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1926 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainGeorge Thayer
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons← 19251927 →
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. The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

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