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1924 Penn Quakers football team

1924 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRea McGraw
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1923
1925 →
1924 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
No. 3 Yale   –   6 – 0 – 2
No. 8 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
Springfield   –   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
Buffalo   –   1 – 7 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

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

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Ursinus
W 34–032,000[3]
October 1Drexel
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 52–010,000[4]
October 4Franklin & Marshall
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 26–040,000[5]
October 11Swarthmore
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 25–740,000[6]
October 18Columbia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 10–745,000[7]
October 25Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–030,000[8]
November 1Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 6–354,000[9]
November 8Georgetown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 3–034,000[10]
November 15Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–052,000[11]
November 27Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 20–056,000[12]
January 1, 1925at California
L 0–1460,000[13]

References

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  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.
  3. ^ "Penn grid warriors open season with victory over fighting Ursinus foes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 28, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn overwhelms Drexel Institute". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 2, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Blue and White holds Penn to 26 to 0 score". Sunday News. October 5, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Big Quakers roll over Garnet, 25–7". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 12, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "U. of P. halts Columbia's winning streak; 10 to 7, in sensational struggle". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 19, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Quakers prove too much for Virginia". Daily Press. October 26, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Penn defeats Lafayette in grim struggle". The Pittsburgh Press. November 2, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Georgetown holds Penn to 3–0 score". The Baltimore Sun. November 9, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Quakers-Lions battle to scoreless tie". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 16, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Pennsylvania triumphs oover Cornell eleven, 20 to 0". The Buffalo News. November 28, 1924. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Golden Bears triumph over Quakers, 14 to 0". The San Francisco Examiner. January 2, 1925. Retrieved October 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.