1930 Penn Quakers football team

1930 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
CaptainDick Gentle
Home stadiumFranklin Field
Seasons
← 1929
1931 →
1930 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colgate   –   9 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 9 Army   –   9 – 1 – 1
No. 8 Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 1
St. John's   –   7 – 1 – 0
NYU   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   5 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   7 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   6 – 3 – 0
Duquesne   –   6 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 2 – 2
Yale   –   5 – 2 – 2
CCNY   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Drexel   –   6 – 3 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 3 – 1
Manhattan   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   3 – 4 – 2
Harvard   –   3 – 4 – 1
Providence   –   3 – 4 – 1
Princeton   –   1 – 5 – 1
Boston University   –   1 – 7 – 1
Vermont   –   1 – 7 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1930 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1930 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Lud Wray, the Quakers compiled a 5–4 record and outscored their opponents 225 to 145.[1] The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

Near-sighted guard Frank Yablonski wore a customized helmet which included optical lenses.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Swarthmore
W 63–040,000[3]
October 11Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–6[4]
October 18at Wisconsin
L 0–2718,175[5]
October 25Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–025,000[6]
November 1Kansas
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–662,000[7]
November 8Notre Dame
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 20–6075,657[8]
November 15Georgia Tech
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–7[9]
November 27Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
L 7–1365,000[10]
December 6Navy
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–2660,000[11]

References

  1. ^ "1930 Pennsylvania Quakers Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Penn man gets around near-sight". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. October 12, 1930. p. 11.
  3. ^ "Pennsylvania U. nips Swarthmore". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. October 4, 1930. Retrieved May 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn steam rollers little Virginia, 40–6". The Morning Call. October 12, 1930. Retrieved May 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Wisconsin humbles Old Penn, 27 to 0". The Pittsburgh Press. October 19, 1930. Retrieved May 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Pennsylvania Beats Lehigh Eleven, 40-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 26, 1930. p. S2.
  7. ^ "A bitter K.U. duel". The Kansas City Star. November 2, 1930. Retrieved May 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "80,000 See Penn Deluged, 60-20, By Notre Dame: Largest Crowd in Phila. Football History Turns Out to See Game; Traffic Tied in Knot". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 9, 1930. pp. 1, 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Penn turns back Georgia Tech, 34–7". The Morning Call. November 16, 1930. Retrieved May 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Bart Viviano star in Cornell victory". The Boston Globe. November 28, 1930. Retrieved May 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Navy fires big guns to win, 26 to 0". The Knoxville Journal. December 7, 1930. Retrieved May 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.