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

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—as an independent during the 1939 college football season. Led by Bill Kern in his third and final season as head coach, the Tartans compiled a record of 3–5.

Carnegie Tech was ranked at No. 55 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.

Carnegie Tech played home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	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	25,000
October 28	No. 2 Notre Dame		Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 6–7	61,420
November 11	Pittsburgh		Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 0–6	55,000
November 18	at No. 18 Holy Cross		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–21	30,000
November 25	No. 12 Duquesne		Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 7–22	37,500
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game