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1926 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
Captain George Thayer
Home stadium Franklin Field
Seasons
←  1925
1927 →
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Lafayette     9 0 0
No. 10 Brown     9 0 1
NYU     8 1 0
No. 9 Army     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     7 1 1
Boston College     6 0 2
No. 10 Penn     7 1 1
Cornell     6 1 1
Princeton     5 1 1
Carnegie Tech     7 2 0
Springfield     6 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Villanova     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 2
Columbia     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     5 2 2
CCNY     5 3 0
Temple     5 3 0
Penn State     5 4 0
Tufts     4 4 0
Yale     4 4 0
Bucknell     4 5 1
Fordham     3 4 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Rutgers     3 6 0
Vermont     3 6 0
Drexel     2 5 0
Boston University     2 6 0
Lehigh     1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall     0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Lou Young, the Quakers compiled a 7–1–1 record, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 204 to 20. [1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Franklin & MarshallW 41–0
October 2 Johns Hopkins
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–7
October 9 Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 44–0
October 16 Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–040,000 [2]
October 23 Williams
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 36–0
October 30at IllinoisL 0–3
November 6 Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 3–055,000
November 13 Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 3–0
November 25 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA ( rivalry)
T 10–10}

References

  1. ^ "1926 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Westbrook Pegler (October 17, 1926). "Chicago Crumbles Before Penn, 27-0". Chicago Tribune. p. II-1 – via Newspapers.com.