1934 Temple Owls football team

The 1934 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its second season under head coach Pop Warner, the team compiled a 7–0–2 record in the regular season before losing to Tulane in the 1935 Sugar Bowl. In all 10 games, the Owls outscored opponents by a total of 220 to 57.[1][2] The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.

1934 Temple Owls football
Sugar Bowl, L 14–20 vs. Tulane
ConferenceIndependent
1934 record7–1–2
Head coach
CaptainPeter Stevens
Home stadiumTemple Stadium
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Tufts   –    8 –0 –0
Trinity (CT)   –    7 –0 –0
La Salle   –    7 –0 –1
Franklin & Marshall   –    8 –1 –0
Pittsburgh   –    8 –1 –0
Colgate   –    7 –1 –0
Columbia   –    7 –1 –0
Princeton   –    7 –1 –0
Duquesne   –    8 –2 –0
Holy Cross   –    8 –2 –0
Temple   –    7 –1 –2
Syracuse   –    6 –2 –0
Bucknell   –    7 –2 –2
Army   –    7 –3 –0
Northeastern   –    6 –1 –1
Rochester   –    5 –2 –0
Dartmouth   –    6 –3 –0
Saint Anselm   –    6 –3 –0
Amherst   –    5 –3 –0
Fordham   –    5 –3 –0
Yale   –    5 –3 –0
Massachusetts State   –    5 –3 –1
CCNY   –    4 –3 –0
Providence   –    4 –3 –0
Drexel   –    4 –3 –1
Boston College   –    5 –4 –0
Bates   –    3 –3 –1
Middlebury   –    3 –3 –1
Penn   –    4 –4 –0
Penn State   –    4 –4 –0
Williams   –    4 –4 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –5 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –5 –0
Villanova   –    3 –4 –2
NYU   –    3 –4 –1
Boston University   –    3 –4 –0
Colby   –    3 –4 –0
Springfield (MA)   –    2 –3 –3
Manhattan   –    3 –5 –1
Harvard   –    3 –5 –0
Vermont   –    2 –4 –2
Wesleyan   –    3 –5 –0
Brown   –    3 –6 –0
Geneva   –    2 –5 –2
Saint Joseph's   –    2 –5 –1
Cornell   –    2 –5 –0
Lafayette   –    2 –6 –0
Norwich   –    2 –6 –0
Bowdoin   –    0 –6 –1
Lowell Textile   –    0 –7 –1

The team featured one of the best backfields in school history in "Dynamite Dave" Smukler, Glenn Frey, Danny Tester, and Wilfred H. Longsderff.[3] Smukler was selected by the Associated Press as the third-team fullback on the 1934 All-America college football team.[4]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29VPI
W 34–012,000[5]
October 6Texas A&M
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–6
October 13Indiana
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 6–618,000[6]
October 19West Virginia
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 28–1318,000[7]
October 27at Marquette
W 28–615,000[8]
November 3Holy Cross
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 14–030,000[9]
November 10Carnegie Tech
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 34–620,000[10]
November 24Villanova
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 22–040,000[11]
November 29Bucknell
  • Temple Stadium
  • Philadelphia, PA
T 0–030,000[12]
January 1, 1935at Tulane
L 14–2026,000[13]

References
  1. "1934 Temple Owls Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. "2019 Temple Owls Football Media Guide" (PDF). Temple University. p. 128. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  3. 2019 Temple Media Guide, p. 126.
  4. Alan Gould (December 1, 1934). "Hund, Lason on Associated Press Star Team". Rhinelander Daily News.
  5. Perry Lewis (September 30, 1934). "Temple Buries V.P.I. in Opener, 34-0: Second-Half Deluge Carries Temple To One-Sided Conquest of Gobbler Rivals". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S.
  6. "Owls Tie Indiana, 6-6: Owls and Foes Tally Scores on Long Runs". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1934. pp. 1S, 6S – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Temple Beats West Virginia 28 to 13". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1934. pp. 19, 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Fred Byrod (October 28, 1934). "Owls Trounce Marquette: Owls Ride Roughshod Over Marquette as 15,000 Watch". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Stan Baumgartner (November 4, 1934). "Owls Down Holy Cross". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Stan Baumgartner (November 11, 1934). "Temple Downs Carnegie: Mowrey Stars as Owls Land Before 20,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Stan Baumgartner (November 25, 1934). "Temple Tramples Villanova Rival, 22-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Bisons Tie Owls: Bucknell Line Stems Temple, Nips Smukler". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 30, 1934. pp. 19, 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Tulane Melts Owls' Lead To Win 20-14". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 2, 1935. pp. 13, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
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