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]

  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.