1936 Pittsburgh Panthers football team information
American college football season
1936Pittsburgh Panthers football
National champion (Boand, FR, Houlgate) Eastern champion Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 21–0 vs. Washington
Conference
Independent
Ranking
AP
No. 3
Record
8–1–1
Head coach
Jock Sutherland (13th season)
Offensive scheme
Single wing
Home stadium
Pitt Stadium
Seasons
← 1935
1937 →
1936 Eastern college football independents records
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t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Saint Anselm
–
6
–
0
–
1
No. 3 Pittsburgh
–
8
–
1
–
1
No. 10 Penn
–
7
–
1
–
0
No. 12 Yale
–
7
–
1
–
0
No. 13 Dartmouth
–
7
–
1
–
1
Franklin & Marshall
–
7
–
1
–
1
No. 14 Duquesne
–
8
–
2
–
0
Boston College
–
6
–
1
–
2
Boston University
–
5
–
1
–
2
No. 15 Fordham
–
5
–
1
–
2
Holy Cross
–
7
–
2
–
1
Villanova
–
7
–
2
–
1
Army
–
6
–
3
–
0
Colgate
–
6
–
3
–
0
Drexel
–
6
–
3
–
0
Temple
–
6
–
3
–
2
La Salle
–
6
–
3
–
1
Buffalo
–
5
–
3
–
0
Columbia
–
5
–
3
–
0
Princeton
–
4
–
2
–
2
Saint Vincent
–
5
–
3
–
0
NYU
–
5
–
3
–
1
Manhattan
–
6
–
4
–
0
Northeastern
–
5
–
4
–
0
Bucknell
–
4
–
4
–
1
CCNY
–
4
–
4
–
0
Tufts
–
3
–
3
–
1
Harvard
–
3
–
4
–
1
Cornell
–
3
–
5
–
0
Penn State
–
3
–
5
–
0
Westminster (PA)
–
2
–
4
–
1
Brown
–
3
–
7
–
0
Carnegie Tech
–
2
–
6
–
0
Massachusetts State
–
2
–
6
–
0
Providence
–
1
–
7
–
0
Syracuse
–
1
–
7
–
0
Vermont
–
1
–
8
–
0
Rankings from AP Poll
The 1936 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1936 college football season. In its 13th season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled a 8–1–1 record, shut out five of its ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 214 to 34.[1] The team played its home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh. The Panthers won the Rose Bowl and were selected national champion by the contemporary Boand math system and retroactively years later by the Football Researchers poll and Houlgate math system.[2][3][4][5]
^"Game-by-Game Results". 2008 Pitt Football Media Guide. University of Pittsburgh. p. 150. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
^2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records(PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2018. p. 112. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
^"College Football Data Warehouse, Yearly National Championship Selections". Archived from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
^ Written at Dallas, Texas. "Louisiana State Gets Foreman–Clark Trophy". The Capital Times. Madison, Wisconsin. Associated Press. January 10, 1937. Retrieved January 31, 2023. The Foreman and Clark trophy, emblematic of the National football championship, won by SMU in 1935, will be sent to LSU ... awarded the trophy for the past season under the ratings of Deke Houlgate, Los Angeles, grid statistician.
^Owen, Kimbrough, ed. (1937). "Athletics — Football". Gumbo 1937 (yearbook). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The Students of Louisiana State University. p. 206. Rated No. 1 team of the country by the Deke Houlgate system, the Tigers were presented with a beautiful national championship trophy by a Los Angeles firm.
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