1934 Temple Owls football team

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1934 Temple Owls football
Sugar Bowl, L 14–20 vs. Tulane
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–2
Head coach
CaptainPeter P. Stevens
Home stadiumTemple Stadium
Seasons
← 1933
1935 →
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts   –   8 – 0 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   7 – 0 – 0
La Salle   –   7 – 0 – 1
Washington College   –   5 – 0 – 1
Franklin & Marshall
   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 8 Colgate   –   7 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 5 Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Duquesne   –   8 – 2 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Temple   –   7 – 1 – 2
No. 10 Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   7 – 2 – 2
No. 14 Army   –   7 – 3 – 0
Northeastern   –   6 – 1 – 1
Rochester
   –   5 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 0
Saint Anselm
   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst
   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Massachusetts State   –   5 – 3 – 1
CCNY   –   4 – 3 – 0
Providence   –   4 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   4 – 3 – 1
Boston College   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bates
   –   3 – 3 – 1
Middlebury
   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 4 – 0
Williams   –   4 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 5 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   4 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 4 – 1
Boston University   –   3 – 4 – 0
Colby
   –   3 – 4 – 0
Springfield
   –   2 – 3 – 3
Manhattan   –   3 – 5 – 1
Harvard   –   3 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   2 – 4 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   3 – 6 – 0
Geneva
   –   2 – 5 – 2
Saint Joseph's
   –   2 – 5 – 1
Cornell   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 6 – 0
Norwich
   –   2 – 6 – 0
Bowdoin
   –   0 – 6 – 1
Lowell Textile
   –   0 – 7 – 1
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its second season under head coach Pop Warner, the team compiled an undefeated 7–0–2 record in the regular season, but lost 20–14 to host Tulane in the inaugural Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day in New Orleans. In their ten games, the Owls outscored their opponents 220 to 57;[1][2] and their eight home games were played at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.

This team featured one of the best backfields in program history in "Dynamite Dave" Smukler, Glenn Frey, Danny Tester, and Wilfred H. Longsderff.[3] Smukler was the third-team fullback on the Associated Press All-America team.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29VPI
W 34–012,000[5]
October 6Texas A&M
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–6
October 13Indiana
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–618,000[6]
October 19West Virginia
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 28–1318,000[7]
October 27at Marquette
W 28–615,000[8]
November 3Holy Cross
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–030,000[9]
November 10Carnegie Tech
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–620,000[10]
November 24Villanova
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–040,000[11]
November 29Bucknell
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–030,000[12]
January 1, 1935at Tulane
L 14–2026,000[13]

References

  1. ^ "1934 Temple Owls Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "2019 Temple Owls Football Media Guide" (PDF). Temple University. p. 128. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  3. ^ 2019 Temple Media Guide, p. 126.
  4. ^ Alan Gould (December 1, 1934). "Hund, Lason on Associated Press Star Team". Rhinelander Daily News.
  5. ^ Perry Lewis (September 30, 1934). "Temple Buries V.P.I. in Opener, 34-0: Second-Half Deluge Carries Temple To One-Sided Conquest of Gobbler Rivals". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S.
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