1936 Duquesne Dukes football team

The 1936 Duquesne Dukes football team represented Duquesne University in the 1936 college football season. The Dukes were led by first-year head coach John "Clipper" Smith. An upset victory over cross-town rival and national powerhouse Pittsburgh thrust Duquesne into the national spotlight.[1] Another upset victory over previously undefeated Marquette[2] secured the team a spot in the 1937 Orange Bowl, where they defeated Mississippi State, 13–12. Duquesne was ranked 14th in the final poll of the AP Poll in its inaugural year.[3]

1936 Duquesne Dukes football
Orange Bowl champion
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 14
1936 record8–2
Head coach
1936 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W 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
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
Buffalo      5 3 0
Columbia      5 3 0
NYU      5 3 1
Princeton      4 2 2
Manhattan      6 4 0
La Salle      6 4 1
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
Brown      3 7 0
Carnegie Tech      2 6 0
Massachusetts State      2 6 0
Syracuse      1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
September 25WaynesburgPittsburgh, PAW 14–0
October 2Rice
W 14–0
October 9GenevaPittsburgh, PAW 33–0
October 17vs. Pittsburgh
W 7–0
October 23West Virginia WesleyanNo. 11Pittsburgh, PAL 0–2
October 30at DetroitL 7–14
November 6at Washington UniversityW 26–0
November 14at Carnegie Tech
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 13–0
November 21No. 7 MarquetteNo. 20Pittsburgh, PAW 13–0
January 1vs. Mississippi StateNo. 14
W 13–12
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. "Duquesne Upsets Pitt, 7-0". The Atlanta Constitution. October 18, 1936. p. 1B.
  2. "Duquesne Crushes Marquette Rose Bowl Hopes With Upset". The Washington Post. November 22, 1936. p. X1.
  3. "1936 Final AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  4. "Duquesne Routs Rice". The Washington Post. October 3, 1936. p. X18.
  5. "1936 Duquesne Dukes Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
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