1934 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

1934 Pittsburgh Panthers football
National champion (Davis)
Eastern champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainCharles Hartwig
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
Seasons
← 1933
1935 →
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts     8 0 0
Trinity (CT)     7 0 0
La Salle     7 0 1
Washington College     5 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 1 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
No. 8 Colgate     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 0
No. 5 Princeton     7 1 0
Duquesne     8 2 0
Holy Cross     8 2 0
No. 15 Temple     7 1 2
No. 10 Syracuse     6 2 0
Bucknell     7 2 2
No. 14 Army     7 3 0
Northeastern     6 1 1
Rochester     5 2 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Saint Anselm     6 3 0
Amherst     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Massachusetts State     5 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Providence     4 3 0
Drexel     4 3 1
Boston College     5 4 0
Bates     3 3 1
Middlebury     3 3 1
Penn     4 4 0
Penn State     4 4 0
Williams     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     4 5 0
Villanova     3 4 2
NYU     3 4 1
Boston University     3 4 0
Colby     3 4 0
Springfield     2 3 3
Manhattan     3 5 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Vermont     2 4 2
Wesleyan     3 5 0
Brown     3 6 0
Geneva     2 5 2
Saint Joseph's     2 5 1
Cornell     2 5 0
Lafayette     2 6 0
Norwich     2 6 0
Bowdoin     0 6 1
Lowell Textile     0 7 1
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, coached by Jock Sutherland, represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1934 college football season. The Panthers finished the regular season with eight wins and a single loss (to Minnesota at home) and were considered the champions of the East.[1] According to a 1967 Sports Illustrated article,[2] Parke H. Davis, whose selections for 1869 to 1933 (all made in 1933) are recognized as "major" in the official NCAA football records book,[3] named Pitt as one of that season's national champions, along with Minnesota, six months after his death on June 5, 1934.[4] The article contained a "list of college football's mythical champions as selected by every recognized authority [sic] since 1924," which has served as the basis of the university's historical national championship claims, with Davis being the only major selector for three of them, including the posthumous 1934 pick[5] (post-1933 selections are not "major").

  1. ^ University of Pittsburgh 1975 football media guide. University of Pittsburgh. 1975. p. 54. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  2. ^ Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967). "This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 27, no. 11. Chicago, IL: Time, Inc. pp. 30–33. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  3. ^ 2012 NCAA Football Records (PDF). The National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2012. pp. 69–73. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  4. ^ "1934 National Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  5. ^ Borghetti, E.J.; Nestor, Mendy; Welsh, Celeste, eds. (2008). 2008 Pitt Football Media Guide (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh. p. 156. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2010.