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]
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]
^Kordic, Gregory (2007). A Damn Good Yankee: Xen Scott and the Rise of the Crimson Tide. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. pp. 1–9. ISBN978-1-4259-6018-6.
^Fuzzy Woodruff. History of Southern Football. Vol. 2. p. 210.
