1924 Penn Quakers football team

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1924 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1924 record9–1–1
Head coach
  • Lou Young (2nd season)
CaptainRea McGraw
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1923
1925 →
1924 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth     7 0 1
Yale     6 0 2
Penn     9 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Bucknell     8 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Holy Cross     7 1 1
Army     5 1 2
Syracuse     8 2 1
Fordham     6 2 0
Lehigh     4 1 3
Boston College     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 1
Princeton     4 2 1
Columbia     5 3 1
Pittsburgh     5 3 1
NYU     4 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Brown     5 4 0
Carnegie Tech     5 4 0
Colgate     5 4 0
Cornell     4 4 0
Harvard     4 4 0
Tufts     3 4 2
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Villanova     2 5 1
Drexel     2 7 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Temple     1 4 0
Boston University     1 5 0

The 1924 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1924 college football season. The team was finished with a 9–1–1 record and was retroactively named as the 1924 national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 203 to 31.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 27Ursinus
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–0
October 1Drexel
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 52–0
October 4Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 26–0
October 11Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 25–7
October 18Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 10–7
October 25Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–0
November 1Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–3
November 8Georgetown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 3–034,000
November 15Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–052,000
November 27Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 20–0
January 1, 1925at California
  • California Memorial Stadium
  • Berkeley, CA
L 0–14

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  2. ^ 1924 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
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