1926 Penn Quakers football team

1926 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–1–1
Head coach	Lou Young (4th season)
Captain	George Thayer
Home stadium	Franklin Field

1926 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 5 Lafayette			–					9	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Brown			–					9	–	0	–	1
NYU			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					7	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	1	–	1
Boston College			–					6	–	0	–	2
No. 10 Penn			–					7	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	1	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	1	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
Springfield			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	2
Columbia			–					6	–	3	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	2	–	2
CCNY			–					5	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					5	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	4	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	1
Fordham			–					3	–	4	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	6	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston University			–					2	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	8	–	1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Lou Young, the Quakers compiled a 7–1–1 record, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 204 to 20. The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Franklin & Marshall	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 41–0
October 2	Johns Hopkins	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–7
October 9	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 44–0
October 16	Chicago	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 27–0	40,000
October 23	Williams	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 36–0
October 30	at Illinois	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	L 0–3
November 6	Penn State	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 3–0	55,000
November 13	Columbia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 3–0
November 25	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	T 10–10