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1920 Penn Quakers football
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Record6–4
Head coach
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Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons← 19191921 →
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   8 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 0 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 0 – 2
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 2 – 1
New Hampshire   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 4 – 4
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 6 – 0

The 1920 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In their first season under head coach John Heisman, the Quakers compiled a 6–4 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 167 to 133. The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25DelawareW 35–0
October 2Bucknell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 7–0
October 9Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–0
October 16Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 7–0
October 23VMI
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–27
October 30Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–2830,000
November 6Pittsburgh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 21–2725,500
November 13Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–44
November 20at ColumbiaW 27–728,000
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 28–035,000

References

  1. "1920 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  2. "All Attendance Records Broken By Panthers in Games This Year". The Pittsburgh Post. November 26, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Columbia Soundly Trounced by Penn". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 21, 1920. p. RE1.
  4. M. N. Rawlins (November 26, 1920). "Penn Routs Cornell in Great Come Back, 28-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
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