1939 Idaho Vandals football team

The 1939 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1939 college football season. The Vandals were led by fifth-year head coach Ted Bank, and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at Neale Stadium, with one game in Boise at Public School Field.

The Vandals were 2–6 overall and lost all three conference games. They did not play any of the four California teams, Washington or Oregon. In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, the Vandals suffered a twelfth straight loss, falling 21–13 at Rogers Field in Pullman on November 11.^[1] Idaho's most recent win in the series was a fourteen years earlier in 1925 and the next was fifteen years away in 1954.

Two weeks earlier, Idaho began a rare three-year losing streak to Montana in the Little Brown Stein rivalry with a 13-point shutout at homecoming in Moscow.^[2] While Montana was in the PCC (through 1949), the loser of the game was frequently last in the conference standings.

Idaho was ranked at No. 182 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.^[3]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	2:00 pm	Montana State*	Neale Stadium Moscow, ID	W 7–6		[4]
October 7	2:00 pm	at Oregon State	Bell Field Corvallis, OR	L 6–7		[5]
October 13	2:00 pm	at Gonzaga*	Gonzaga Stadium Spokane, WA (rivalry)	L 0–19		[6]
October 21	1:00 pm	vs. Utah*	Public School Field Boise, ID	L 0–35	6,500	[7]
October 28	2:00 pm	Montana	Neale Stadium Moscow, ID (Little Brown Stein)	L 0–13		[2]
November 4	2:00 pm	Utah State*	Neale Stadium Moscow, ID	W 19–7	2,500	[8]
November 11	2:00 pm	at Washington State	Rogers Field Pullman, WA (Battle of the Palouse)	L 13–21	12,000	[1]
November 23	1:00 pm	at Denver*	DU Stadium Denver, CO	L 0–23	14,000	[9]
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Pacific time

• Bob Tessier, line
• Forrest Twogood
• Glenn Jacoby
• Walt Price, freshmen

No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; honorable mention were ends Ray Smith and Emory Howard, guard Tony Kamelevicz, and center Tony Aschenbrenner.^[10][11][12]

• Gem of the Mountains: 1940 University of Idaho yearbook – 1939 football season
• Go Mighty Vandals – 1939 football season
• Official game program: Idaho at Washington State – November 11, 1939
• WSU Libraries: Game video – Idaho at Washington State – November 11, 1939
• Idaho Argonaut – student newspaper – 1939 editions