1953 Penn Quakers football team

The 1953 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1953 college football season.[1] In head coach George Munger's final season at Penn, the Quakers compiled a 3–5–1 record, and were outscored 152 to 96 by their opponents. Although they finished with a losing record, Penn played an incredibly hard schedule for its level, opposing four different ranked teams in a row, and defeating #10 Navy 9 to 6. Their three losses against ranked teams were by a combined 24 points, including a ten-point loss against national champion Notre Dame.

1953 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
1953 record3–5–1
Head coachGeorge Munger (15th season)
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1953 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 14 Army      7 1 1
Harvard      6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 2 0
Yale      5 2 2
Penn State      6 3 0
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Boston College      5 3 1
Boston University      5 3 1
Syracuse      5 3 1
Princeton      5 4 0
Tufts      4 3 0
Cornell      4 3 2
Holy Cross      5 5 0
Temple      4 4 1
Colgate      3 4 2
Columbia      4 5 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Villanova      4 6 0
Drexel      2 3 1
Brown      3 5 1
Penn      3 5 1
Pittsburgh      3 5 1
Dartmouth      2 7 0
Buffalo      1 5 1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Vanderbilt
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–7
October 3Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–7
October 10CaliforniaNo. 20
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 0–40
October 17No. 17 Ohio State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 6–12
October 24No. 10 Navy
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 9–6
October 31No. 16 MichiganL 14–24
November 7No. 1 Notre Dame
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 20–2874,711
November 14Army
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
L 14–21
November 26Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 7–738,159[2]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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References

  1. "Pennsylvania Game by Game Results". web.archive.org. 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  2. Danzig, Allison (November 27, 1953). "Penn Ties Cornell as Munger Ends Career as Quakers' Football Coach". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. 31.
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