1939 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

1939 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5
Head coach	Bill Kern (3rd season)
Home stadium	Pitt Stadium (capacity: 69,400)

1939 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—during the 1939 college football season. The Tartans were led by third-year head coach Bill Kern and played their home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Source
September 30	at Wittenberg		Springfield, OH	W 35–0
October 7	at Temple		Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0
October 14	at Case		Shaw Stadium Cleveland, OH	W 21–0
October 21	at NYU	No. 15	Yankee Stadium Bronx, NY	L 0–6
October 28	No. 2 Notre Dame		Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 6–7
November 11	Pittsburgh		Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–6
November 18	at No. 18 Holy Cross		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–21
November 25	at No. 12 Duquesne		Duquesne, PA	L 7–22
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game