1945 Penn Quakers football team

The 1945 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach George Munger, the team compiled a 6–2 record, was ranked No. 8 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 237 to 88.[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

1945 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 8
1945 record6–2
Head coachGeorge Munger (8th season)
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 Army      9 0 0
Franklin & Marshall      4 0 1
No. 20 Columbia      8 1 0
Temple      7 1 0
No. 16 Holy Cross      8 2 0
Tufts      4 1 0
No. 8 Penn      6 2 0
Yale      6 3 0
Massachusetts State      2 1 1
Harvard      5 3 0
Penn State      5 3 0
Cornell      5 4 0
Villanova      4 4 0
Boston College      3 4 0
Brown      3 4 1
Colgate      3 4 1
Princeton      2 3 2
NYU      3 4 0
Pittsburgh      3 7 0
Drexel      2 5 0
Dartmouth      1 6 1
Syracuse      1 6 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultSource
September 29BrownW 50–0
October 6Dartmouth
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 12–0
October 13North CarolinaNo. 11
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 49–0
October 27 No. 3 NavyNo. 7
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 7–14
November 3PrincetonNo. 7
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 28–0
November 10 No. 10 ColumbiaNo. 9
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 32–7
November 17 No. 1 ArmyNo. 6
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–61
November 24CornellNo. 11
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 59–6
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1945 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
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