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1940 Stetson Hatters football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ135622216 ↗
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The 1940 Stetson Hatters football team represented Stetson University as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1940 college football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Brady Cowell, the Hatters compiled an overall record of 2–5–1 with an identical mark in conference play. Stetson played home games at Hulley Field in DeLand, Florida.

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This entry incorporates text from “1940 Stetson Hatters football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.