1940 Penn Quakers football team

The 1940 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their third season under head coach George Munger, the Quakers compiled a 6–1–1 record, were ranked No. 14 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 247 to 79.

1940 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 14
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRay Frick
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1940 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College    11 0 0
Duquesne    7 1 0
No. 14 Penn    6 1 1
Penn State    6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham    7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell    6 2 0
La Salle    6 2 0
Princeton    5 2 1
Columbia    5 2 2
Brown    6 3 1
Bucknell    4 2 2
Boston University    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 0
Hofstra    4 3 0
Harvard    3 2 3
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Temple    4 4 1
Tufts    4 4 0
Vermont    4 4 0
Villanova    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 4 1
Syracuse    3 4 1
Buffalo    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Manhattan    3 6 0
Providence    3 6 0
NYU    2 7 0
Yale    1 7 0
Army    1 7 1
CCNY    1 5 1
Massachusetts State    1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Penn was ranked at No. 5 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.

The team played its home games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

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