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The 1939 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its second season under head coach George Munger, the team compiled a 4–4 record and was outscored by a total of 98 to 70.[1]

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Record4–4
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1939 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
CaptainHarlan Gustafson
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
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1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell – 8–0–0
No. 10 Duquesne – 8–0–1
Swarthmore – 6–0–1
Scranton – 7–0–2
Princeton – 7–1–0
La Salle – 6–1–1
Penn State – 5–1–2
No. 11 Boston College – 9–2–0
No. 17 Fordham – 6–2–0
Villanova – 6–2–0
Boston University – 5–3–0
Brown – 5–3–1
Dartmouth – 5–3–1
Hofstra – 4–3–0
NYU – 5–4–0
Pittsburgh – 5–4–0
Harvard – 4–4–0
Manhattan – 4–4–0
Penn – 4–4–0
Syracuse – 3–3–2
Vermont – 3–3–2
Tufts – 3–4–1
Yale – 3–4–1
Army – 3–4–2
Bucknell – 3–5–0
Carnegie Tech – 3–5–0
Providence – 3–5–0
Columbia – 2–4–2
Massachusetts State – 2–5–2
Colgate – 2–5–1
Temple – 2–7–0
CCNY – 1–7–0
Buffalo – 0–7–0
Rankings from AP Poll
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Penn was not ranked in the final AP poll, but it was ranked at No. 20 in the 1939 Williamson System ratings,[2] and at No. 48 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

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

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7LafayetteW 6–035,000[4]
October 14at YaleW 6–032,500[5]
October 21at HarvardW 22–730,000[6]
October 28 No. 13 North CarolinaNo. 16
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–3055,000[7]
November 4Navy
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–670,000[8]
November 11Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–1040,000
November 18Michigan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 17–1939,510[9]
November 25 No. 3 Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 0–2669,000[10]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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