1924 Penn Quakers football team

The 1924 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1924 college football season. Playing its entire regular season schedule at home, the team 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]

1924 Penn Quakers football
National champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	9–1–1
Head coach	Lou Young (2nd season)
Captain	Rea McGraw
Home stadium	Franklin Field
Seasons ← 1923 1925 →

1924 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Ursinus	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–0	32,000	[3]
October 1	Drexel	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 52–0	10,000	[4]
October 4	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 26–0	40,000	[5]
October 11	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 25–7	40,000	[6]
October 18	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 10–7	45,000	[7]
October 25	Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–0	30,000	[8]
November 1	Lafayette	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 6–3	54,000	[9]
November 8	Georgetown	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 3–0	34,000	[10]
November 15	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	T 0–0	52,000	[11]
November 27	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 20–0	56,000	[12]
January 1, 1925	at California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	L 0–14	60,000	[13]

Roster

• Bennett, E
• Butler, G
• Coleman, G
• Clark Craig, E
• Dewhirst, T
• Douglas, HB
• Fairchild, E
• Fields, QB
• Flues, HB
• Hayes, E
• Kauffman, G
• Al Kreuz, FB
• Laird, QB
• Leth, HB
• Marous, T
• Ed McGinley, T
• Rea McGraw, HB
• Nicholas, FB
• Alton Papworth, G
• Robinson, C
• Scheerer, G
• Singer, E
• Sorenson, HB
• Snyder, C
• George Thayer, T
• Thomas, QB
• Joseph Putnam Willson, T