1926 NYU Violets football team

1926 NYU Violets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainFrank Briante
Home stadiumOhio Field
Yankee Stadium
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
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 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University (NYU) as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their second season under head coach Chick Meehan, the team compiled an 8–1 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 172 to 25. NYU was rated No. 21 in a retroactive ranking of the best college football teams of 1926. NYU back Ken Strong was later inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.