittsburgh Press. p. 1, sports.
  7. ↑ Smith, Chester L. (January 3, 1939). "'Too much O'Brien,' story of Tech's downfall". Pittsburgh Press. p. 22.
  8. ↑ "52,000 see T.C.U. beat Tech, 15-7". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. January 3, 1939. p. 1.
  9. ↑ Amos Melton (January 3, 1939). "Carnegie Tech Greatest Foe, Say Frogs". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "1938 Carnegie Mellon Tartans Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017.


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