| 1940 East Tennessee State Teachers Buccaneers football | |
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| Conference | Smoky Mountain Conference |
| Record | 4–4 (3–3 Smoky Mountain) |
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| Captain | Bud Carpenter, Frank Parsely |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milligan $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carson–Newman | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| East Tennessee State Teachers | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maryville | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cumberland (TN) | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tusculum | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1940 East Tennessee State Teachers Buccaneers football team was an American football team that represented State Teachers College, Johnson City—now known as East Tennessee State University (ETSU)—as a member of the Smoky Mountain Conference during the 1940 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Gene McMurray, the Buccaneers compiled an overall record of 4–4 with a mark of 3–3 in conference play, placing third in the Smoky Mountain Conference. Bud Carpenter and Frank Parsely were named co-captains for the year. The team played Carson–Newman and Emory and Henry each twice, losing both games to Carson-Newman and splitting with Emory and Henry.[1]
East Tennessee State was ranked at No. 461 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| September 21 | Emory and Henry* | Johnson City, TN | L 14–19 |
| September 28 | Milligan | Johnson City, TN | L 0–6 |
| October 5 | Carson–Newman | Johnson City, TN | L 6–16 |
| October 12 | at Emory and Henry* | Emory, VA | W 13–7 |
| October 19 | at Tusculum | Greeneville, TN | W 13–0 |
| October 26 | at Maryville (TN) | Maryville, TN | W 6–0 |
| November 2 | Carson–Newman | Johnson City, TN | L 0–12 |
| November 9 | Cumberland (TN) | Johnson City, TN | W 13–0 |
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