1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the Civil War
The Beavers were back in Durham for Christmas dinner. Each Oregon State player was given a walking stick, three cartons of cigarettes, a pack of tobacco, a sack of biscuit flour, ties, suspenders, shorts, a box of silk stockings, two pairs of silk socks, and pillowcases. On the 27th, the Beavers scrimmaged again. Bill Halverson was so ill that he was confined to his bed for the day. Norm Peters went out with a back injury and Orville Zielaskowski was hospitalized with a head injury. Stiner allowed Oregon State to go to Pinehurst on the 28th. At a polo game at Pinehurst, a polo player, Frank McCleur's horse spooked and threw him into a tree, killing him instantly in full view of the Beavers. Oregon State practiced for the last time at Kenan Stadium on the 30th.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the Civil War
To simulate Oregon State, Duke was practicing against what Brian Curtis of Sports Illustrated would call "the most talented scout team in the country." It included Duke graduate George McAfee of the Chicago Bears to simulate Oregon State's Donald Durdan, as well as Duke graduate Jap Davis, the older brother of Tommy Davis, and North Carolina State senior Dick Watts.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the Civil War
On January 1, 1942, in Pasadena, the Rose Bowl Court and Queen, all clad in regular street clothes, drove down a deserted Colorado Boulevard, and later to a reception at the Huntington Hotel.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Duke and Oregon State had never met in football. The Blue Devils were the nation's leader in total offense and second in the nation in scoring. Duke's defense was the seventh-best in the nation and had not allowed more than 14 points all year. Duke's All-American fullback, Steve Lach, was also the nation's second-best punter. The Blue Devils were averaging a 30-point victory every time they took the field. In each game, Duke won by at least 13 points.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
The Blue Devils were on an 11-game winning streak, having gone 24-3 (all three losses on the road), and .889 winning percentage, since their 1939 Rose Bowl defeat. Duke's last loss in Durham, North Carolina, was more than four years prior. The Blue Devils were expected to win by more than two touchdowns and went off as a 4-1 favorite. Some wondered why Oregon State would even make the trip. On the day of the game, the 38-page special edition of the Durham Morning Herald predicted that the Blue Devils would defeat the Beavers 34-6. Oregon State's offensive line outweighed Duke's offensive line by nine pounds.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Before the game, the NBC announcer that called the game, Bill Stern, asserted that the Blue Devils could beat the Beavers by throwing 11 helmets on the field. The comment was heard by members of the Oregon State team at the hotel. After the game, George Zellick told reporters that the team was "hopped up" to win the game based on Stern's comment. One of Oregon State's players, third-string halfback Andy Landforce, dressed for the game.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
However, Stern knew little about the Beavers and only one Far West writer made the trip, so Stern requested that someone from Oregon State work in the booth as a color commentator. Assistant coach Jim Dixon selected Landforce to represent the Beavers in the booth. So, Landforce dressed down and went to the booth to call the game. The weather seemed to favor the visitors. One Duke player claimed that there was more rain than he had ever seen. Another said that the weather could not be worse. The Beavers' Landforce described the weather as "a beautiful gray day." Gene Gray, looking up at the same sky, described the weather as "misty." The temperature was a hair over 40 degrees at kickoff. The precipitation stopped partway through the first period, but it had rained for the 10 hours prior.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
After Oregon State boarded the bus, Stiner did not allow the driver to drive until after he expressed to the Beaver players his opinion that Duke would "smash" Oregon State. Partway between Chapel Hill and Durham, Stiner had the driver and police escort purposefully "get lost." Stiner then staged a shouting match between him and one member of the police escort. Even with Stiner's theatrics, the Beavers still arrived on time for the game. The referee that was supposed to handle the opening coin flip was Lee Eisan.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Eisan was the second-string quarterback for the 1929 California Golden Bears, who lost the Rose Bowl 8-7 to Georgia Tech after Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels ran 69 yards the wrong direction to set up the game-winning Georgia Tech safety. Eisan made a less often talked about blunder. In the third quarter, trailing 8-0, California ran an end around pass on fourth down. The end around sucked all of the Georgia Tech defenders in. Eisan used the misdirection to get behind the defenders and might have scored a touchdown but lost his balance and failed to make the catch. Eisan could not find a silver dollar in North Carolina, so he borrowed a 50-cent piece from Oregon State's captain, Martin Chaves. The Blue Devils won the toss and elected to receive. Before kickoff, there was a moment of silence to honor those lost at Pearl Harbor 25 days before.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Oregon State's Norman Peters kicked the opening kickoff. Duke's Tommy Davis collected the ball at his own six-yard line. He was crushed by the Beavers' Lloyd Wickett and two other Beavers and fumbled at the Blue Devil 28. George Peters recovered at Duke's 29. Dethman passed to George Peters for three yards. Durdan's second down pass was incomplete. Durdan then broke multiple tackles on a six-yard run to set up a fourth-and-one at the Blue Devils' 20. Dethman passed to George Peters again for three yards and a first down. Day ran for two yards. Durdan again threw incomplete.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
On third-and-eight, Durdan ran for a yard down to Duke's 14. Prothro then batted down Oregon State's fourth-and-seven heave to the end zone for a turnover on downs. The teams traded possession most of the first quarter. After the rain stopped, the Beavers drove 33 yards to the Blue Devil 19. Durdan converted one fourth-and-one on the drive. Oregon State managed four yards on the first two plays. On third-and-six at the Blue Devil 15, Oregon State's Donald Durdan went back to pass. With no receiver open, he pump faked and then went off right tackle, walking into the end zone almost untouched. Warren Simas kicked the extra point to put the Beavers up 7-0 with 1:40 left in the first quarter.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
With 11 minutes left in the half, Davis ran 29 yards. A few plays later, Lach ran 25 yards on a reverse. Lach almost ran for a touchdown but Gene Gray was able to drag down Lach from behind at the Oregon State nine. On third-and-goal at the four, Lach ran four yards on a reverse. Bob Gantt's extra point tied the game at seven. Oregon State's ensuing drive resulted in an interception at the 46, which was returned to the Beaver 27.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
On third-and-nine, the Blue Devils had a wide open receiver behind the Beaver defense, but the pass was just beyond the receiver's outstretched fingertips and fell incomplete. Duke ultimately turned the ball over on downs. The Blue Devils would threaten again late in the first half after an Oregon State fumble gave Duke a first down at the Beaver 32. Two plays later, though, the Oregon State defense forced a fumble after a sack, which was recovered by the Beavers. As the half was coming to a close, Duke drove to the Oregon State 42. Two passes were dropped by Blue Devil receivers. Duke's Bobby Rute caught the third at the Beaver 10 and advanced it to the Beaver 5. However, the Blue Devils were unable to get a play off before the halftime whistle sounded, and the teams jogged off the field tied 7-7.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Major Swede Larson, Navy's head coach spoke with sportswriter, Grantland Rice, at halftime and said, "Duke is being hit harder and keener than at any time during the season. Duke doesn't seem to be quite used to this." Stiner told his team, "Boys, we have this one. This is our game, and when...."  At that point, he was interrupted by an inebriated fan looking to urinate in the Beaver locker room.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Oregon State took the second half kickoff. After a first down, the Beavers punted down to Duke's 30. On the Blue Devils' subsequent drive, Lach ran for 21 yards on a fake punt and Davis threw to Gantt for another 16 for a first down at the Oregon State 28. On first down, Duke ran a triple reverse and lost 12 yards. After an incomplete pass, the Beaver defense sacked Davis for a seven-yard loss, which ended the threat. Lach's punt rolled out of bounds at the 15.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
The Beavers drove 73 yards, 42 yards coming on one Dethman to Durdan pass to the Blue Devil 27. Day picked up 11. Oregon State gained four to the Duke 12 before getting pushed back to Blue Devil 15. Simas missed the subsequent 33-yard field goal attempt. The Beavers' defense pushed the Blue Devils back to their own nine. On third down, Duke quick kicked, and the Beavers started their next drive at their own 46. The defenses, which played brilliantly for most of the game let down for the subsequent three-drive stretch.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Gray ran for 24 yards down to the Blue Devils' 30. With four minutes left in the third quarter, Dethman threw a 22-yard pass to Zellick. Zellick evaded multiple tacklers to run the remaining eight yards for a 30-yard touchdown pass. Simas kicked the extra point to put the Beavers up 14-7. Duke would respond on the very next drive, getting 48 yards on two Lach reverses and 15 yards for unnecessary roughness. On the next play, the Blue Devils scored on a one-yard run by Winston Siegfried with two minutes left in the third quarter.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Tommy Prothro kicked the extra point to knot the game at 14. Duke's coach, Wallace Wade, who had won the 1926 Rose Bowl while at Alabama after a comeback against Washington, remarked to an assistant that, "It looks like 1926 all over again." 1942 would play out differently than 1926. In the following drive, Durdan returned the kickoff back to the Beaver 23. Day lost six but the Blue Devils were flagged for unnecessary roughness to the 32. With less than a minute left in the third quarter, Dethman found streaking reserve halfback, Gene Gray, on a 40-yard pass.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Safety Tommy Davis just mistimed an interception. Gray faked inside and went outside, which confused Moffatt Storer, the Blue Devil cornerback, so badly that he fell down. The Duke safety on the far side of the field took a good angle, but Gray was simply too fast and outran the safety the final 28 yards into the end zone. The 68-yard pass play was the longest in Rose Bowl history and would remain the longest pass play for more than 20 years. The extra point would be blocked, leaving the door open for a Duke comeback. The 20 points that Oregon State scored were the most scored on the Blue Devils since 1930, the year before Wade became head football coach. It was the most points scored against a Wade-coached team since 1928.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
The 14 points that Duke scored were the most that the Oregon State's defense had given up all year. The Beaver defense seemed resolved to make sure the 20-points the offense had put up would stand up. Duke's offense would cross into Beaver territory three times in the fourth-quarter, but the Beavers would not break, intercepting two passes and recovering a fumble. After a Duke punt went out of bounds at the Oregon State two, the Beavers opted to quick kick. However, Durden mishandled the snap.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Rather than attempting the punt, Durden tried to advance the ball out of the end zone, but Mike Karmazin caught Durden before Durden was able to do so for a safety with less than 10 minutes left in the game. The Blue Devils ensuing drive ended on a fumble at the Beaver 29. What appeared to be a great Oregon State return of the fumble was nullified by an inadvertent whistle. With two minutes left, the Blue Devils started a drive at their own 33. Durdan picked off a 30-yard Davis pass and returned it to the Beaver 40.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
On first down, Day lost five yards. Durdan ran for three yards. Rather than attempt another play on third-and-12, Durdan punted 38 yards out of bounds at Duke's 26. With less than a minute left, Rute hit Jim Smith on 28-yard pass play to give the Blue Devils a first down at the Beaver 46. Duke hurled two passes toward the Beaver end zone. Day broke up the first. The second also fell incomplete. On the final play of the game, Wade called a Lach reverse. Prothro audibled and called for a Davis pass play. Dethman came up with a game-saving interception. The Beavers won 20-16.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, Duke
Oregon State outgained Duke 302-295 with a 148-73 edge in the air. The Beavers also out-punted the Blue Devils. Even factoring in the 1942 Rose Bowl, Oregon State's defense was statistically the best Beaver defense in 15 years.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Donald Durdan ran for 54 yards and a touchdown, passed, punted, and collected one interception. He was named the game's most valuable player. Bob Dethman also distinguished himself by throwing for two touchdowns and coming up with the interception that ended the game. The 1942 Rose Bowl remains the only Beavers' Rose Bowl victory. It also remains the only time the two programs have played each other.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Although many others argue that Columbia's 1934 victory over Stanford was bigger, Sid Feder of the Associated Press labeled it the biggest upset in the Rose Bowl's early history.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Referee Lee Eisan, who borrowed a 50-cent piece from Oregon State's Martin Chaves to conduct the coin flip, made it back to Berkeley, California with Chaves' 50-cent piece in hand, upset that he had failed to return the coin.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
The East–West Shrine Game has been played after every college football season since 1925. The game started in San Francisco, California and, prior to 2006, would be played in the Bay Area every year, except for two years. The first year outside of the Bay Area was 1942. As a result of the prohibition against playing football in West Coast stadiums, the East–West Shrine Game was moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. The West's coach was Washington State's Billy Sewell.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
A little more than two months prior, Sewell and the Cougars had dealt the Beavers the Beavers' largest loss of the year, a 7-0 decision in Pullman, Washington. Oregon State attended the postgame banquet with Duke and left Durham, North Carolina, at 12:40 a.m. on January 2, 1941, bound for New Orleans. The Beaver Express left Durham and stopped in New Orleans for the game on January 3, 1942. The game ended in a 6-6 tie. Many were concerned that the East–West Shrine Game would be the last football game "in a generation."


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Stiner left the team in New Orleans to visit his parents in Nebraska. On the way back to Corvallis, the Beaver Express stopped in Houston and San Antonio. In El Paso, some of the players purchased alcohol, in order to last them to Tucson, because New Mexico was a dry state. Oregon State was able to visit the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. After a stop in Sacramento on January 7, Durdan and Simas disembarked from the Beaver Express to visit family in Northern California. Both were honored at the Vance Hotel in Eureka, California. The Beaver Express arrived back in Albany on January 8, 1942 at 5:16 a.m.  Over the previous 19 days, 11 hours, and 31 minutes, the assistant coaches and most of the members of the team traveled 7,384 miles, through 24 states.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Grantland Rice rode out of Durham, North Carolina with Oregon State. In his article after the game, Rice, in explaining why Oregon State had won, said that the Beavers had played a much harder schedule than the Blue Devils. Further, he said that Oregon State "had been used to hard battling – and could give it and take it. They had been hit hard all season, while Duke had been on a flock of picnics, largely in soft meadows."


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
Stiner returned to campus on January 16, 1942. 700 fans turned out to fete Stiner and the Oregon State players. Governor Sprague was one of the principal speakers, referring to the Beavers as the "Champions of America!"


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
The Beavers ended up receiving $81,267.22 as their share for the Durham Rose Bowl. This was more than the $50,000.00 that they expected to receive from the Pasadena Rose Bowl.


1941 Oregon State Beavers football team, Game summaries, After the season
After the 1942 Allied victory in the Battle of Midway and the end of the Japanese offensives in the Pacific Theater during 1942, it was deemed that the West Coast was no longer vulnerable to attack, and the Rose Bowl game continued on in the Rose Bowl Stadium.


1941 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1941 Oregon Webfoots football team was an American football team that represented the University of Oregon in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1941 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Tex Oliver, the Webfoots compiled a 5–5 record (4–4 against PCC opponents), finished in fifth place in the PCC, and were outscored by a total of 184 to 136. The team played its home games at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.


1941 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1941 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 35th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played one-round match for the title.


1941 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1941 Ottawa Rough Riders season
The 1941 Ottawa Rough Riders finished in 1st place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 5–1 record, but failed to defend as Grey Cup champions as the team lost the 29th Grey Cup to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.


1941 PGA Championship
The 1941 PGA Championship was the 24th PGA Championship, held July 7–13 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Englewood, Colorado (now Cherry Hills Village), just south of Denver. Then a match play championship, Vic Ghezzi won his only major title over defending champion Byron Nelson in 38 holes. Nelson defeated Ralph Guldahl, Ben Hogan, and Gene Sarazen on successive days to reach his third consecutive final.


1941 PGA Championship
Seven of the eight quarterfinalists in 1941 won major titles during their careers. Sam Snead was the medalist in the stroke play qualifier at 138 (−4); he lost in the quarterfinals but won the first of his three titles the following year.


1941 PGA Championship
Due to World War II, this was the last "full field" at the PGA Championship until 1946. The match play bracket was scaled back from 64 competitors to 32 for 1942, when it and the Masters were the only majors held. The PGA Championship was the only major in 1944 and 1945; none were played in 1943 and the other three returned in 1946.


1941 PGA Championship
This was the last time the final match in the PGA Championship went to extra holes. The PGA Championship changed to stroke play in 1958 and its first two playoffs in 1961 and 1967 were 18 holes, before conversion to sudden-death, first used in 1977 and last in 1996. The present three-hole aggregate playoff made its debut in 2000.


1941 PGA Championship
This championship was the second major played at this course; the U.S. Open was held at Cherry Hills three years earlier in 1938, won by Guldahl. It later hosted the U.S. Open in 1960 and 1978, and the PGA Championship in 1985. The average elevation of the course exceeds 5,300 feet (1,620 m) above sea level.


1941 PGA Championship, Format
The match play format at the PGA Championship in 1941 called for 12 rounds (216 holes) in seven days:


1941 Pacific Tigers football team
The 1941 Pacific Tigers football team represented the College of the Pacific (COP) during the 1941 college football season.


1941 Pacific Tigers football team
COP competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The team was led by head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, and played home games at Baxter Stadium in Stockton, California. This was Stagg's 52nd year as a head coach and his ninth at College of the Pacific. The Tigers finished as champion of the FWC, with four wins and seven losses (4–7, 3–0 FWC). Overall, the Tigers were outscored by their opponents 72–100 for the season.


1941 Pacific Tigers football team
During a September 24 game against Hawaii in Stockton, California, a distressed army flying cadet tried to land his plane at the stadium, diving for 30 minutes "a few feet over the heads of terrified spectators and players and clipped the stadium power line, darkening the field." The cadet ultimately landed his plane safely in the stadium parking lot.


1941 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL
No College of the Pacific players were selected in the 1942 NFL Draft.


1941 Pacific hurricane season
The 1941 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1941. Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms were of no threat to land. 1941 season was the last season before Monthly Weather Review stopped publishing temporarily due to World War II.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
On July 3, a tropical cyclone was spotted, and a pressure of 99.55 kPa (29.40 inHg) was reported. It possibly headed northeast, towards Cape Corrientes, as a tropical cyclone was spotted in that direction on July 6. However, it is possible that these observations were actually of two different tropical cyclones.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Two
A tropical cyclone was spotted on July 15, south of Mexico. The next day, another cyclone was spotted further to the west. On July 18, weather possibly associated with a tropical cyclone was reported south of Cabo San Lucas. It is unknown whether either one of these two latter observations are of the same system as reported on July 15.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Four
On August 16, a tropical cyclone formed well off the coast of Mexico. It tracked generally northwest, and dissipated in the central Pacific north-northeast of the Hawaiian Islands on August 24. The lowest pressure reported by a ship was 29.34 inHg (99.4 kPa).


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
A tropical storm was first reported on September 8. The storm quickly intensified, becoming a mid-level tropical storm the next day. Subsequently, the storm attained its lowest reported pressure of 1,001.4 mbar (29.57 inHg). It slowly moved northwestward, and entered the Gulf of California. After slamming into the southern portion of Baja California Sur,< when winds were measured at 85 mph (135 km/h). The hurricane was last observed on September 12.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Strong winds and heavy rain lashed the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula for 48 hours, lasting until late September 12. The wind destroyed poorer sections of La Paz and nearby villages. Two villages, Santiago and Triunfo, were completely destroyed. The torrential rains damaged many highways across the peninsula and left thousands homeless. The tuna canning industry declined rapidly in San José del Cabo.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
The port town of Cabo San Lucas was washed away and mostly destroyed due to flooding Furthermore, "great loss of life" was reported. Initially following the system, activity among surrounding areas of the village ceased. As of 1966, this tropical cyclone is regarded as one of the worst storms to affect the city. Meanwhile, one of the town's suburbs was forced to relocate 1 mi (1.6 km) inland.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Five
Throughout the peninsula, 15 people were killed, and many were injured. According to press reports from Mexico City, the hurricane was considered the worst system to affect the state since the dawn of the 20th century. Moisture from this hurricane passed into the southwestern United States, where it caused rain of up to 1 in (25 mm) in the mountains and deserts of California. From September 16 to 22, cloudiness and showers were reported along the southern portion of the state.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Six and Seven
A storm was first spotted September 17, and another was reported nearby the next day. These two systems then merged. The combined tropical cyclone subsequently became a very intense hurricane on September 19. That day, a ship passing through the eye reported a rapidly falling pressure that bottomed out at 27.67 inHg (93.7 kPa). At that time, the low was the strongest hurricane in the basin since 1939 and second strongest ever recorded. The hurricane then weakened, and entered the Gulf of California on September 20, at which point it was lost track of by meteorologists.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Disturbance Eight
Later in the month, from September 21 to September 24, a tropical disturbance was noted south of the Mexican coast, but failed to developed further.


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nine
A tropical storm was reported on November 2 and 4. A ship reported a pressure of 100.07 kPa (29.55 inHg).


1941 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ten
Another tropical storm was detected on November 3. It was reportedly very small. A ship reported a pressure of 100.44 kPa (29.66 inHg). This cyclone was unusually close to the equator, at latitude 7°30′.


1941 Pacific typhoon season
The 1941 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1941, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1941 Pacific hurricane season. There were 28 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific in 1941.


1941 Pacific typhoon season, Storms, Tropical Storm Two
The system developed east of Taiwan. It moved in a northeastward direction and it finally dissipated on the 5th. It is unknown whether the storm's peak strength was at a strong tropical depression or weak tropical storm. The storm affected the Ryukyu Islands.


1941 Pacific typhoon season, Storms, Tropical Storm Twenty-five
The storm developed north of Palawan, Philippines on the 20th of October. It moved westwards in the South China Sea and it dissipated two days later.


1941 Palestine Cup
The 1941 Palestine Cup (Hebrew: הגביע הארץ-ישראלי, HaGavia HaEretz-Israeli) was the twelfth season of Israeli Football Association's nationwide football cup competition. The defending holders were Beitar Tel Aviv.


1941 Palestine Cup
The competition was delayed by disagreements within the EIFA, and instead of its usual start in early 1941 and finish at the end of the 1940–41 season, matches started on 20 September 1941, at the start of the 1941–42 season.


1941 Palestine Cup
This competition saw a rise in the number of British and Arab teams, in part due to the heavy military presence in Palestine during the war. Among these teams were some ad hoc teams, assembled for the competition and named after the chairmen or captain. Despite this, and for the fourth time since the competition started, the two top Tel Aviv teams, Maccabi and Hapoel met in the final. Maccabi won 2–1 to earn its 4th cup.


1941 Paraguayan Primera División season
The 1941 season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top category of Paraguayan football, was played by 11 teams. The national champions were Cerro Porteño.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks
On the night of October 2–3, 1941, six Paris synagogues were attacked and damaged by explosive devices places by their doors between 2:05 and 4:05 am. The perpetrators were identified but not arrested.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History
On the night of October 2–3, 1941, explosive devices were placed in front of six synagogues causing damage to them.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
Helmut Knochen, Chief Commandant of the Sicherheitspolizei (Nazi Occupying Security Services) ordered the attacks on the Paris syagogues.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
Members of the Milice placed the bombs. At the Synagogue de la rue Copernic, there was partial destruction of the building (the window jamb and the sill were destroyed and the windows were blown out) that the community rebuilt in 1946. In a journal entry dated September 11, 1942, writer Hélène Berr, wrote:


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
After wandering all afternoon (Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Sorbonne, Condorcet), I went to the Temple for Rosh Hashana. The service was celebrated in the oratory and the marriage hall, as the main temple had been destroyed by the Doriotists. It was lamentable. No young people. Nothing but old people, the only representative of the "olden times" was Madame Baur.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
The Revolutionary Social Movement (MSR), a Far-right political party was also implicated in the attacks. From research by Patrick Fournie (2016) :


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
The Revolutionary Social Movement of Eugène Deloncle, former leader of the Cagoule, also recruited several thousand members and was known above all as the executor on behalf of the SIPO-SD in the attacks on the Parisian synagogues on the night of October 2–3, 1941. Deloncle nevertheless lost the support of his protectors and was executed by the Gestapo in November 1943.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
After the fall of France and the creation of the Vichy Regime, a majority of former "Cagoulards" became engaged in collaborationist activity, often under the guise of the Revolutionary Social Movement – the MSR – created by Eugène Deloncle in Autumn 1940. The small group, later integrated into the National Popular Rally of Marcel Deat, ceased to exist by 1942. It was this group that was respnsible "without a doubt, among others, for the attacks against synagogues in Paris and the assassination of former government minister Marx Dormoy.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, The attacks
Hans Sommer, agent with the Nazi intelligence services in charge of France, contacted Eugène Deloncle in 1941. Sommer provided the materials that Deloncle used in the attacks against the synagogues.,,.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Reporting
According to the Vichy correspondent of the Swiss newspaper Feuille d'Avis de Neuchâtel et du Vignoble neuchâtelois, on Saturday October 4, 1941:


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Reporting
On the night of Thursday and Friday in Paris between 1 am and 5 am, attacks took place against seven synagogues. The Synagogue de la rue de Tournelle [sic], Synagogue de la rue Montespan [sic], Synagogue de la rue Copernic, Synagogue de Notre-Dame de Lazaret [sic],Synagogue de Notre-Dame des victoires and a sixth located on a road in which we don't yet know the name were attacked. The damage is considerable, as just the walls remain. The bomb at the Synagogue de la rue Pavée, near City Hall, was removed in time. Two people were injured. Admiral Dard, Prefect of Police, arrived on the scene and is leading the investigation. The attacks took places the day after the Day of Atonement.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Reporting
Since last July, this is the third time that such attacks have taken place. The first was in Marseille in mid-July, the second in Vichy last August 9. It is noted that the third attack against the Israelite Temples took place on the night following Yom Kippur.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Neither surprise nor emotion
A police report by the Renseignements généraux dated October 4, 1941, said:


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Neither surprise nor emotion
Generally, the Parisian public don't like the Jews, but they are tolerated. Traders often wished to be rid of the Israelites because they were in great competition with them. In fact, the severe measures taken against the Jews by the German authorities and the French government has not raise any protests among the general population but many people find the violent anti-semitism of the Parisian press excessive, exceeding even their own antipathy towards Jews.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Neither surprise nor emotion
The opinion of most people – particularly in Catholic circles – is that adversaries of the Jews generalize too much and that such anti-semitism will lead to regrettable excesses. Therefore, the announcement of the attacks on local synagogues caused neither surprise nor emotion among the public. "It was bound to happen," we heard with a certain air of indifference.


1941 Paris synagogue attacks, History, Silence from the Church
Following the attacks on the Paris synagogues, the Archbishop of paris Emmanuel Suhard, remained silent. In the Free zone, th Association of French Rabbis expressed surprise at this silence. Several bishops reached out to the rabbis with support, following the example of Cardinal Jules-Géraud Saliège of Toulouse, who wrote a letter of support to Rabbi Moïse Cassorla,


1941 Paris–Tours
The 1941 Paris–Tours was the 35th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 11 May 1941. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Paul Maye.


1941 Penn Quakers football team
The 1941 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1941 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach George Munger, the team compiled a 7–1 record, outscored opponents by a total of 180 to 55, and was ranked No. 15 in the final AP Poll. The team's lone setback was a 13–6 loss to Navy.


1941 Penn Quakers football team
Back Gene Davis was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team, and end Bernie Kuczynski was named to the second team. Other key players included halfback Bob Odell, fullback Bert Stiff, and Bob Brundage.


1941 Penn Quakers football team
Munger was Penn's head coach for 16 years; he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.


1941 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 1941 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Pennsylvania State College as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In its 12th season under head coach Bob Higgins, the team compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 200 to 78. The team played its home games in New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.


1941 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
Penn State's Len Krouse was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team back on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.


1941 Peruvian Primera División
The 1941 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Universitario. No team was relegated as First Division grew to 10 teams. From 1931 until 1942 the points system was W:3, D:2, L:1, walk-over:0.


1941 Petersfield by-election
The Petersfield by-election of 1941 was held on 22 February 1941. The by-election was held due to the appointment as Governor of Burma of the incumbent Conservative MP, Reginald Dorman-Smith. It was won by the unopposed Conservative candidate George Jeffreys.


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season
The 1941 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing eighth in the American League with a record of 64 wins and 90 losses.


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season
The 1941 Philadelphia Eagles season was their ninth in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 1–10, winning two games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season
Eagle make move back to larger Municipal Stadium from Shibe Park where they played in 1940.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season
In late 1940, the football Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney bought half interest in the Eagles and sold the Pirates to Alexis Thompson. Before the start of the 1941 season Rooney and Thompson swap city and NFL rights for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Pirates players of 1940 and before are now Philadelphia Eagles and the Philadelphia Eagles players are now members of the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season
Coach Greasy Neal has the Eagles hold training camp in the High School Bowl, in Two Rivers, Wisconsin about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Green Bay, Wisconsin and 90 miles north of Milwaukeeon Lake Michigan.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season, NFL Draft
The 1941 NFL Draft was held on December 10, 1940. The Eagles would get the 1st pick in the 22 rounds of the draft. Because these player were drafted before the Eagles and Steelers franchise swap of cities, these players ended up playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1941. The Pittsburgh draft picks would come to Philadelphia.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season, NFL Draft
The Chicago Bears (From Philadelphia Eagles) had the number one pick in the draft. They choose Tom Harmon, the 1940 Heisman Trophy winner, a Halfback out of the University of Michigan


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Off Season, Player selections
The table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the Eagles' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away. These picks were the players that the Pittsburgh Pirates made before the team swap between owners.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps
The Eagles played 11 games over an NFL season that was 14 weeks long. The season started Sunday, September 7 and ended Sunday, December 7, 1941.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 1 Bye
The Eagles had the week off as the NFL only scheduled 1 game this week end, Pittsburgh at Cleveland Rams.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 3 at Steelers
The Eagles travel across the state of Pennsylvania to play the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers for the first time since the franchises swapped cities.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 7 vs Redskins
The defending 1940 NFL Eastern Division Champions, Washington Redskins make a visit to Philadelphia to play the Eagles. Washington lost the 1940 NFL Championship Game to the Chicago Bears 73–0. The Eagles will host the Bears in week 12 and travel to Washington, D.C. to re-play the Redskins in week 14 to close out the 1941 season.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 10 vs Steelers
The Eagles' across state rivals return to Philadelphia for a rematch of a game of game won by the Eagles played in week 3. The Eagles enter the game with 2 wins and the Steelers are winless.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 14 at Redskins
At the Eagles – Washington Redskins game in Washington, D.C. military personnel and US Gov't officials were getting paged concerning the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the US territory of Hawaii. The attack started about time of kickoff for game.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Roster
(All time List of Philadelphia Eagles players in franchise history)


1941 Philadelphia Eagles season, Roster
The 1941 Philadelphia Eagles roster is made up of 39 players which 32 are rookies. The average years in NFL is 1/2 a year.


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season
The 1941 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Phillies finished eighth in the National League with a record of 43 wins and 111 losses.


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season
On July 1, the Phillies played the Dodgers in Brooklyn; the game was televised by WNBT in New York (now WNBC), making the ballgame the first program aired by a commercial TV station in the United States. Although the Phillies finished dead last and the Dodgers later won the pennant, Philadelphia won the game 6–4, in 10 innings.


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on November 11, 1941, with the ruling Nacionalista Party retaining a majority of the seats. Still, the party was prevented a clean sweep when three independents were elected. The elected congressmen were supposed to serve from December 30, 1941 to December 30, 1945, but World War II broke out and Imperial Japan invaded the Philippines on December 8, 1941, setting up a puppet Second Philippine Republic which then organized the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic, whose members were elected in 1943.


1941 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The Philippines was liberated by the Allied Powers in 1945 and the acts of the Second Republic were nullified; elected representatives who survived the war and were not interred for collaboration with the Japanese served until those who won in elections that were held in 1946 took office.


1941 Philippine Senate election
Election to the Senate were held on November 11, 1941 in the Philippines. The Senate was re-instituted after amendments to the constitution restored the bicameral legislature last used in 1935.


1941 Philippine Senate election
The elected senators would start to serve only in 1946 as they were not able to take office on December 30, 1941 as Imperial Japan invaded the country on December 8, 1941 at the onset of World War II.


1941 Philippine Senate election, Electoral system
The electorate voted with plurality-at-large voting for the first time for the Senate; the voters have the option of writing the party name on the ballot and all 24 candidates from the party receive votes; another option is by voting individually for each candidate. Also, the former senatorial districts were not used; instead voting was done nationwide as one at-large district. The succeeding Senate elections would be held every two years, with eight seats to be disputed in every election.


1941 Philippine Senate election, Electoral system
The next election was to be on 1943, but due to the intervention of World War II, no elections were until 1946, where the seats supposedly up in 1943 and 1945 were disputed. The winners of the 1941 election were not seated until 1946. In the intervening years, the Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, put up a unicameral National Assembly.


1941 Philippine Senate election, Results, Per candidate
While the tally of votes have been lost in history, some sources tell where each candidate finished in the tally. Claro M. Recto finished first, while Mariano Jesus Cuenco finished fifth, and Vicente Rama finished 16th.


1941 Philippine Senate election, Results, Per candidate
Not all candidates of the same party finished with the same number of votes, as some voted individually per candidate, instead of just writing the party name, and some didn't complete the 24 names if they did choose to vote individually per candidate.


1941 Philippine general election
General elections were held in the Philippines on November 11, 1941. Incumbent President Manuel Luis Quezon won an unprecedented second partial term as President of the Philippines via a landslide. His running mate, Vice President Sergio Osmeña also won via landslide. The elected officials however, did not serve their terms from 1942 to 1945 due to World War II. In 1943, a Japanese-sponsored Republic was established and appointed José P. Laurel as president. From 1943 to 1945, the Philippines had two presidents. Quezon died in 1944 due to tuberculosis and was replaced by Sergio Osmeña.


1941 Philippine presidential election
The 1941 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on November 11, 1941, a month before the Attack on Pearl Harbor; and subsequently, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, which brought the Philippines and the United States to the Second World War. Incumbent President Manuel Luis Quezon won an unprecedented second partial term as President of the Philippines in a landslide. His running mate, Vice President Sergio Osmeña, also won via landslide. The elected officials however, did not serve their terms from 1942 to 1945 due to World War II. In 1943, a Japanese-sponsored Republic was established and appointed Jose P. Laurel as president. From 1943 to 1945, the Philippines had two presidents. Quezon died in 1944 of tuberculosis and was replaced by Sergio Osmeña.


1941 Philippine presidential election, Results
Quezon and Osmeña performed better than their 1935 poll performance, winning all the provinces. Their feat as a tandem is unmatched to date.


1941 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The 1941 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In their third year under head coach Charley Bowser, the Panthers compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored by a total of 171 to 82.


1941 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
Guard Ralph Fife was selected as a first-team All-American by the Associated Press (AP). Fife was also selected by the AP as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team. Halfback Edgar Jones was named to the second team on the All-Eastern team.


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1941 Pittsburgh Pirates was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the National League with a record of 81–73, 19 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Pittsburgh Steelers season
The 1941 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 9th season in the National Football League (NFL). In the offseason, the team had been sold and then re-acquired (more or less) in a bizarre series of transactions which has come to be referred to as the "Pennsylvania Polka". The roster consisted of many players who had played for the Philadelphia Eagles the previous year, who joined the Steelers as a result of the moves.


1941 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason
Bert Bell became half-owner of the team and he named himself the head coach. After starting the season with two straight losses, Aldo "Buff" Donelli was brought in. Donelli was acting concurrently as head coach at Duquesne University, and when the team's schedules prevented him from fulfilling both roles, he stepped down as the Steelers' coach in favor of Walt Kiesling. The team held training camp in Hershey, Pennsylvania.


1941 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1941 Pittsburgh mayoral election
The mayoral election of 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1941. Incumbent Democratic Party Conn Scully won a second full term by a narrow margin.


1941 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Background
Scully had gained a reputation as a weak mayor and his Republican opponent, wealthy attorney and former Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Harmar Denny (a future Congressman), hammered Scully for being a puppet of the city's increasingly powerful Democratic machine. Despite these allegations, Scully remained closely aligned with state party chairman (and future mayor) David Lawrence; while this may have cost him some votes, it gave him enough support from the Democrats' New Deal labor base to put Scully over the top. Republicans contested the result in court, but a judge dismissed the suit.


1941 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Results
*These numbers, reported a day after the election, were officially revised later in the month. After a court found irregularities, it ordered further corrections.


1941 Pontefract by-election
A by-election was held on 24 July 1941 for the British House of Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract in Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Adam Hills, who had held the seat since the 1935 general election.


1941 Portland Pilots football team
The 1941 Portland Pilots football team was an American football team that represented the University of Portland as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In its fifth year under head coach Robert L. Mathews, the team compiled a 3–5 record. The team played its home games at Multnomah Stadium in Portland, Oregon.


1941 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team
The 1941 Presbyterian Blue Hose football team was an American football team that represented Presbyterian College as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1941 college football season. Led by head coach Lonnie McMillian, the team compiled a 6–3 record (5–0 against SIAA opponents) and won the SIAA championship. Verne Church and Lloyd Evans were the team captains. The team played its home games at Old Bailey Stadium in Clinton, South Carolina.


1941 Primera División de Chile
The 1941 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Profesional was Chilean first tier’s 9th season. Colo-Colo was the tournament’s champion, winning its 3rd title.


1941 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1941 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1941 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Tad Wieman, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 152 to 64. The team played its home games at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey.


1941 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 1941 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season. In their fifth season under head coach Allen Elward, the Boilermakers compiled a 2–5–1 record, finished in a tie for seventh place in the Big Ten Conference with a 1–3 record against conference opponents, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 62 to 27.


1941 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 March 1941 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a fourth term in office.


1941 Queensland state election, Results
The election saw a swing to Labor from the 1938 election, although it lost three seats.


1941 Queensland state election, Results
Queensland state election, 29 March 1941Legislative Assembly << 1938–1944 >>


1941 Queensland state election, Seats changing party representation
This table lists changes in party representation at the 1941 election.


1941 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
The 1941 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 15th series of the Railway Cup, an annual hurling championship organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The championship took place between 16 February and 16 March 1941. It was contested by Connacht, Leinster and Munster.


1941 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
On 16 March 1941, Leinster won the Railway Cup after a 2–05 to 2–04 defeat of Munster in the final at Croke Park, Dublin. It was their 6th Railway Cup title overall and their first since 1936.


1941 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
Munster's Jack Lynch was the Railway Cup's top scorer with 2-02.


1941 Red Army Purge
Between October 1940 and February 1942, in spite of the ongoing German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army, in particular the Soviet Air Force, as well as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Stalin.


1941 Red Army Purge, Background
The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrenty Beria, started a new purge that initially hit the People's Commissariat of Ammunition, People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, and People's Commissariat of Armaments. High-level officials admitted guilt, typically under torture, then testified against others. Victims were arrested on fabricated charges of anti-Soviet activity, sabotage, and spying. The wave of arrests in the military-related industries continued well into 1941.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge
In April–May 1941, a Politburo inquiry into the high accident rate in the Air Force led to the dismissal of several commanders, including the head of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Pavel Rychagov. In May, a German Junkers Ju 52 landed in Moscow, undetected by the ADF beforehand, leading to massive arrests among the Air Force leadership. The NKVD soon focused attention on them and began investigating an alleged anti-Soviet conspiracy of German spies in the military, centered around the Air Force and linked to the conspiracies of 1937–1938. Suspects were transferred in early June from the custody of the Military Counterintelligence to the NKVD. Further arrests continued well after the German attack on the Soviet Union, which started on June 22, 1941.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge, In wartime
During the first months of the war, scores of commanders, most notably General Dmitry Pavlov, were made scapegoats for failures. Pavlov was arrested and executed after his forces were heavily defeated in the early days of the campaign. Only two of the accused were spared: People's Commissar of Armaments Boris Vannikov (released in July) and Deputy People's Commissar of Defense General Kirill Meretskov (released in September). The latter had admitted guilt, under torture.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge, In wartime
About 300 commanders, including Lieutenant General Nikolay Klich, Lieutenant General Robert Klyavinsh, and Major General Sergey Chernykh, were executed on October 16, 1941, during the Battle of Moscow. Others were sent to Kuybyshev, provisional capital of the Soviet Union, on October 17.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge, In wartime
On October 28 twenty individuals were summarily shot near Kuybyshev on Lavrentiy Beria's personal order, including Colonel Generals Alexander Loktionov and Grigory Shtern, Lieutenant Generals Fyodor Arzhenukhin, Ivan Proskurov, Yakov Smushkevich, and Pavel Rychagov with his wife, as well as several individuals who had been previously arrested during the immediate aftermath of the Great Purge in 1939, prior to the Red Army Purge of 1941, including politicians Filipp Goloshchyokin and Mikhail Kedrov.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge, In wartime
In November, Beria successfully lobbied Stalin to simplify the procedure for carrying out death sentences issued by local military courts so that they would no longer require approval of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court and Politburo for the first time since the end of the Great Purge. The right to issue extrajudicial death sentences was granted to the Special Council of the NKVD.


1941 Red Army Purge, 1941 Purge, In wartime
With the approval of Stalin, 46 persons, including 17 generals, among them Lieutenant Generals Pyotr Pumpur, Pavel Alekseyev, Konstantin Gusev, Yevgeny Ptukhin, Nikolai Trubetskoy, Pyotr Klyonov, Ivan Selivanov, Major General Ernst Schacht, and People's Commissar of Ammunition Ivan Sergeyev, were sentenced to death by the Special Council. They were executed on the Day of the Red Army, February 23, 1942.


1941 Red Army Purge, Aftermath
On February 4, 1942, Beria and his ally Georgy Malenkov, both members of the State Defense Committee, were assigned to supervise production of aircraft, armaments, and ammunition.


1941 Red Army Purge, Aftermath
Many victims were exonerated posthumously during de-Stalinization in the 1950s–1960s. In December 1953 a special secret session of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, itself without due process, found Beria guilty of terrorism for the extrajudicial executions of October 1941 and other crimes, and was given the death penalty as his sentence.


1941 Rhode Island State Rams football team
The 1941 Rhode Island State Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as a member of the New England Conference during the 1941 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Beck, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record (2–0 against conference opponents) and won the New England Conference championship. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.


1941 Rice Owls football team
The 1941 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1941 college football season. In its second season under head coach Jess Neely, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record (3–2–1 against SWC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 167 to 121. The team played its home games at Rice Field in Houston.


1941 Rice Owls football team
Guard Art Goforth was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Southwest Conference football team.


1941 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1941 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Richmond in the Southern Conference during the 1941 college football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Glenn Thistlethwaite, the Spiders compiled a 2–7 record (0–6 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and were outscored by a total of 184 to 57. The team played its home games at City Stadium in Richmond, Virginia.


1941 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix
The 1941 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix was a Formula Libre motor race held at Gávea on 28 September 1941.


1941 Rose Bowl
The 1941 Rose Bowl was the 27th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday, January 1. The undefeated and second-ranked Stanford Indians of the Pacific Coast Conference defeated the #7 Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Six Conference, 21–13.


1941 Rose Bowl
This was Nebraska's first bowl game and the eighth for Stanford, all in the Rose Bowl. Through 2020, it remains the only meeting between these football programs.


1941 Rose Bowl, Teams, Nebraska Cornhuskers
Nebraska was 8–1 going into the Rose Bowl and ranked seventh in the nation; their only blemish was a 13–7 loss at  top-ranked Minnesota, who did not play in a bowl game. After the announcement of the Rose Bowl acceptance, the celebration that followed lasted for 24 hours in Lincoln, according to newspaper reports. University classes were canceled, and students stormed the state capitol, demanding that the governor lead the singing of the school song, "There Is No Place Like Nebraska." Led by fourth-year head coach Biff Jones, the Cornhuskers had two All-Americans: Warren Alfson and Forrest Behm.


1941 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford Indians
Stanford was led by first-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy, who would bring a revolutionary football style called the T formation. This new style of playing was filled with tricks, fakes, and pitchouts that helped the Indians to a perfect 9–0 regular season and a nickname of the "Wow Boys." The new features of the style involved quarterback Frankie Albert taking the snap directly from the center.


1941 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford Indians
The year before in 1939, the Indians were winless in their seven conference games under seventh-year head coach Tiny Thornhill and finished 1–7–1 overall.


1941 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Highlight of the game
The highlight of the game is often considered to be one of the best plays in Rose Bowl history. The Indians drove from their own 23-yard line to the Cornhusker one-yard line before a valiant goal-line stand by Nebraska denied Stanford the end zone. Stanford had four cracks at the end zone from the one-yard line, but the Cornhuskers held each time.


1941 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Highlight of the game
Trailing by one point late in the third quarter, Nebraska took over on their own one and opted to punt on first down, which started the play of the game. Kmetovic took the punt at the Cornhusker 40-yard line and dashed and darted his way to the end zone, giving Stanford a 21–13 lead, which was the final score.


1941 Rose Bowl, Game summary, Statistics
Note: Both schools report slightly different stats, these stats are from Nebraska's records


1941 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
This game is generally considered the clincher that convinced football pundits that the T formation style was the offense of the future.


1941 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
As the program's first bowl, the game retains a special place in Cornhuskers history; Hall of Fame head coach Bob Devaney arrived in 1962 and used to joke that he'd been in the state several years before he found out that Nebraska had actually lost the 1941 Rose Bowl.


1941 Rose Bowl, Trivia
This game is described in detail by David Dodge in his mystery novel, Shear the Black Sheep, published in 1942.


1941 Rose Poly Engineers football team
The 1941 Rose Poly Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Rose Polytechnic Institute as a member of the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference during the 1941 college football season. In its 14th season under head coach Phil Brown, the team compiled a 7–0 record (4–0 against IIC opponents), won the conference championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 229 to 34.


1941 Rose Poly Engineers football team
Freshman halfback Eddie McGovern scored 103 points (16 touchdowns, 7 extra points) for the season, including 34 points in the final game of the season against Milton. Halfback Harold Bowsher added 55 points. Four Rose Poly players were selected by The Indianapolis News to its All-Indiana college football teams: McGovern (1st team); Bowsher (2nd team); tackle Martin Cavanaugh (1st team); and back Earl Michaels (1st team).


1941 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1941 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1941 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Harvey Harman, the Queensmen compiled a 7–2 record and outscored their opponents 174 to 85. The team's two losses were against Syracuse (7–49) and Lafayette (0–16).


1941 Rutgers Queensmen football team
In February 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Rutgers head coach Harman, who had led the team to a 26–7–1 record from 1938 to 1941, joined the United States Navy. Harman missed the 1942 to 1945 seasons due to military service.


1941 SANFL Grand Final
The 1941 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Norwood beat Sturt 100 to 71.


1941 SANFL season
The 1941 South Australian National Football League season was the 62nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1941 SMU Mustangs football team
The 1941 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1941 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Matty Bell, the Mustangs compiled a 5–5 record (2–4 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 169 to 106. The team played its home games at Ownby Stadium in the University Park suburb of Dallas.


1941 SMU Mustangs football team
Fullback Preston Johnson was selected by both the Associated Press and the United Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Southwest Conference football team.


1941 Saint Louis Billikens football team
The 1941 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1941 college football season. In its second season under head coach Dukes Duford, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record (1–3–1 against MVC opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 150 to 100. The team played its home games at Walsh Stadium in St. Louis.


1941 Saint Louis Billikens football team
Quarterback Dick Weber was selected by the conference coaches as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team.


1941 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
The 1941 Saint Mary's Gaels football team was an American football team that represented Saint Mary's College of California during the 1941 college football season. They played their home games off campus at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. In their second and final season under head coach Red Strader, the Gaels compiled a 5–4 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 133 to 123.


1941 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1941 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State College during the 1941 college football season.


1941 San Diego State Aztecs football team
San Diego State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1941 team was led by head coach Leo B. Calland in his seventh season with the Aztecs. They played home games at two sites, Aztec Bowl and Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California. The Aztecs finished the season with six wins and four losses (6–4, 0–3 CCAA). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 105–87 for the season.


1941 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL
No San Diego State players were selected in the 1942 NFL Draft.


1941 San Francisco Dons football team
The 1941 San Francisco Dons football team was an American football team that represented the University of San Francisco as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Jeff Cravath, the Dons compiled a 6–4 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 206 to 193.


1941 San Francisco State Gaters football team
The 1941 San Francisco State Gaters football team represented San Francisco State College during the 1941 college football season.


1941 San Francisco State Gaters football team
San Francisco State was led by third-year coach Dick Boyle. They played home games at Roberts Field in San Francisco, California. The Gaters finished with a record of two wins, four losses and one tie (2–4–1). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 33–75.


1941 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1941 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State College during the 1941 college football season.


1941 San Jose State Spartans football team
San Jose State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Ben Winkelman, in his second year, and played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. They finished the season as co-champion of the CCAA, with a record of five wins, three losses and three ties (5–3–3, 2–0–1 CCAA).


1941 San Jose State Spartans football team
The team was due to play a benefit game against Hawaii in Honolulu on December 13, 1941, which was cancelled following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The team had already arrived in Hawaii, and players were assigned to police duty following the attack.


1941 San Jose State Spartans football team, Team players in the NFL
No San Jose State players were selected in the 1942 NFL Draft.


1941 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
The 1941 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team was an American football team that represented Santa Barbara State  College (now known as the University of California, Santa Barbara) as a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) during the 1941 college football season. In their first year under head coach Stan Williamson, the Gauchos compiled a 3–5–1 record (1–2 against CCAA opponents). The team played its home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California.


1941 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
Halfback/fullback Ernie Saenz was the team captain. Other key players included halfbacks Owen Van Buskirk and Hovis Bess, quarterback George James, fullback/guard Paul Siano, and centers Walt Ahlgren and Frankie Jones.


1941 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
A tenth game, scheduled for October 18 against the University of California Ramblers, was cancelled after the team physician found that nine of Santa Barbara's 24 players were unfit to play.


1941 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team
Due to World War II, this was the last year of competition for Santa Barbara until 1946.


1941 Santa Barbara State Gauchos football team, 1942 NFL Draft
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1942 NFL Draft.


1941 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1941 Santa Clara Broncos football team represented Santa Clara University as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Buck Shaw, the team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 170 to 103.


1941 Santa Clara Broncos football team
After winning its first four games, including shutout victories over California and Michigan State, Santa Clara rose to No. 8 in the AP Poll released on October 20. The team then fell from the rankings, losing three consecutive games against Oklahoma, Stanford, and Oregon. The team rebounded with victories over UCLA and rival Saint Mary's to conclude the season.


1941 Santos FC season
The 1941 season was the thirtieth season for Santos FC.


1941 Scarborough and Whitby by-election
The Scarborough and Whitby by-election of 1941 was held on 24 September 1941. The by-election was caused by the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Paul Latham, who had been charged with indecency. The Conservative candidate was Alexander Spearman, who had formerly contested Mansfield and Gorton unsuccessfully. In keeping with wartime practice, the by-election was not contested by the other parties in the coalition government, but Spearman was opposed by W. R. Hipwell, the editor of the tabloid newspaper Reveille, running as an 'independent Democrat'. Spearman won with 12,518 votes; Hipwell received 8,086. Thirty-six percent of the electorate cast their votes. Hipwell's campaign focused on complaints about the conditions of Services personnel. He ran again as an Independent Progressive in by-elections in Hampstead, Salisbury and The Hartlepools.


1941 South American Basketball Championship
The 1941 South American Basketball Championship was the 9th edition of this tournament. It was held in Mendoza, Argentina and won by the host, Argentina national basketball team. Six teams competed despite the World War that was then under way.


1941 South American Basketball Championship, Results
Each team played the other five teams once, for a total of five games played by each team and 15 overall in the tournament.


1941 South American Championship
The sixteenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile from February 2 to March 4.


1941 South American Championship
With the purpose of celebrating the fourth centenary of Santiago's foundation by Pedro de Valdivia, Chile requested to host this tournament's edition. Because of that, this edition is considered extra (no trophy was handed to the winners).


1941 South American Championship
The participating countries were Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.


1941 South American Championship, Final round
Each team played against each of the other teams. Two (2) points were awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.


1941 South American Championship squads
The following squads were named for the 1941 South American Championship that took place in Chile.


1941 South American Championships in Athletics
The 1941 South American Championships in Athletics were held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, between 26 April and 4 May.


1941 South Australian state election
State elections were held in South Australia on 29 March 1941. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Playford IV defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Robert Richards.


1941 South Australian state election, Background
Though the LCL was in minority government with 15 of 39 seats following the 1938 election, where 14 of 39 lower house MPs were elected as independents which as a grouping won more than either major party with 40 percent of the primary vote, the Playford LCL won a one-seat majority government following the 1941 election.


1941 South Australian state election, Background
Turnout crashed to a record-low 50 percent, triggering the government to institute compulsory voting from the 1944 election.


1941 South Australian state election, Results
South Australian state election, 29 March 1941House of Assembly << 1938–1944 >>


1941 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1941 South Carolina Gamecocks football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Carolina in the Southern Conference during the 1941 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Rex Enright, the Gamecocks compiled a 4–4–1 record (4–0–1 against conference opponents), finished second in the Southern Conference, and were outscored by a total of 103 to 100. The team played its home games at Carolina Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.


1941 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
Back Stan Stasica was selected by both the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP) as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Southern Conference football team.


1941 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The 1941 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1941 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Harry Gamage, the team compiled a 6–2 record (4–1 against NCC opponents), finished second in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 159 to 66.


1941 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.


1941 South Dakota Coyotes football team
Four South Dakota players were selected by the college sports editors to the 1941 All-North Central Conference football team: end Ole Solberg, tackle Ed Petranek, quarterback Bob Burns, and fullback Don Forney.


1941 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
The 1941 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State University in the North Central Conference during the 1941 college football season. In its first season under head coach Thurlo McCrady, the team compiled a 2–5 record and was outscored by a total of 131 to 32.


1941 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
Guard Leon Anderson was the team captain. He was also selected by the college sports editors to the 1941 All-North Central Conference football team.


1941 South Dorset by-election
The South Dorset by-election of 1941 was held on 22 February 1941. The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage by writ of acceleration of the incumbent Conservative MP, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, as Baron Cecil of Essendon the junior subsidiary title of The Marquessate of Salisbury then held by his father. It was won by the Conservative candidate Victor Montagu.


1941 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1941 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 27–March 1, 1941, at Thompson Gym in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Duke Blue Devils won their second Southern Conference title, led by head coach Eddie Cameron.


1941 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top eight finishers of the conference's fifteen members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.


1941 Southern Illinois Maroons football team
The 1941 Southern Illinois Maroons football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois Normal University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1941 college football season. Under third-year head coach Glenn Martin, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.


1941 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team
The 1941 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference during the 1941 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Johnny Cain, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record.


1941 Soviet Top League
The 1941 Soviet Top League was cancelled due to World War II. The last matches were played on June 24.


1941 Spring Hill Badgers football team
The 1941 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their third year under head coach Earle Smith, the team compiled a 2–6 record. This marked the final season for Spring Hill football as the College elected to abandon the program in January 1942.


1941 St. Louis Browns season
The 1941 St. Louis Browns season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Browns finishing 6th in the American League with a record of 70 wins and 84 losses.


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season
The 1941 season marked a change in management, as Luke Sewell was appointed the Browns new manager on June 5, 1941. While the St. Louis Cardinals drew over 600,000 fans, the Browns barely drew 175,000. The consensus was that St. Louis could not support two teams.


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season, Potential move to Los Angeles
The Browns ownership had reached an agreement to move the franchise to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce had guaranteed attendance of 500,000, a figure that the Browns had not seen since their 1924 season. The Browns would play in the stadium that was used by the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels. As part of the agreement to move to Los Angeles, the Browns would buy the stadium. It was expected that all Major League Baseball owners would approve of the move at the upcoming Winter Meetings. Before the scheduled meetings, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and California would stay closed to Major League Baseball for another decade.


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 St. Louis Browns season, Farm system
St. Joseph franchise transferred to Carthage and renamed, June 3, 1941


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1941 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 60th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 50th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 97–56 during the season and finished 2nd in the National League.


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1941 Stanford Indians football team
The 1941 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University during the 1941 college football season. Second-year head coach Clark Shaughnessy led the team to a 6–3 record. Before the season, Stanford, which the year prior had finished 10–0, was considered a favorite for the national championship, but three conference losses put it out of contention for a return to the Rose Bowl. After the season, Shaughnessy left Stanford to take over as head coach at the University of Maryland.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, Before the season
The Indians lost two stars from the previous season, right halfback Hugh Gallarneau and fullback Norm Standlee, to graduation, but returned quarterback Frankie Albert. Shaughnessy made the "pessimistic" projection that the team would drop at least two games. Before and early in the season, expectations were high for Stanford, and alongside Minnesota, the Indians were considered among the frontrunners for the national championship. Throughout the course of the season, however, injuries hindered the team.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, Season
Neither Stanford nor Minnesota were considered overly impressive in narrow victories in their season openers. The Indians edged Oregon, 19–15. The International News Service reported that Stanford "was not the polished, meticulous outfit it was when it trimmed Nebraska" in the previous season's Rose Bowl. Stanford then routed UCLA, 33–0. The following week, Oregon State snapped Stanford's 13-game winning streak. The Associated Press credited Beavers center Quentin Greenough with leading Oregon State's defensive effort, which blanked Stanford's potent T-formation, 10–0. Greenough was injured in the fourth quarter and had to be carried out by stretcher.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, Season
Against Washington, Stanford scored two second-quarter touchdowns and turned back multiple Huskies' drives. The Indians had two additional touchdowns negated by penalties, but won, 13–7. On a mud-logged field, Stanford back Pete Kmetovic scored five minutes into the game against Santa Clara. Later in the first quarter, Buck Fawcett broke free for an 84-yard touchdown run, and before halftime, Kmetovic returned an interception 40 yards to put the Indians back in position for a third score. Stanford's defense held Santa Clara at bay for the remainder of the game, and turned back two Bronco drives on the four-yard line for a final result of 27–7.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, Season
After defeating USC, 13–0, the Indians fell in their penultimate game against Washington State. The result tied Stanford, Washington, and Oregon State for first-place in the Pacific Coast Conference with two losses each, and all still vying for a berth in the Rose Bowl. Stanford's loss to underdogs California, 16–0, in the finale put them out of contention for the postseason game invitation. The Indians finished with a 6–3 record.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, After the season
In March 1942, Shaughnessy turned down a head coaching offer from Yale University, but said he was considering the same job at another Eastern school with little football tradition. A short time later, he resigned to accept the job at Maryland. According to Sports Illustrated in 1977, Shaughnessy's decision was based on his belief that Stanford would discontinue its football program during World War II.


1941 Stanford Indians football team, After the season
The 1942 NFL Draft was held on December 10, 1941. The following Indians were selected.


1941 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1941 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings. Boston would win the series 4–0 to win their third Stanley Cup.


1941 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
Boston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in a best-of-seven 4–3 to advance to the Finals. The Red Wings had to play two best-of three series; winning 2–1 against the New York Rangers, and 2–0 against the Chicago Black Hawks to advance to the Finals.


1941 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
In the third best-of-seven series, Boston became the first to sweep the series in four games.


1941 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1941 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins captain Dit Clapper by NHL President Frank Calder following the Bruins 3–1 win over the Red Wings in game four.


1941 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Bruins players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1941 Sugar Bowl
The 1941 Sugar Bowl featured the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers and the fifth-ranked Boston College Eagles, both with records of 10–0 and high-scoring offenses. It was played on Wednesday, January 1, 1941, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.


1941 Sugar Bowl
In the seventh Sugar Bowl, Tennessee scored the only points of the first half with a four-yard touchdown run by Van Thompson in the first quarter. After a scoreless second quarter, Boston College scored on a 13-yard touchdown run from Harry Connolly to tie the score at seven each. Tennessee answered with a two-yard touchdown run from Warren Buist for a 13–7 lead. Boston College scored on a one-yard rushing touchdown from Mike Holovak to tie the game at thirteen each.


1941 Sugar Bowl
In the fourth quarter, Tennessee's Bob Foxx missed a short field goal attempt with three minutes remaining, and BC took over on its own twenty. Quarterback Charlie O'Rourke led the Eagles on an eighty-yard drive, capped with his 24-yard touchdown run to give them a 19–13 win.


1941 Sun Bowl
The 1941 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Arizona State Bulldogs from Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe in Tempe, Arizona, and the Western Reserve Red Cats from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, known today as Case Western Reserve University.


1941 Sun Bowl, Background
The Bulldogs were champions of the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the second straight year. The Red Cats were 48–6–2 in the six-year tenure of Coach Bill Edwards, as they made their first ever bowl game. The Red Cats were champions of their regional Ohio league, Big Four Conference, six of the last seven seasons.


1941 Sun Bowl, Game summary
Steve Belichick (father of NFL head coach Bill Belichick), ran for the first touchdown of the game to give the Red Cats a 7–0 lead. Joe Hernandez threw a touchdown pass to Wayne Pitts to narrow the lead, though the extra point was no good. Arizona State would take the lead on a record setting run. Backed at one point into his endzone while rushing, Hascall Henshaw soon broke free and went 94 yards to the endzone, to give the Bulldogs a 13–7 lead at halftime. Henshaw's run was the school record for longest run from scrimmage until 1968.


1941 Sun Bowl, Game summary
The Red Cats jumped back into the lead when Willis Waggle recovered a blocked punt and returned it to the endzone for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Richard Booth and Johnny Ries both scored a rushing touchdown to make the score 26–13. The Bulldogs only seriously threatened again once, when they drove all the way to the 14-yard line of the Red Cats, but they failed to convert on 4th down at the 12, as the Reserve held on to win the game. In a losing effort, Henshaw had 147 yards rushing.


1941 Sun Bowl, Aftermath
Howell left the Bulldogs after the game to join the Navy after World War II started. It would not be until 1971 that the team, renamed the Sun Devils in 1946, won a bowl. Edwards left the team to coach the Detroit Lions, and later become the coach at Vanderbilt and Wittenberg. The Red Cats de-emphasized athletics during the 1950s and, in 1970, merged with their longtime rivals, the Case Rough Riders. The new team, the Case Western Reserve Spartans, became part of NCAA Division III when it was created in 1973.


1941 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 1941 was the first season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition was concluded on 26 October 1941 with the Final, held at Råsunda Stadium, Solna in Stockholms län. Helsingborgs IF won the final 3–1 against IK Sleipner before an attendance of 10,763 spectators.


1941 Svenska Cupen, Second round
The 8 matches in this round were played on 27 July 1941.


1941 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals
The 4 matches in this round were played between 13 August and 17 August 1941.


1941 Svenska Cupen, Semi-finals
The semi-finals in this round were played on 14 September 1941.


1941 Svenska Cupen, Final
The final was played on 26 October 1941 at the Råsunda Stadium.


1941 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1941 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the 19th season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. Sodertalje SK won the championship.


1941 Swiss alcohol referendum
A referendum on alcohol was held in Switzerland on 9 March 1941. Voters were asked whether they approved of a popular initiative for changing the alcohol order. The proposal was rejected by 59.8% of voters.


1941 Swiss alcohol referendum, Background
The referendum was a "process initiating decision", which required only a majority of the public vote, rather than both a majority of the public votes and a majority of cantons in favour.


1941 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1941 Syracuse Orangemen football team was an American football team that represented Syracuse University as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Ossie Solem, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 190 to 86. The team played its home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York.


1941 Syracuse Orangemen football team
Guard Dick Weber was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.


1941 São Paulo FC season
The 1941 football season was São Paulo's 12th season since club's existence.


1941 TANFL season
The 1941 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania, over fourteen roster rounds and two finals series matches between 10 May and 20 September 1941.


1941 TANFL season
This was the final season of pre-World War II football, which resulted in most clubs struggling to field full squads of players due to enlistment in the military forces. In the off-season the TANFL considered instituting a competition for players too young to serve in the military, but it did not pursue the idea.


1941 TANFL season
This was the final season of both Cananore and Lefroy Football Clubs, which both folded during the wartime cessation.


1941 TANFL season, Participating clubs, TANFL under-19s grand final
State Schools Old Boys Football Association (SSOBFA) (Saturday, 13 September 1941)


1941 TANFL season, Participating clubs, Lightning premiership matches
Note: All matches played in two short halves; a total of £132 was raised to help the war effort.


1941 TANFL season, Participating clubs, Lightning premiership matches
Red Cross & Comforts Fund Benefit (Queen of Sport) (Saturday, 6 September 1941)


1941 TANFL season, Participating clubs, Lightning premiership matches
Note: A total of £99 through gate takings was raised for the Queen of Sport war fund.


1941 TANFL season, 1941 TANFL ladder, Round 13
Note: Alf Sampson (New Town) kicked a TANFL record of 15 goals in this match, also a record 8 goals in the 4th Quarter.


1941 TANFL season, 1941 TANFL ladder, Round 14
Note: This match was Lefroy Football Club's final TANFL match.


1941 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1941 TCU Horned Frogs football team was an American football team that represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1941 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Dutch Meyer, the Horned Frogs compiled a 7–3–1 record (4–1–1 against conference opponents), lost to Georgia in the 1942 Orange Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 135. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1941 Tasmanian state election
The 1941 Tasmanian state election was held on 13 December 1941 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system — six members were elected from each of five electorates.


1941 Tasmanian state election
The Labor Party had won the 1937 election with a three-seat majority over the Nationalist Party. Labor leader and Premier Albert Ogilvie had died in office on 10 June 1939, and had been replaced by Edmund Dwyer-Gray and then Robert Cosgrove, who led Labor into the 1941 election. Sir Henry Baker continued to lead the Nationalists.


1941 Tasmanian state election
In spite of Cosgrove's refusal to placate the Labor Party's left wing, and criticism from Bill Morrow of the Launceston Trades Hall Council, Labor consolidated its substantial majority even further, winning a further two seats for a total of 20.


1941 Taça de Portugal Final
The 1941 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1940–41 Taça de Portugal, the 3rd season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 22 June 1941 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Belenenses and Sporting CP. Sporting CP defeated Belenenses 4–1 to claim their first Taça de Portugal.