1926 Villanova Wildcats football team

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1926 Villanova Wildcats football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainRichard Moynihan
Home stadium Shibe Park
Seasons
  1925
1927  
1926 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Lafayette   9 0 0
No. 10 Brown   9 0 1
NYU   8 1 0
No. 9 Army   7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson   7 1 1
Boston College   6 0 2
No. 10 Penn   7 1 1
Cornell   6 1 1
Princeton   5 1 1
Carnegie Tech   7 2 0
Springfield   6 2 0
Syracuse   7 2 1
Villanova   6 2 1
Colgate   5 2 2
Columbia   6 3 0
Pittsburgh   5 2 2
CCNY   5 3 0
Temple   5 3 0
Penn State   5 4 0
Tufts   4 4 0
Yale   4 4 0
Bucknell   4 5 1
Fordham   3 4 1
Harvard   3 5 0
Rutgers   3 6 0
Vermont   3 6 0
Drexel   2 5 0
Boston University   2 6 0
Lehigh   1 8 0
Franklin & Marshall   0 8 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1926 college football season. The Wildcats team captain was Richard Moynihan. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 25at Lebanon Valley Harrisburg, PA L 12–30
at Canisius Buffalo, NY T 14–14
October 16vs. Bucknell Wilkes-Barre, PA W 7–6 [2]
October 23 Dickinson
W 32–0
October 30at St. John's Jamaica, NY W 41–7
November 62:00 p.m.at Boston College L 7–19 [3]
November 13at John Carroll Cleveland, OH W 7–0
November 20 Saint Joseph's
  • Shibe Park
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 45–0
November 25at Muhlenberg Allentown, PA W 54–0

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References

  1. "2016 Villanova football Media Guide". Villanova.com. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. "Villanova Upsets Dope, Tops Bucknell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 17, 1926. p. S8 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Villanova Coach Hopes For Close Game Today". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 6, 1926. p. 10. Retrieved May 29, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. "Villanova State Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2017.