The 1939 Northern Illinois State Evansmen football team represented Northern Illinois State Teachers College—now known as Northern Illinois University—as a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1939 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Chick Evans, the Evansmen compiled an overall record of 5–2–1 with a mark of 3–1 in conference play, placing third in the IIAC.
| 1939 Northern Illinois State Evansmen football | |
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| Conference | Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
| Record | 5–2–1 (3–1 IIAC) |
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| Home stadium | Glidden Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Illinois $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois State Normal | 3 | – | 0 | – | 2 | 4 | – | 2 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Illinois State | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carthage | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Illinois | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elmhurst | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eureka | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Illinois | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Northern Illinois was ranked at No. 293 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[1]
The team played home games at the 5,500-seat Glidden Field, located on the east end of campus, in DeKalb, Illinois.
Schedule
edit| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| September 30 | at Central Michigan* | Mount Pleasant, MI | L 0–6 |
| October 7 | at Elmhurst | Elmhurst, IL | W 13–0 |
| October 14 | Wheaton (IL) | W 19–7 | |
| October 21 | Dubuque* |
| W 20–12 |
| October 28 | Milwaukee* |
| T 0–0 |
| November 4 | at Southern Illinois | W 13–0 | |
| November 11 | Illinois State |
| L 7–13 |
| November 18 | at Eastern Illinois | Charleston, IL | W 22–6 |
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References
edit- ↑ E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Coaching Records Game-by-game: George "Chick" Evans, 1939". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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