1951 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

1951 Pittsburgh Panthers football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–7
Head coach	Tom Hamilton (1st season)
Home stadium	Pitt Stadium (capacity: 56,500)

1951 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Bucknell			–					9	–	0	–	0
No. 6 Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	0
Susquehanna			–					6	–	0	–	0
Trenton State			–					6	–	0	–	0
Northeastern			–					6	–	0	–	1
No. 19 Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					6	–	2	–	0
Hofstra			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	0
No. 16 Boston University			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					6	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					5	–	3	–	0
Villanova			–					5	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					5	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					4	–	5	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					3	–	6	–	0
Yale			–					2	–	5	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					2	–	5	–	0
Army			–					2	–	7	–	0
Brown			–					2	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	7	–	0
Tufts			–					0	–	7	–	2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1951 college football season. The team compiled a 3–7 record under head coach Tom Hamilton.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Duke	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 14–19	20,000
October 6	at Indiana	Memorial Stadium Bloomington, IN	L 6–13
October 13	at Iowa	Iowa Stadium Iowa City, IA	L 17–34
October 20	Notre Dame	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 0–33	60,127
October 27	at No. 2 Michigan State	Macklin Stadium East Lansing, MI	L 26–53	42,163
November 3	at Rice	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 13–21
November 10	No. 20 Ohio State	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA	L 14–16	34,747
November 17	West Virginia	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (Backyard Brawl)	W 32–12
November 24	Penn State	Pitt Stadium Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	W 13–7	22,771
December 7	at Miami (FL)	Burdine Stadium Miami, FL	W 21–7
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game