Year: | 1941 |
Team: | Kearney State Antelopes |
Conference: | Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Short Conf: | NIAA |
Record: | 8–0 |
Conf Record: | 3–0 |
Head Coach: | L. F. "Pop" Klein |
Hc Year: | 7th |
Champion: | NIAA champion |
The 1941 Kearney State Antelopes football team was an American football team that represented Kearney State Teachers College (later renamed University of Nebraska at Kearney) as a member of the Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NIAA) during the 1941 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach L. F. "Pop" Klein, the Antelopes compiled a perfect 8–0 record (3–0 against NIAA opponents), won the NIAA championship, shut out six of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 204 to 13.[1]
The 1941 season was one of four perfect seasons in the history of the Kearney football program, along with the 1956, 1958, and 1967 seasons.