The 1940 season opened with a 19-0 win over Blue Ridge College. It would be the only meeting between the two schools as the small college in New Windsor, MD would close three years later due to financial difficulties. The next game marked the final meeting between West Chester and LaSalle. In ten meetings, LaSalle won nine of them, eight of them by shutout, including a 13-0 blanking of West Chester in 1940. The Rams would then top Pennsylvania Military College, now Widener, by a score of 9-0. The game against the Ithaca Blue Devils resulted in a 7-7 tie.
Fifty-five hundred watched a battle between the Albright Lions and the Purple and Gold. And it wasn't until the waning minutes of the contest when defensive end Dick Wisneski returned an interception to set up the game's lone touchdown. Edward Twardowski's PAT capped the 7-0 win. The Rams then got shut out at Waynesburg 20-0 in a muddy game in southwestern Pennsylvania. The following week, George "Butch" Clark and his classmates celebrated their final home game with an 18-0 shutout over Lock Haven. In the final game of the season, West Chester traveled to East Stroudsburg to hand the Warriors their only loss of the season by a score of 18-0.
Only one team scored in seven games as West Chester finished 5-2-1.
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