1932 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

1932 Pittsburgh Panthers football
Rose Bowl, L 0–35 vs USC
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainPaul Reider
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
Seasons
← 1931
1933 →
1932 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Colgate     9 0 0
Brown     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 1
Pittsburgh     8 1 2
No. 8 Army     8 2 0
Drexel     5 1 1
Massachusetts State     7 2 0
Villanova     7 2 0
Duquesne     7 2 1
Fordham     6 2 0
Penn     6 2 0
Temple     5 1 2
Tufts     5 1 2
Cornell     5 2 1
Franklin & Marshall     4 2 1
Boston College     4 2 2
La Salle     4 2 2
Harvard     5 3 0
NYU     5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 3 1
Manhattan     6 3 2
Carnegie Tech     4 3 2
Bucknell     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 4 1
Princeton     2 2 3
Yale     2 2 3
Boston University     2 3 2
Vermont     2 4 1
CCNY     2 5 0
Penn State     2 5 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1932 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1932 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled an 8–1–2 record, shut out eight of its eleven opponents, suffered its sole loss to USC in the 1933 Rose Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 182 to 60.[1][2] The team played its home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh.

Although there was no AP Poll to determine a national champion in 1932, the Knute K. Rockne Trophy was presented at the end of the season to the team deemed to be the national champion using the Dickinson System, a rating system developed by Frank G. Dickinson, a professor of economics of the University of Illinois. Michigan won the Rockne Trophy. Pittsburgh was ranked third.

Halfback Warren Heller and end Joe Skladany were both consensus first-team selections to the 1932 All-America team,[3] and center Joseph Tormey earned third team United Press All-America honors.[4]

  1. ^ "Record Book Pitt Football 2005". University of Pittsburgh. 2005. p. 164. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "1932 Pitt Panthers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference upaa was invoked but never defined (see the help page).