1941 Lafayette Leopards football | |
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Middle Three champion | |
Conference | Middle Three Conference |
Record | 5–4 (2–0 Middle Three) |
Head coach |
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Captain | Joseph Laird, John McKenna |
Home stadium | Fisher Field |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lafayette $ | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rutgers | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lehigh | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1941 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team represented the Lafayette College as a member of the Middle Three Conference during the 1941 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Edward Mylin, the team compiled a 5–4 record and won the Middle Three championship. [1] The team played its home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania. Joseph Laird and John McKenna were the team captains. [2]
Lafayette was ranked at No. 95 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941. [3]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 27 | at Virginia* | L 0–25 | 9,000 | [4] | |||
October 4 | NYU* | L 0–6 | 7,500 | [5] | |||
October 11 | at Navy* | L 2–41 | 21,000 | [6] | |||
October 18 | Muhlenberg* |
| W 40–0 | [7] | |||
October 25 | Brown* |
| L 0–13 | 8,000 | [8] | ||
November 1 | at Gettysburg* | Gettysburg, PA | W 17–6 | [9] | |||
November 8 | Rutgers |
| W 16–0 | 10,000 | [10] | ||
November 15 | Western Maryland* |
| W 26–0 | 5,000 | [11] | ||
November 22 | at Lehigh | Bethlehem, PA ( rivalry) | W 47–7 | 10,000 | [12] | ||
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