1926 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team

1926 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   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 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their first season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the Presidents compiled a 7–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 143 to 46. Their sole loss was by a 16-10 score against 1926 national champion Lafayette -- the narrowest margin of any team against Lafayette in its national championship season. In the penultimate game of the season, the Presidents played Pittsburgh to a scoreless tie before a crowd of 50,000 at Pitt Stadium. In a later ranking of 1926 college football teams by TipTop25, Washington & Jefferson was ranked No. 11.

Fullback Bill Amos was selected as a second-team All-American by the All-America Board, International News Service (INS), Billy Evans, and Walter Eckersall. He was also selected by the Associated Press (AP) as a first-team player on the 1926 All-Eastern football team.