1940 Stanford Indians football team
The 1940 Stanford Indians football team, nicknamed the "Wow Boys", represented Stanford University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) intercollegiate competition during the 1940 season. First-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy inherited a team that finished with a 1–7–1 record the previous season. He installed his own version of the T formation, a system that had largely fallen into disuse since the 1890s and was viewed as obsolete. The Indians shocked observers when they won all ten of their games including the Rose Bowl, which prompted several selectors to declare them the 1940 national champions. Stanford's dramatic reversal of fortunes prompted football programs across the nation to abandon the single-wing formation in favor of the new T formation.
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1940 Stanford Indians football team
The 1940 Stanford Indians football team, nicknamed the "Wow Boys", represented Stanford University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) intercollegiate competition during the 1940 season. First-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy inherited a team that finished with a 1–7–1 record the previous season. He installed his own version of the T formation, a system that had largely fallen into disuse since the 1890s and was viewed as obsolete. The Indians shocked observers when they won all ten of their games including the Rose Bowl, which prompted several selectors to declare them the 1940 national champions. Stanford's dramatic reversal of fortunes prompted football programs across the nation to abandon the single-wing formation in favor of the new T formation.
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The 1940 Stanford Indians foot ...... favor of the new T formation.
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W 21–13 vs. Nebraska
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BR, Helms, and PS National Cha ...... championship team.|group="nb"
Rose Bowl champion
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1940-09-28
1940-10-05
1940-10-12
1940-10-19
1940-10-26
1940-11-02
1940-11-09
1940-11-16
1940-11-30
1941-01-01
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"It couldn't happen—but it did ...... on's greatest gridiron glory."
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The Milwaukee Journal
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San Francisco Dons
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Stanford Indians
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The 1940 Stanford Indians foot ...... favor of the new T formation.
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1940 Stanford Indians football team
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