1930 Penn Quakers football team

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.

1930 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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

Near-sighted guard Frank Yablonski wore a customized helmet which included optical lenses.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	Swarthmore	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 63–0	40,000	^[3]
October 11	Virginia	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–6		^[4]
October 18	at Wisconsin	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	L 0–27	18,175	^[5]
October 25	Lehigh	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 40–0	25,000	^[6]
November 1	Kansas	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 21–6	62,000	^[7]
November 8	Notre Dame	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 20–60	75,657	^[8]
November 15	Georgia Tech	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 34–7		^[9]
November 27	Cornell	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 7–13	65,000	^[10]
December 6	Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–26	60,000	^[11]