1940 Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football team

1940 Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football
MOCC co-champion
ConferenceMichigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference
Record6–3 (3–1 MOCC)
Head coach
1940 Michigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Lawrence Tech + 3 1 06 3 0
Assumption (ON) + 3 1 0 ?  ?  ?
DeSales (OH) + 3 1 04 4 0
St. Mary's (MI) 1 3 02 3 0
Ferris Institute 0 4 01 7 0
  • + Conference co-champions

The 1940 Lawrence Tech Blue Devils football team represented the Lawrence Institute of Technology of Highland Park, Michigan, as a member of the Michigan-Ontario Collegiate Conference (MOCC) during the 1940 college football season. In their third year under head coach Don Ridler, the Blue Devils compiled a 6–3 record, tied for the MOCC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 147 to 96.

Five Lawrence Tech players were selected by conference coaches to the MOCC all-conference first team: end Fred Dupke; tackle Walter Nowacki; guard Al Schrecke; halfback Harry Awdey; and halfback Jackie Coogan.

Paul Ribbentrop, a cousin of Germany's Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, played at the tackle position for the 1930 Lawrence Tech team.