1942 Missouri Valley Vikings football | |
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MCAU champion | |
Conference | Missouri College Athletic Union |
Record | 9–0 (4–0 MCAU) |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Missouri Valley $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Jewell | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Culver–Stockton | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Central (MO) | 0 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tarkio | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1942 Missouri Valley Vikings football team was an American football team that represented Missouri Valley College as a member of the Missouri College Athletic Union (MCAU) during the 1942 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Volney Ashford, the Vikings compiled a perfect 9–0 record (4–0 against MCAU teams), won the MCAU championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 391 to 59. [1]
Missouri Valley was ranked at No. 117 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942. [2]
The season was part of a 41-game winning streak (1941–1942, 1946–1948) that still ranks as the fifth longest in college football history. [note 1] Coach Ashford, who led the team during the streak, was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. [3]
Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 25 | Kemper Military School* | Marshall, MO | W 53–6 | |||||
October 2 | Central Missouri State* | Marshall, MO | W 31–14 | |||||
October 9 | Culver–Stockton | Marshall, MO | W 39–7 | |||||
October 16 | at William Jewell | Liberty, MO | W 59–0 | |||||
October 30 | Central (MO) | Marshall, MO | W 55–13 | |||||
November 6 | Tarkio | Marshall, MO | W 33–0 | |||||
November 11 | at Chillicothe Business School* | Chillicothe, MO (Armistice Day) | W 26–12 | |||||
November 14 | 8:00 p.m. | at Rockhurst* |
| W 33–7 | [4] [5] | |||
November 26 | Central (MO)* | Marshall, MO | W 62–0 | [6] | ||||
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