1940 Des Moines Comets |
| Head Coach: Archie Johnson |
| Chuck Delmege | Assistant Coach |
| SCORES | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Date | Opponent | Score | Location | Venue | Attendance | |||
| Sun | 9/15/1940 | A | Iowa Men's Reformatory | 23-0 | W | Anamosa, IA | |||
| Sun | 9/22/1940 | H | Chicago Brown Bombers | 0-0 | T | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | 1200 | |
| Sun | 9/29/1940 | H | Milwaukee Chiefs | 2-24 | L | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | 3000 | |
| Sun | 10/6/1940 | H | East Chicago Calumet Indians | 7-6 | W | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | ||
| Wed | 10/9/1940 | N | Chicago Brown Bombers | 7-7 | T | Waterloo, IA | 1500 | ||
| Sun | 10/13/1940 | A | Sioux City Olympics | 7-6 | W | Sioux City, IA | |||
| Sun | 10/20/1940 | H | Chicago Panthers | 20-7 | W | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | 4000 | |
| Sun | 10/27/1940 | A | Kenosha Cardinals | 6-29 | L | Kenosha, WI | Lake Front Stadium | ||
| Sun | 11/3/1940 | H | Sioux City Olympics | 20-6 | W | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | ||
| Sun | 11/10/1940 | H | Kansas City All-Stars | 34-8 | W | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | ||
| Thu | 11/28/1940 | H | Des Moines Hawkeye A.C. | 45-9 | W | West Des Moines, IA | Valley Stadium | 200 | |
| ROSTER | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | No | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | College | GP | GS |
| Joe Antonio | FB-RH-LH | 6-0 | 180 | 25 | Kansas; Colorado | |||
| Dick Bauma | G | 20 | ||||||
| Barry Breedon | RT-LT | 210 | ||||||
| Clyde Carney | E | Drake | ||||||
| Ed Cisler | RH-LH-FB | Coe | ||||||
| Chuck Delmege | RE-RT-G | 6-0 | 190 | 35 | Drake | |||
| Versil Deskin | LE-RE | 5-11 | 199 | 27 | Drake | |||
| Elmer Fenton | T | 210 | Iowa Wesleyan | |||||
| Bruce Gardner | FB-LH | 205 | Central (Iowa) | |||||
| Gabbie Gilman | G | 5-6 | 187 | 23 | ||||
| Lee Gilmore | HB | Simpson | ||||||
| Joe Ginsberg | RG-RT | Drake | ||||||
| Herb Hedlund | LG | 6-0 | 205 | 25 | Drake | |||
| Francis Henry | RH | Drake | ||||||
| Dwight Hoover | B | 6-0 | 210 | 27 | Iowa | |||
| Joe Hybl | FB | Texas A&M | ||||||
| Paul Jones | RE-L | 5-10 | 190 | 23 | Northern Iowa | |||
| Keith Kernahan | QB | 175 | 33 | Des Moines; Central (Iowa) | 11 | |||
| Ted Key | FB | 5-11 | 200 | 31 | Weatherford JC; Texas-El Paso; UCLA | |||
| Wally Malone | LT-RT | 200 | 24 | Notre Dame | ||||
| Phil Manders | QB-RH | 5-8 | 185 | 25 | Drake | 6 | ||
| McClintock | G | |||||||
| Walt Miller | LG-RG-LT-B | 210 | Drake | |||||
| Melvin Nelson | C | Northern Iowa | ||||||
| Tony Olls | RG-C-LT | 205 | 32 | 9 | ||||
| T. Phillips | RG-C-T | |||||||
| Bill Reagan | B | 200 | William Penn | |||||
| Bob Rook | B | 200 | 29 | Iowa | ||||
| Al Schmidt | RE-LEE-T | |||||||
| Buck Snow | RG-LG | Grinnell | ||||||
| Carl Sullivan | LH | Iowa | ||||||
| Bobby Vandever | LH-RH | 5-11 | 175 | 26 | Drake | |||
| Harley Yager | C | 5-7 | 208 | Drake | ||||
| Frank Zika | 205 | 27 | ||||||
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