1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1918 college football season. In a season cut short by the Spanish flu pandemic, coach Pop Warner led the Panthers in a schedule played all in one month, including a convincing victory in a highly publicized game over defending national champion and unscored-upon Georgia Tech. A highly controversial loss ended the season and snapped a 32-game Pitt winning streak, but the Panthers outscored opponents 140–16 in that short season and were retroactively selected as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and Houlgate System and as a co-national champion with Michigan by the National Championship Foundation.

1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–1
Head coach
  • Pop Warner (4th season)
Offensive schemeDouble wing
CaptainGeorge McLaren
Home stadiumForbes Field
1918 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell    6 0 0
Princeton    3 0 0
Holy Cross    2 0 0
Army    1 0 0
Buffalo    6 1 0
Columbia    5 1 0
Syracuse    5 1 0
Pittsburgh    4 1 0
Boston College    5 2 0
Rutgers    5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 1 0
Geneva    4 2 0
Swarthmore    4 2 0
Harvard    2 1 0
Fordham    4 2 1
Villanova    3 2 0
Penn    5 3 0
Dartmouth    3 3 0
Lehigh    4 4 0
Washington & Jefferson    2 2 0
New Hampshire    2 2 1
Lafayette    3 4 0
Brown    2 3 0
Tufts    2 3 0
Penn State    1 2 1
Vermont    0 1 1
Drexel    0 1 0
NYU    0 4 0
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