1941 Penn Quakers football team
American college football season
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The 1941 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season.
| 1941 Penn Quakers football | |
|---|---|
Ivy League champion | |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 15 |
| Record | 7–1 (5–0 Ivy) |
| Head coach |
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| Home stadium | Franklin Field |
In its fourth season under head coach George Munger, the team compiled a 7–1 record, won the Ivy League championship, outscored opponents by a total of 180 to 55, and was ranked No. 15 in the final 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
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 4 | Harvard | W 19–0 | [3] | |||||
| October 11 | at Yale | W 28–13 | 30,000 | [4] | ||||
| October 18 | at Princeton | No. 11 | W 23–0 | 31,500 | [5] | |||
| October 25 | Maryland* | No. 12 |
| W 55–6 | 40,000 | [6] | ||
| November 1 | at No. 11 Navy* | No. 8 |
| L 6–13 | 74,000 | [7] | ||
| November 8 | Columbia | No. 19 |
| W 19–16 | 50,000 | [8] | ||
| November 15 | No. 19 Army* | No. 14 |
| W 14–7 | 70,000 | [9] | ||
| November 22 | Cornell | No. 13 |
| W 16–0 | 74,000 | [10] | ||
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Rankings
| Week | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poll | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Final |
| AP | 11 | 12 | 8 (1) | 19 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 |