1941 Penn Quakers football team

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1941 Penn Quakers football
Ivy League champion
ConferenceIvy League
Ranking
APNo. 15
Record7–1 (5–0 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 0 0 7 1 0
Columbia 3 1 0 3 5 0
Harvard 4 2 0 5 2 1
Cornell 3 2 0 5 3 0
Dartmouth 2 2 0 5 4 0
Brown 1 2 0 5 4 0
Princeton 1 4 0 2 6 0
Yale 0 6 0 1 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1941 Penn Quakers football team was an

AP Poll. The team's lone setback was a 13–6 loss to Navy.[1]

Back Gene Davis was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team, and end Bernie Kuczynski was named to the second team.[2] Other key players included halfback Bob Odell, fullback Bert Stiff, and Bob Brundage.

Munger was Penn's head coach for 16 years; he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4HarvardW 19–0[3]
October 11at YaleW 28–1330,000[4]
October 18at
Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 23–031,500[5]
October 25Maryland*No. 12
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 55–640,000[6]
November 1at No. 11 Navy*No. 8
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–1374,000[7]
November 8ColumbiaNo. 19
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 19–1650,000[8]
November 15 No. 19 Army*No. 14
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–770,000[9]
November 22CornellNo. 13
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 16–074,000[10]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1941 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
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