1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainRalph Chase
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
Seasons
← 1924
1926 →
1925 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Dartmouth     8 0 0
Fordham     9 1 0
No. 4 Colgate     7 0 2
No. 10 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
No. 11 Lafayette     7 1 1
Springfield     6 1 1
Princeton     5 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Penn     7 2 0
Army     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
NYU     6 2 1
Villanova     6 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 1
Carnegie Tech     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
Bucknell     7 3 1
Columbia     6 3 1
Muhlenberg     6 3 1
Temple     5 2 2
Harvard     4 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     5 4 0
Brown     5 4 1
Penn State     4 4 1
Buffalo     3 4 1
St. John's     3 4 0
Lehigh     3 5 1
Vermont     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 0
Providence     2 7 0
Rutgers     2 7 0
Boston University     1 5 0
Manhattan     1 6 1
Tufts     1 6 0
Drexel     1 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its second season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 151 to 34.[1][2] The team was ranked No. 10 in the nation in the Dickinson System ratings released in January 1926.[3] This was the Panthers' first season at Pitt Stadium, and the team played eight of its nine games there.

Halfback Andy Gustafson scored the first touchdown at Pitt Stadium. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Tackle Ralph Chase was a consensus first-team player on the 1925 All-America team.[4]

  1. ^ "Record Book Pitt Football 2005". University of Pittsburgh. 2005. p. 163. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "1925 Pitt Panthers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. ^ "Dickison Football Rating System: Dartmouth Declared National Champion". The Pantagraph. January 8, 1926. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.