1926 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team

1926 Carnegie Tech Tartans football
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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 Carnegie Tech Tartans football team represented the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—in the 1926 college football season.[1] The team defeated Notre Dame in a large upset.[2] The game, played at Forbes Field, was ranked the fourth-greatest upset in college football history by ESPN.[3]

References

  1. ^ "1926 Carnegie Mellon Tartans Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "Tech's Greatest Victory".
  3. ^ "Upset special: With Rockne gone, Irish took a Michigan-like tumble". ESPN. Retrieved February 18, 2008.


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