The 1941 Penn Quakers football team was an
American football team that represented the
University of Pennsylvania in the
Ivy League during the
1941 college football season
The 1941 college football regular season was the 73rd season of college football, intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast ...
. In its fourth season under head coach
George Munger, the team compiled a 7–1 record, won the Ivy League championship, outscored opponents by a total of 180 to 55, and was ranked No. 15 in the final
AP Poll. The team's lone setback was a 13–6 loss to
Navy.
Back Gene Davis was selected by the
Associated Press as a first-team player on the
1941 All-Eastern football team
The 1941 All-Eastern football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Eastern United States, Eastern teams at the conclusion of the 1941 college football season. The organizations selecting teams in 1941 ...
, and end Bernie Kuczynski was named to the second team.
Other key players included halfback
Bob Odell, fullback Bert Stiff, and Bob Brundage.
Munger was Penn's head coach for 16 years; he was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...
in 1976.
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