The 1940 Saint Mary's Gaels football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

team that represented Saint Mary's College of California during the

1940 college football season The 1940 college football season was the 72nd season of intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six Co ...

. In their first season under head coach

Red Strader Norman Parker "Red" Strader (December 21, 1902 – May 26, 1956) was an American football player and coach who served in both capacities at the collegiate and professional levels. In the college ranks, he spent two years as head coach at Saint Ma ...

, the Gaels compiled a 5–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 100 to 68. Saint Mary's was ranked at No. 49 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.

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