1940 Penn Quakers football team

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1940 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 14
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRay Frick
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College   –   11 – 0 – 0
Duquesne   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 14 Penn   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 1 – 1
No. 12 Fordham   –   7 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
La Salle   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Hofstra
   –   4 – 3 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 2 – 3
Dartmouth   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   3 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Manhattan   –   3 – 6 – 0
Providence   –   3 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 7 – 0
Yale   –   1 – 7 – 0
Army   –   1 – 7 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 5 – 1
Massachusetts State   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Penn Quakers football team was an

AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 247 to 79.[1]

Penn was ranked at No. 5 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Maryland
W 51–052,000[3]
October 12Yale
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–750,000[4]
October 19PrincetonNo. 9
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 46–2855,000[5]
October 26at No. 3 MichiganNo. 8
L 0–1559,913[6]
November 2 No. 14 NavyNo. 15
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–070,200[7]
November 9HarvardNo. 15
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
T 10–1035,000[8]
November 16Army
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 48–047,000[9]
November 23 No. 5 CornellNo. 12
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 22–2080,000[10]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1940 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
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