1928 Penn Quakers football team

The 1928 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Lou Young, the Quakers compiled an 8–1 record, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 271 to 26.^[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 29	Ursinus	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0
October 6	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 46–0
October 13	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 67–0
October 20	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 14–0	65,000
October 27	Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–6
November 3	at Chicago	Stagg Field Chicago, IL	W 20–13
November 10	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 7–0
November 17	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–7
November 29	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 49–0

^ "1928 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 5, 2020.

v t Penn Quakers football
Venues	Franklin Field (1895–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1917 Rose Bowl Cornell Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	"Fight on, Pennsylvania!" Marching band 1922 Alabama game
People	NFL draftees
Seasons	1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
National championship seasons in bold

1928 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Boston College		–		9	–	0	–	0
Villanova		–		7	–	0	–	1
Brown		–		8	–	1	–	0
Penn		–		8	–	1	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		7	–	1	–	0
Army		–		8	–	2	–	0
Drexel		–		8	–	2	–	0
NYU		–		8	–	2	–	0
Temple		–		7	–	1	–	2
Lafayette		–		6	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		5	–	1	–	2
CCNY		–		4	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
Tufts		–		5	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		5	–	2	–	3
Columbia		–		5	–	3	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	3	–	2
Cornell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse		–		4	–	4	–	1
Yale		–		4	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		4	–	5	–	0
Penn State		–		3	–	5	–	1
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		2	–	5	–	2
Vermont		–		1	–	7	–	2