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The 1940 Summer Olympics to be held in Helsinki, were cancelled due to outbreak of World War II.The major international athletics event of the year was thus the annual Finland-Sweden athletics international, held at the new Helsinki Olympic Stadium, exceptionally held as a triple international between Finland, Sweden and Germany.
The 1940 NFL season was the 21st regular season of the National Football League. The ten teams of the league each played an 11 game schedule, for a total of 55 regular season games. The season ended on December 8, when the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Play-off Game by a score of 73–0 in front of ...
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The 1940 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1940 college football season.In their 16th year under head coach Howard Jones, the Trojans compiled a 3–4–2 record (2–3–2 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 98 to 88.
INS = International News Service, selected through a nationwide poll of coaches and sports writers [5] LIB = Liberty magazine [2] NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association, picked with the aid and assistance of coaches, scouts, officials and football writers of the nation. [6] NW = Newsweek [2] SN = The Sporting News [2] UP = United Press [7]
The 1940 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Border Conference during the 1940 college football season.In their second season under head coach Mike Casteel, the Wildcats compiled a 7–2 record (3–1 against Border opponents), finished in second place in the conference, and outscored their opponents, 204 to 83.
The 1940 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Kern , the team compiled a 4–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 127 to 94.
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