1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5
Head coach	Edward Baker (1st 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
La Salle			–					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

he 1940 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—as an independent during the 1940 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Edward Baker, the Tartans compiled a record of 3–5.

Carnegie Tech was ranked at No. 116 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Geneva	Pittsburgh, PA	W 21–0
October 12	Holy Cross	Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–18	18,000
October 19	No. 6 Notre Dame	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	L 0–61	29,515
October 26	Case	Pittsburgh, PA	W 14–0
November 2	Cincinnati	Nippert Stadium Cincinnati, OH	L 6–7
November 9	Pittsburgh	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–6
November 16	Franklin & Marshall	Lancaster, PA	W 18–6
November 30	Duquesne	Pittsburgh, PA	L 7–14
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game