1936 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

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. 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.

1936 Pittsburgh Panthers football
National champion (Boand, FR, Houlgate)
Eastern champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 21–0 vs. Washington
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 3
Record8–1–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle wing
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
1936 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
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