1924 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRea McGraw
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1924 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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

  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.
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