The Chicago Bears had the most touchdown returns by a team in a 1940 regular-season or postseason game, with 3 touchdown returns in the 1940 NFL championship game versus the Washington Redskins on December 8, 1940.
| TEAM | RET TD | DATE | TM | OPP | RESULT | KR | KR YDS | KR AVG | KR TD | PR | PR YDS | PR AVG | PR TD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Bears | 3 | 12/8/1940 |  CHB | @ |  WAS | W 73-0 | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 9.3 | 0 |
| 2 | | Bears | 2 | 12/1/1940 | CHB | vs |  CHC | W 31-23 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 |  | Lions | 2 | 10/5/1940 |  DET | vs | CHC | W 43-14 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 4 | | Bears | 2 | 9/22/1940 | CHB | @ |  GB | W 41-10 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 5 | | Bears | 1 | 11/24/1940 | CHB | vs |  CLE | W 47-25 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 6 |  | Packers | 1 | 11/24/1940 | GB | @ | DET | W 50-7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 7 |  | Giants | 1 | 11/24/1940 |  NYG | vs | WAS | W 21-7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 8 | Dodgers | 1 | 11/17/1940 | BKN | vs | CLE | W 29-14 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 9 |  | Rams | 1 | 11/10/1940 | CLE | @ | NYG | W 13-0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 10 |  | Cardinals | 1 | 10/27/1940 | CHC | vs | CLE | W 17-7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 11 | | Lions | 1 | 10/27/1940 | DET | vs | WAS | L 14-20 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 12 | | Packers | 1 | 10/27/1940 | GB | vs |  PIT | W 24-3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 13 | | Bears | 1 | 10/27/1940 | CHB | @ | NYG | W 37-21 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 14 | Dodgers | 1 | 10/26/1940 | BKN | @ |  PHI | W 21-7 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| 15 | | Lions | 1 | 10/20/1940 | DET | @ | GB | W 23-14 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 16 | | Rams | 1 | 10/20/1940 | CLE | vs | CHC | W 26-14 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 17 |  | Redskins | 1 | 10/6/1940 | WAS | @ | PIT | W 40-10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 18 | | Cardinals | 1 | 10/5/1940 | CHC | @ | DET | L 14-43 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| 19 | | Redskins | 1 | 9/22/1940 | WAS | vs | NYG | W 21-7 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| 20 |  | Eagles | 1 | 9/15/1940 | PHI | @ | GB | L 20-27 | 0 | 0 |
Results may be incomplete. StatMuse has complete team, game-level data for touchdown returns going back to the 1944 season.
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