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1938 Manhattan Jaspers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
Home stadium Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, Polo Grounds
Seasons
←  1937
1939 →
1938 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Worcester Tech     6 0 0
No. 18 Villanova     8 0 1
No. 9 Holy Cross     8 1 0
Boston College     6 1 2
No. 15 Fordham     6 1 2
No. 12 Cornell     5 1 1
Army     8 2 0
No. 8 Pittsburgh     8 2 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech     7 2 0
No. 20 Dartmouth     7 2 0
Vermont     4 2 1
Brown     5 3 0
Bucknell     5 3 0
Syracuse     5 3 0
CCNY     4 3 0
Penn     3 2 3
Manhattan     5 4 0
Harvard     4 4 0
La Salle     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 0
Boston University     3 4 1
Penn State     3 4 1
Princeton     3 4 1
Hofstra     2 3 1
Duquesne     4 6 0
Temple     3 6 1
Providence     3 5 0
Columbia     3 6 0
Massachusetts State     3 6 0
Colgate     2 5 0
Buffalo     2 6 0
Yale     2 6 0
Tufts     1 6 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 Manhattan Jaspers football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1938 college football season. In its first season under head coach Herb Kopf, the team compiled a 5–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 93 to 70. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24 St. BonaventureL 6–7
September 30 NiagaraW 19–0
October 8at Holy CrossL 6–19
October 15at Providence
W 20–73,000 [2]
October 22 GeorgetownL 13–1415,000 [3]
October 29at Canisius Buffalo, NYW 13–3
November 5 NC State
  • Yankee Stadium
  • Bronx, NY
W 3–08,000 [4]
November 19 West Virginia
  • Yankee Stadium
  • Bronx, NY
W 13–0
November 24 No. 16 Villanova
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
L 0–20
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1938 Manhattan Jaspers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ "Jaspers beat Providence by 20–7 score". Brooklyn Eagle. October 16, 1938. Retrieved May 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Francis E. Stan (October 23, 1938). "Hoyas, Led by Mellendeck, Beat Manhattan in Fierce Game, 14-13". The Sunday Star. pp. B6, B10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Jasper place-kick trips NC State, 3–0". Daily News. November 6, 1938. Retrieved December 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.