Year: | 1939 |
Team: | Furman Purple Hurricane |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Southern Conference |
Short Conf: | SoCon |
Record: | 5–4 |
Conf Record: | 3–3 |
Head Coach: | Dizzy McLeod |
Hc Year: | 8th |
Captain: | Roten Shetley Lloyd Coley |
Stadium: | Sirrine Stadium |
The 1939 Furman Purple Hurricane football team was an American football team that represented Furman University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1939 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Dizzy McLeod, the Purple Hurricane compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a conference mark of 3–3, and finished seventh in the SoCon.[1]
Furman was ranked at No. 89 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[2]