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1936 Penn Quakers football team

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1936 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 10
Record7–1
Head coach
CaptainLew Elverson
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1935
1937 →
1936 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Anselm     6 0 1
No. 3 Pittsburgh     8 1 1
No. 10 Penn     7 1 0
No. 12 Yale     7 1 0
No. 13 Dartmouth     7 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 1
No. 14 Duquesne     8 2 0
Boston College     6 1 2
Boston University     5 1 2
No. 15 Fordham     5 1 2
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
Drexel     6 3 0
Temple     6 3 2
La Salle     6 3 1
Buffalo     5 3 0
Columbia     5 3 0
Princeton     4 2 2
Saint Vincent     5 3 0
NYU     5 3 1
Manhattan     6 4 0
Northeastern     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
CCNY     4 4 0
Tufts     3 3 1
Harvard     3 4 1
Cornell     3 5 0
Penn State     3 5 0
Westminster (PA)     2 4 1
Brown     3 7 0
Carnegie Tech     2 6 0
Massachusetts State     2 6 0
Providence     1 7 0
Syracuse     1 7 0
Vermont     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1936 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1936 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Harvey Harman, the team compiled a 7–1 record, was ranked No. 10 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 166 to 44.[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3LafayetteW 35–0
October 10at YaleL 0–7
October 17Princeton
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 7–060,000[2]
October 24Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 48–6
October 31NavyNo. 20
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 16–6
November 7MichiganNo. 15
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–730,501
November 14Penn StateNo. 11
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 19–1240,000
November 26CornellNo. 13
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 14–6
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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  1. ^ "1936 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  2. ^ Perry Ellis (October 18, 1936). "60,000 See Penn Beat Princeton, 7 To 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.