1922 Alabama vs. Penn football game

1922 Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Penn Quakers football game

Alabama Crimson Tide	Penn Quakers
(2–2–1)	(5–0)
9	7
Head coach: Xen C. Scott	Head coach: John Heisman

	1	2	3	4	Total
Alabama	0	3	6	0	9
Penn	0	7	0	0	7

Date

November 4, 1922

Season

1922

Stadium

Franklin Field

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Referee

E. J. O'Brien

Attendance

20,000

The 1922 Alabama vs. Pennsylvania football game, played November 4, 1922, was a college football game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Penn Quakers. Beating one of the "big 4" Ivy League institutions in a major upset, it is considered one of the most important wins in Alabama football history,^[1]^[2] giving the team some of its first national recognition.^[3]^[4] One writer called the game the hardest fought battle on Penn's field in seven years.^[5]

Background

It was the second game at the newly renovated Franklin Field; the first an important victory for Penn over Navy.^[6]

John Heisman's Penn team was highly favored. Noted sports columnist Grantland Rice predicted a 21–0 Quaker victory.^[7]

Game details

Alabama quarterback Charles Bartlett set up the winning touchdown with a dash from the 35-yard line to the 6.^[5] College Football Hall of Fame inductee Pooley Hubert was a freshman at fullback.

Aftermath

After the game, when the news reached Tuscaloosa, "they started burning red fires and celebrating in a manner that Tuscaloosa had never seen before in its history."^[8]

Bartlett received Walter Camp's All-America honorable mention,^[9]

References

↑ "Alabama vs Pennsylvania".
↑ Bridget Heos. Alabama Football. p. 39.
↑ Lewis Bowling. Alabama Football Tales: More Than a Century of Crimson Tide Glory. p. 14.
↑ Eric Bain-Selbo. Game Day and God. p. 137.
1 2 "Pennsy Beaten By Alabama In Spirited Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1922. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Alabama's Eleven Humbles Old Penn". The New York Times. November 5, 1922. p. 25. Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
↑ Kordic, Gregory (2007). A Damn Good Yankee: Xen Scott and the Rise of the Crimson Tide. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. pp. 1–9. ISBN 978-1-4259-6018-6.
↑ Fuzzy Woodruff. History of Southern Football. 2. p. 210.
↑ "Camp's All America Stars Show Why They Are Winners; Have Brains, Power, Spirit". Harrisburg Telegraph. December 26, 1922. p. 15. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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