1940 Tennessee Volunteers football team
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The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee
in the 1940 college football season
. Head coach Robert Neyland
led his team to a 10-1 (5-0) record including eight shut-outs and out-scored his opponents 332-45. The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers won the school's second national championship
and were crowned champions by the Williamson and Dunkel polls.
University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
in the 1940 college football season
1940 college football season
The 1940 college football season ended with the Gophers of the University of Minnesota being named the nation’s #1 team and national champion, and the Stanford University Indians in second, with the two teams receiving 65 and 44 first place votes respectively...
. Head coach Robert Neyland
Robert Neyland
Robert Reese Neyland, MBE was an American football player and coach and and officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He served three stints as the head football coach as the University of Tennessee...
led his team to a 10-1 (5-0) record including eight shut-outs and out-scored his opponents 332-45. The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers won the school's second national championship
NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship
A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...
and were crowned champions by the Williamson and Dunkel polls.